For an informal discussion about this project contact any of the Project
Team:

*       Karen Peart - Project Manager. Tel: 01273 643304. Email Address:
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*       Dr Catherine Moriarty - Curator, Design History Research Centre.
Tel: 01273 643219. Email Address: [log in to unmask]
*       Sheridan Wiseman - Administrator. Tel: 01273 643304. Email Address:
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DESIGNING BRITAIN 1945 to 1975. THE VISUAL EXPERIENCE OF POST-WAR SOCIETY: A
CALL FOR TEACHERS IN THE ART, DESIGN AND COMMUNICATION SECTOR TO CONTRIBUTE
TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DNER (the Distributed National Electronic
Resource) FOR LEARNING AND TEACHING

First call for participation - An opportunity to develop a teaching and
E-learning resource for the 21st century.

This document calls for a proposal to author a module of an art and design
E-learning package. The background to the project is included alongside some
examples of potential bids, a detailed time-scale of the first project phase
and information about the DNER. 

Requirement

We require expressions of interest from HE academics and practitioners in
the study of Art, Design and Communication sector and are inviting those
with recognised experience and expertise in the field to submit proposals.

Each proposal should identify and describe an E-learning and teaching
resource module that will utilise visual resources from the design archives
held at the University of Brighton in the Design History Research Centre and
complementary collections elsewhere.

The emphasis of this project is on content creation, in that the selection
of the materials should be determined by specific teaching and learning
objectives in Art, Design and Communication. The presentation of modules
will be innovative and should enhance existing teaching and learning
processes. An expression of interest should be submitted to the Project Team
by 11/05/2001.

Each proposal will be considered and eight will be selected. The Authors
whose proposals are successful will create the content and will be active
members of the project. This will entail identification of the subject,
specification of material then authorship  and production. 

Each Author selected will be paid £1,500 in addition to the costs of
travelling to meetings and workshops held in Brighton.

Further information

For further details about the archive refer to the Design History Research
Centre Archive web site: http://www.brighton.ac.uk/descoarchive/
For further details about the project refer to the project web page:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/programmes/projects/designbrit/

Contact

For an informal discussion about this project please don't hesitate to
contact any of the Project Team
*       Karen Peart - Project Manager. Tel: 01273 643304. Email Address:
[log in to unmask]
*       Dr Catherine Moriarty - Curator, Design History Research Centre.
Tel: 01273 643219. Email Address: [log in to unmask]
*       Sheridan Wiseman - Administrator. Tel: 01273 643304. Email Address:
[log in to unmask]

Address for Proposals/correspondence:

Project Bids for Designing Britain
Design History Research Centre
Faculty of Arts and Architecture
University of Brighton
68 Grand Parade
Brighton BN2 2JY

Background

This project is managed by the Faculty of Arts and Architecture at the
University of Brighton. The objective of this project is to enhance course
curriculum and learning experiences by taking advantage of new technologies
in electronic publishing.

The end product will be a web-based product that will consist of eight
modules containing about 100 images aimed at and delivered to the HE
community. Each module will vary depending upon the subject.

Examples of potential modules

*       Prototypes. A module comprising images of prototype furniture and
product design from the Design Council Archive that would be used to teach
second year Three-dimensional design for Production BA students, as part of
their course on prototyping and simulation skills for professional practice.

*       Print/Weave/Knit. Possibly three modules to be used in first year
Fashion Textiles Design BA teaching. Using photographic samples from the
Design Council Archive and swatches from the Arts Institute at Bournemouth,
these packs would explore the characteristics inherent to each textile
category, including an illustrated glossary of textile terms, exercises in
fabric identification, famous examples, and further reading. The aim would
be to assist first year students before choosing their specialist subject.

*       Image and Word. A module for first year Editorial Photography BA
students that explains the interactive relationship between image and word.
The Arts Institute at Bournemouth has significant holdings of newspapers,
magazines and printed ephemera as does the Design Council Archive and the
Henrion Archive. The material would be used as a source for teaching,
restructured for group projects, or take the form of an on-line tutorial for
independent study.

*       Design a Pavilion/Design and Museum Display. A project for Interior
Architecture BA students where they are assigned the task of creating a
pavilion at an international exhibition or a museum display. Using various
images of gallery interiors, the Gardner Archive and the Design Council
Archive, students would be asked to explain their own problem-solving
strategies with an understanding of how designers reached solutions in the
past. Many graduates from this degree go on to work in exhibition and
theatre design.

Timing

The project runs for 18 months and has full funding. There will be three
main phases:
*       Definition (by June 2001): Scope; Infrastructure; Commissioning work
*       Production (by end October 2001): Scripting of content; Presentation
*       Publishing (by end August 2002): Pilot; Delivery; Findings published
at conference.

The key time-scales that will affect Authors in the Definition and
Production phases of the project are as follows:
*       Call for proposals ñ 28/03/01
*       Submission of proposals/expressions of interest ñ 11/05/01
*       Approval, communication with Authors and contracts signed ñ
01/06/01
*       Workshop on digital resources ñ 08/06/01
*       Initial discussion and liaison with Archive staff ñ  15/06/01
*       Selection and first production of images, text, documentation,
meta-data ñ 28/09/01

Thereafter Authors will be involved in editing the content for the delivery
of the final product, and subsequent evaluation.

Stakeholders and experts

This is a collaborative effort that will bring together pedagogic,
curatorial and technical expertise in the production and delivery of digital
resources. Advice and support will be available throughout. The audience for
this project will be the HE community.

This project is one of many supported by the DNER (The Distributed National
Electronic Resource). The DNER is the networked environment that provides
users in further and higher education with a range of digital collections
and advisory services to support their use. Its cornerstone is the
development of a managed and mediated environment for accessing quality
assured information resources on the Internet. These resources include
textbooks, journals, monographs, theses, abstracts, manuscripts, maps, music
scores, still images, geo-spatial images and other kinds of data, as well as
moving picture and sound collections.

The DNER can be thought of as having two components:

*       The underlying information environment: how to find, access and
disseminate quality information resources.
*       A collection of information resources (referred to as "content") of
particular value to the research and education community. 

The stakeholders in the DNER are the UK HE and FE education community, other
users of the UK networks such as the National Grid for Learning, the New
Library Network, the National Electronic Library for Health and the emerging
network of information providers, including libraries, museums, data
archives and galleries; the international academic and learning community
and data creators and publishers. 

For information please refer to the DNER web
site:http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/background


STATEMENT OF INTEREST

Please describe the project that you would like to develop:

Name
Institution
Phone/fax/email
Post held
Courses taught (and to whom)

Module idea and description (not more than 300 words)


Do you use electronic resources in your teaching already? If so which ones.

How did you hear about this project? 

Any other comments.