As a small contribution to the expensive business of being a student, the
Research into Practice conference publishes its proceedings free online.
http://www.artdes.herts.ac.uk/res2prac/
Unfortunately we are temporarily off-line but hope to be making our
contribution again soon.
Michael Biggs
At 08:03 12/09/2002 -0600, Rosan Chow wrote:
>Dear all
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>speaking as a student, i would like to share with you some of my thoughts for
>building a field. i would like to suggest that you view my comments as raw
>materials one can gather during user research... some humble individual ideas.
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>1 i think it is very important that there is REDUCED FEES for students for all
>conferences. i believe that there was none for the 'common ground' conference.
>was it 250 british pounds? that is $500 canadian dollars. an average graduate
>student makes $ 1, 200 a month. that is not to mention other students in
>economically disadvantaged countries.
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>i would like to extend the above practical suggestion to a conceptual issue:
>we must NOT let the horrible human condition: the 'have not' to prevent people
>from participating in building a field.
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>2 my perception is that we don't have enough experienced
>researcher-teachers in
>the design field. maybe we can develop INTERNET COURSES/seminars that
>students
>from all over the world can attend. although distance learning will never
>be as
>good as the 'real' ones, but when done well, it is a lot better than
>nothing. i
>dare to speak from my own experiences that my intellectual growth in the past
>three years was to a large extent attributed to internet conversations
>with very
>insightful and generous individuals.
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>i would like to extend the above practical suggestion to a conceptual issue:
>i suggest that design departments at various universities SHARE HUMAN
>RESOURCES.
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>3 to support the former two suggestions, it is important to reward individuals
>and institutions for their efforts. instead of counting how many published
>papers
>or design commissions people generate, we can FORMALIZE 'COMMUNITY SERVICE' as
>part of the responsibilities of educators and educational instituations.
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>i would like to extend the above practical suggestion to a conceptual issue:
>when building a field, instead of trying to work around existing systems,
>we may
>like to RE-WORK the systems so that we can build a field that we dream of
>and in
>the mean time have some meaningful influences on outside our field.
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>best regards, rosan
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>Rosan Chow
>Sessional Instructor
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>University of Alberta
>Department of Art and Design
>3-98 Fine Arts Building
>Edmonton, Alberta
>Canada T6G 2C9
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>Tel:1-780-492-7877
>Fax: 1-780-492-7870
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