Dear All PhD-Design Colleagues,
thanks for Marcio for informing all about Cumulus = Cumulus International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media -
www.cumulusassociation.org
What is Cumulus?
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Cumulus is a platform for partnership in art, design and media education and research.
Cumulus was founded as a network in 1990 by the Royal College of Art in London and the University of Art and Design Helsinki (Finland).
It consisted in the next phase of six universities from Europe and was happy to e.g. to be supported by European Union Erasmus programme of the time.
Over the years the interest towards Cumulus grew and some Erasmus networks merged with Cumulus. In 2001, Cumulus started to be together
in the form of an association but in a very unique way - trying to avoid too much administration and letting people to gather together under its umbrella the way people want.
Today Cumulus is 176 institutional members from 44 countries. Cumulus does not seek members for money and is fully non-profit. It can reach all its close to 200.000 students and
many thousands of people working as academics and staff.
What Cumulus does?
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It is an umbrella for people to be together like this PhD-list. As a standard form for Cumulus members to share, transfer knowledge and best plus worst practices is to meet
during the conferences under Cumulus umbrella hosted by its member institutions two times a year. Some of them are more towards research, some of them less but almost all do include a
research part in the programme and through a CfP. There are also content specific Cumulus working groups - like Visual Communication, Sustainability Working group, Leadership and Strategy and so on... and they do meet normally during the conferences.
Cumulus members can also organize events marketed through Cumulus site. Also, other events that are organized under Cumulus umbrella are done - like
in 2012 alongside the two main conferences; Helsinki Finland World Capital Year event in May 2012 and Santiago Chile November 2012, there will be one with Hermitage and Cumulus March 2012 and October with the Russian Designers Association and Cumulus and so on. Cumulus has also job section in its site and is open what the members do need. Partners do many collaborate among themselves as they wish - e.g. mobility, projects together, joint research projects etc. Cumulus also organizes exhibitions as some examples in Louvre Paris 2002 and 2010 in Shanghai celebrating Cumulus 20 years anniversary being part of World Expo 2010 year. Cumulus Executive Board is also very active by organizing events and activities under the Cumulus umbrella.
Cumulus has partnerships for instance with the American designer´s association AIGA and some more in the professional field are to come; European League of the Institutes of the Arts, Cumulus is recognized by Unesco, partnership with US accreditation institution NASAD, With the European Union OHIM agency in Alicante Spain responsible for registering trademarks and designs, Desis Network for Social Innovation and Sustainability, Cumulus has declared Kyoto Design Declaration in 2008 that Cumulus Green is an award prized every now and then and many more good things to serve the whole of art, design and media. The secretariat of Cumulus is according to the decision of Cumulus hosted by its member institution and it is taken care by the Aalto University School of Art and Design in Finland.
Go and see - www.cumulusassociation.org
Next main conferences in 2012
Helsinki Finland 23-26 May 2012 Aalto University School of Art and Design - Northern World Mandate - Cumulushelsinki2012.org/
Santiago Chile 14 - 17 November 2012 Santiago, Chile Instituto Profesional DuocUC http://www.duoc.cl/cumulus2012/
If you get interested just please email to us;
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Christian Guellerin; [log in to unmask] - Cumulus President Nantes France
Best,
Eija & Justyna
Eija Salmi (mrs)
Director International Affairs Aalto University School of Art and Design
Secretary General
Cumulus International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media
www.cumulusassociation.org
http://taik.aalto.fi/en/
www.aalto.fi
Mailing address: PO BOX 31000, 00076 Aalto, Finland
Visiting address: Hämeentie 135 C 000560 Helsinki
tel. +358947030534
fax. + 358947030595
"Cumulus is the only global association representing art, design and media education in the world. It was founded in 1990 and has today 176 prominent members from 44 countries".
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From: PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Marcio Dupont
Sent: 30. lokakuuta 2011 2:10
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Subject: Cumulus - global association to serve art and design education and research
Hi friends
Just found this interesting association, Cumulus, the only global association to serve art and design education and research.
http://www.cumulusassociation.org/home
Best!
*Marcio Dupont Caballero de Carranza*
Industrial Designer and Sustainability Analyst
Linkedin <http://br.linkedin.com/in/marciodupont>
Sustainable Design Blog <http://marciodupont.blogspot.com/>
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