Dear Halldór, 






The link works ok for me … It will take you to the main school web site.
From here you will need to navigate to each of the Product Innovation and
Visual Communication Design links. You can access them directly here:
> http://www.unisa.edu.au/artarchitecturedesign/industrialdesign/study.asp
> http://www.unisa.edu.au/artarchitecturedesign/visualcommunication/study.asp
Without a doubt, across all Australian universities, there is a clear and
present push towards increasing student numbers and maximising the
deployment of available resources; both in terms of facilities and
academics. UniSA is no different, but I think the change that has been
enacted within the two programs was born more out of a desire to support
trans specializations across design–focused disciplines than from a will to
rationalise expenditure. Peter Schumacher and Veronika Kelly, the two
program directors responsible for instigating these changes, could speak
more eloquently and precisely on their motivations for the changes I am
sure.
Probably a better example, that follows the social advocacy role that I
believe you are fostering in your own work, would be Tony Fry's latest
project called the 'Brisbane Hothouse'. It aims to bring together thinkers
to rigorously examine redirective change via thinking, talking, reflecting,
planning and acting. In Fry's words: "The objective of this process is for
participants to leave with a selection of projects, design actions, new
practices and political strategies – informed by their own context – that
can form the basis of collaborations formed at the event. The most critical
aspect of the HotHouse is not what happens at it but what occurs after it’s
over! At its most ambitious, the event aims to create an ‘educational
institution without a place’ (an ‘Urmadic Academy’) that can structure and
facilitate the exchange of knowledge, projects and research programs."
You can't get any more counter–silo than this ; )
You can check out Fry's 'Brisbane Hothouse' project here:
> http://s-architecture.blogspot.com/2011/02/s-architecture-fwd-call-for-express
> ions.html 





Regards, 


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        University of South Australia
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On 9/03/11 9:52 PM, "Halldor Gislason" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hey Chris, thanks for this info, - but
> 
> 1
> I am not able to open the link. Can you check if it is the right one?
> 
> 2
> Question: Is this done because of pressure to teach more students for less
> money? Or to support trans specialization dialogue?
> 
> 3
> I can give you an example of this from a course that I ran in the Iceland
> Academy of Arts (http://lhi.is/). You can see the course run and reasons here:
> http://icelanddialogue.wordpress.com/
> 
> Dóri
> 
> Professor Halldór Gíslason,
> Oslo National Academy of the Arts,
> Oslo, Maputo, Reykjavik,
> Personal Website: http://www.dorigislason.com/
> Work Website:
> http://www.khiodesign.com/
> Academy Website:
> http://www.khio.no/
> 
> On Mar 9, 2011, at 7:34 AM, Chris Brisbin wrote:
> 
>>  Dear Mike, 
>>  
>>  
>>  
>>  
>>  
>>  
>>  My colleagues in the School of Art, Architecture and Design have redesigned
>>  several of their programs to reflect a broadening of the scope of the
>>  various professions that they are responsible for transitioning students
>>  into; such as, Graphic Illustration is now 'Visual Communication Design',
>>  and Industrial Design is now 'Product Innovation'.
>>  
>>  I am not sure how much of this really has to do with 'getting rid of the old
>>  vocational silos' though. I think it has more to do with an inherent desire
>>  to freshen the curriculum and to more accurately reflect to the world
>>  (including potential students) what they believe they are actually teaching
>>  students to be and do. The 'old' vocations are still there, its just that
>>  the skills, knowledge and critical aptitude that is required from our
>>  students in order to respond to pressing global challenges, such as climate
>>  change etc., are effecting a gradual‹but definitive‹shift in the
>>  construction of the silo itself. In other words, I don't think its just
>>  superficial re-branding, I think it reflects a shift in the nature of what
>>  advocacy roles academe and practice alike believe future students will be
>>  required to perform within various mutations of the silo archetype.
>>  
>>  You can refer to more detail on the change in nomenclature in the School of
>>  Art, Architecture and Design here:
>>  http://www.unisa.edu.au/artarchitecturedesign/default.asp
>>  
>>  
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>>  
>>  Regards, 
>>  
>>  
>>         d r   |   c h r i s   |   b r i s b I n
>>         B.Des.Studies__B.Arch.(hons)__PhD
>>  
>>         Lecturer in Architecture
>>  
>>  p :    sAAD <http://www.unisa.edu.au/artarchitecturedesign/default.asp>
>>  (School of Art, Architecture and Design)
>>         University of South Australia
>>         City West Campus Adelaide 5000
>>         CRICOS No. 00121B
>>  
>>  e :     [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>>  t :     +61 8 8302 0282
>>  f :     +61 8 8302 0211
>>  
>>  lnx :  ATCH <http://www.uq.edu.au/atch/>  Research Group UQ
>>         academia.edu <http://unisa.academia.edu/ChrisBrisbin>  web site
>>         s-architecture <http://s-architecture.blogspot.com/>  web blog
>>         downloadable e-print
>>  <http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Brisbin,_Christopher.html>
>>  publications
>>  
>>>>  
>>  
>>  
>>  
>>  
>>  From: Mike McAuley <[log in to unmask]
>>  <mailto:[log in to unmask]> >
>>  Reply-To: Mike McAuley <[log in to unmask]
>>  <mailto:[log in to unmask]> >
>>  Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 14:04:37 +1300
>>  To: "[log in to unmask]
>>  <mailto:[log in to unmask]> " <[log in to unmask]
>>  <mailto:[log in to unmask]> >
>>  Subject: innovative curriculum design: getting rid of the old vocational
>>  silos
>>  
>>  I would be interested to know of any institutions which have recently
>>  re-designed their curriculums driven by a desire to get rid of the
>>  old vocational terms such as graphic design, illustration etc.
>>  
>>  
>>  
>>  
>>  Dr. MIKE MCAULEY
>>  SENIOR LECTURER, SUBJECT DIRECTOR,
>>  ILLUSTRATION
>>  Institute of Communication Design
>>  College of Creative Arts
>>  Massey University
>>  Museum Building
>>  Buckle Street
>>  Wellington
>>  http://creative.massey.ac.nz <http://creative.massey.ac.nz/>
>>  ________________________________
>>  
>>  (04) 801 5799 ext 62461
>>  (04 027 357 8799
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