Week 55: Monday 20th January [12:00]
= Proposal Submission
Please upload your Project Proposal document to the following OneDrive folder by 12:00 GMT (noon) on Monday 20th January.
Your Project Proposal document should articulate
- the artistic or cultural value of your intended project
- the community who will be engaged and how (in-person and/or online)
- and possible opportunities to reflectively conduct a self-assessment.
It should be no more than three pages, and contain a maximum of 500 words, plus images/figures and a bibliography.
If you are having any issue with this submission, please contact Elliott Burns via email (e.burns@csm.arts.ac.uk) or via Teams chat.
Ahead of the coming Wednesday session please take time to look through each other’s project proposals to prepare for giving peer-to-peer feedback.
UNIT6 understanding:
- Who is your intercultural prac ce for?
- What is your intercultural prac ce about? What is your specific and burgeoning area of
exper se? - Who will be interested in your intercultural prac ce and why?
- What sites does your prac ce span and how does a sense of site complement your ongoing
work on context? - How is your prac ce engaging with intercultural and other trends and developments? What
makes relevant – now?
- publicly facing project
- In this twenty-credits, you will iden fy your audience and plan, realise and reflect on your project.
- IRL and URL sites
- How it’s produced, organised, experienced, archived;
- In Unit 6 you will share the work you have in any forms that you deem appropriate to the content.
- cri cally reflect on your prac ce and share this through the genres of proposal and report writing
CREATE A PROPOSAL AND A REPORT!!!
communicate, exchange, and debate ideas within a global framework
accessible to its audience(s) and reach beyond the culture producer’s immediate geographic and socioeconomic range.
UNI DOESNT HAVE direct access to MY project, SO THEY WILL ASSES THROUGH MY REPORT.
place or site your creative and cultural work into the world.
how this project propels your future work.
Unit 6 should anticipate Unit 7
As publics engage with your work, new insights and questions will emerge about the place, situation,
context, scope, response and so on. Use these to propel your research by envisioning a daisy chain of
curiosity linking Units 6 and 7.
SUBMITTION:
Assessment requires you to produce an evalua ve illustrated report in the form of an image/
word document. (See notes above under The Rhythm and Expecta ons of Unit 6.)
Submission date and me: 12:00 pm (noon) on 17 March 2025 (Moodle Upload)
As the course handbook does not specify a length for your submission, the following are some
guidelines in keeping with the expecta ons of a twenty-credit unit: —
Focus on quality instead of quan ty by limi ng your report to 3500 – 4000 words, exclusive
of cap ons, bibliography, text in charts, appendixes and links to online documents that serve
a supplementary role.
Moving image, audio or other me-based work, this should not exceed 5 mins total.
Include cap oned images: photographs, drawings, graphics, etc. and reference these in your
text.
PROPOSAL:
Evolving Intercultural Practice: IVE built a foundation in Units 1–5, and now it’s time to refine and share your work.
Animating Questions: These guide your project’s purpose, audience, relevance, and engagement.
Public-Facing Project: Create work that resonates in real and/or digital public spaces.
Post-Internet Practice: Consider the evolving nature of culture and its online/physical intersections.
UNESCO Intercultural Competences: Develop a project that fosters intercultural understanding and reaches beyond your immediate community.
Long-Term Vision: Use this project to pave the way for your post-graduation goals.
IDEAS:
Interactive Art Installation:
Concept: Create an installation that showcases female community in Cypriot culture, combining physical artifacts with digital projections or soundscapes.
Public Engagement: Invite audiences to share their own stories of community, bridging cultural connections.
Digital Exhibition and Workshop Series:
Concept: Develop an online gallery featuring your work on themes of light, shadow, and female relationships, paired with a workshop on intercultural storytelling or illustration.
Public Engagement: Use interactive elements like live Q&A, forums, or user-submitted artwork.
Community Collaboration Project:
Concept: Collaborate with women in your community (or globally online) to co-create a series of artworks, reflecting shared or contrasting cultural values.
Public Engagement: Document the process through video, social media, or a blog. Host a public unveiling or online launch.
Mapping Project:
Concept: Create a visual map that blends Cypriot cultural symbols with universal ideas of home, belonging, and female kinship. Use AR (augmented reality) to add interactive elements.
Public Engagement: Share the project digitally and allow audiences to contribute their own “markers” of community.
got the idea!