20 Mar 2007

The Collabor8 Project (C8) [Australia/China collaborative online art and design projects]
College of Fine Arts (COFA), The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Self-description: "The Omnium (TM) Research Group (Australia) at the College of Fine Arts (UNSW) is pleased to announce 'The COLLABOR8 Project' (C8). COLLABOR8 is an eight-week long [20 April 2008 - 20 June 2008 - ed.] fully online education non-profit initiative that aims to establish a basis for collaborative online art and design projects between universities in Australia and China. [...] COLLABOR8 will consist of online lectures, discussions and forums for design students to discuss their ideas and produce design concepts and viable design solutions. The students will be placed in teams and their object will be to find new ways of working together online respecting each other's cultural background and meeting the challenges of working in different geographic locations to create solutions to a design brief. COLLABOR8 joins the Omnium Research Group to stage the third in a series of free, non-profit, international Creative Waves* projects for students and their teachers. COLLABOR8 is produced, directed and funded by The Omnium Research Group at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales (Australia). The project was conceived in collaboration with the School of Design East China Normal University, Shanghai (PRChina). [...]
The project is totally free of charge for those students selected to take part."
Site contents: Intro; Project; People; FAQ, Apply, Contact Us, Download Media Kit.
[A bi-lingual (EN, CN) web site - ed.]
URL http://creativewaves.omnium.net.au/c8
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Ian McArthur (online--at--cofa.unsw.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
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