Background
Cumulus provides it members a wide, dynamic and flexible international context for dialogue and innovation since 1990. Cumulus promotes and empowers the talent of the next generation of creative and responsible professionals. It facilitates exchange of knowledge, sharing best practices and research results in our fields. Cumulus encourages collaboration with industry, professional bodies, enterprises, civil society and government and NGO´s to address the contemporary challenges through art, design and media. Cumulus has around 286 institutional members from 56 countries, it has a wide network of partnership and can serve a minimum of 800.000 students and several thousands of staff members.

Cumulus is endorsed by UNESCO. It has partnerships with institutions like AIGA, ADADA, ADR, BEDA, DESIS Network, DINZ, DOGA, Design Research Society, CILECT, EIDD, IASDR, ico-D, iF Germany, INDEX, IxDA, Japan Institute of Design Promotion (JDP), MEDEA, National Innovation Foundation of India, Honeybee Network, Sristi and GIAN, NASAD, Pro Arte, RSA Royal Society of Arts, ELIA, Alvar Aalto Foundation, OHIM of the European Union, Pro Arte; World Design Organization and many to come serving the members and ensuring transfer of knowledge and sharing practices with stakeholders close to the areas Cumulus represent.

Cumulus supports three (3) publications, one per one Cumulus Working Group.
The aim is to provide a transparent and collaborative platform for sharing the knowledge by the working groups and an opportunity for art, design and media educators and researchers to reach a wider network. Each publication will get a grant of max 10.000 € by Cumulus.

Content
The topic and content is to be defined by the proposing group. The idea is to address an issue relevant to education and research in our areas. The aim is to share knowledge and facilitate discussion and development, not only in education and research but with any other stakeholders, corporate or public within the fields where Cumulusians work and present. Anybody with an idea for publication, but not knowing the working group it would belong to, please contact the Cumulus secretariat.

Conditions
· The bid is binding.
· The publication exists in the name of Cumulus International Association of Universities and Colleges in Art, Design and Media.
· The call aims at a number of Cumulus member institutions existing as Cumulus Working Groups (CWG) to publish together. Cumulus Working Groups are the ones that e.g. hold their meetings in connection with the two annual Cumulus main conferences.
· The design of the publication follows the Cumulus Think Tank Guidelines, please consult the secretariat.
· The publication will get an ISBN number and any equivalent organized by the Cumulus secretariat unless otherwise negotiated.
· The language of the publication is English.
· The working group must show the plan of reviewing the quality of the publication.
· Every CWG has a lead person. The group works out the application with this lead person who is the key contact for the Cumulus secretariat in publishing and the editing process unless otherwise defined later or in the application by the group.
· A third party or any further one in publishing can be any existing member, partner of Cumulus or any other. Regarding any partner, the secretariat must be consulted and an agreement may be signed between the party and Cumulus.
· Cumulus will have the right to publish as well as to use the photos or equivalent visual material in the publication organized by the writer or the group. The key contact person coordinates with the Cumulus secretariat that each author signs a contract on the publishing including the right given to Cumulus to use the visual material.
· The group will work out additional financial support for the publication. If any contract necessary with any other party concerning the financial support for the publication; the contract must be negotiated with the assistance of the Cumulus secretariat and may be signed in the name of Cumulus by the secretariat.
· The Cumulus grant payment is negotiable with the secretariat. The aim is the final payment will be done after the publication is finished.
· The applications will be approved by the Cumulus Executive Board that may further work out a scientific committee in order to assure the scientific level of the publication with the working group selected. The board may also set up an additional person or a team to further ensure the quality or any equivalent for the success of the publication.
· The publication will be marketed through the Cumulus channels including website and social media.
· The aim is the publication is a free downloadable one through the Cumulus site. If any other source of sharing the publication, it must be negotiated in collaboration with the Cumulus secretariat. Each group also understands depending on the nature of the publication, there can be also a shortened or the original version of the publication downloadable through the Cumulus App. The aim is to publish it also as a Cumulus App, it is to be negotiated with the Cumulus secretariat.
· Cumulus keeps the right on the opportunity to sell the publication. If so, it is negotiated by the Cumulus secretariat with the group.
· The publication must be published at the latest within one year from the decision of the Cumulus Executive Board. If any delays, the group must contact the secretariat and may get extension time for the publication upon approval by the board or the grant may expire.
· A group cannot get funding for the group publication in the two consecutive calls.
· Each president and CEB can support max one (1) publication/working group.
· The board takes the right to refine the process in this call, if necessary after the Cumulus Rovaniemi General Assembly on 30 May 2019.

Selection
The Cumulus Executive Board will select the granted publications in the board meeting after the call is closed. In the selection, the board will consider how challenging the content is and how it reflects current issues, as well as the relevance of the publication to the Cumulus family and the global community around it. The board may negotiate with the applicants regarding the application before its final decision and consult other stakeholders before its decision. The board is entitled to a decision not to fund one group consecutively. The board will make its decision in its first meeting in 2020.

How to present the application?

The Cumulus Working group to apply must do the application in English:
1. Name of the Cumulus Working Group applying, key contact person and the list of the group members by name and the institution. (Contact information: Address, email, phone/skype/whatsapp etc.)
2. Information in detail of role of the group members defining their duties in the publishing process
3. Information of any other partners as in item 1. and 2. as above.
4. a. content of the publication (general description of the idea) b. authors known when the application is left in c. draft of the name of the publication etc. equivalent d. any need known for the Creative Commons licenses and equivalent.
5. The proposal for the scientific committee/quality assurance by the Working Group.
6. Publishing plan (from the idea to the publication, time etc.)
7. Budget of the publication & estimate of, in-kind cost incl. (budget can exceed the grant, if so, an additional funding plan to be shown. Additional funding, source: Name of the institution, address, email, phone etc. and amount.)
8. Any other information

The deadline for the applications is 30 November 2019 by email to; Justyna Molik; justyna.molik@aalto.fi
Further information: Eija Salmi eija.salmi@aalto.fi and Justyna Molik justyna.molik@aalto.fi

Please check on our Cumulus Think Tank series at http://sites.aalto.fi/cumulus/cumulus-think-tank-series-available-to-all/

Deadline for Submission(s): August 26, 2019

We have now launched the final call of the ReVeDA Survey for the publication about the Research in Design, Art, and Media through the Cumulus community. We started working on the ambitious project of understanding what it means to do Research in Art, Design and Media nowadays, collecting and sharing the practices, the methodologies and the topics within Cumulus community through the ReVeDA Working Group.

We were inspired by the idea that sharing not only the results but also the processes used by each researcher, could be a fundamental starting point to reflect on the present and future developments of our discipline. In order to visualize what are the researches carried on by the Cumulus Schools and Universities, we have created an online free questionnaire where each researcher or group of researchers, from anywhere in the world, can describe the principals features of its work.

The results of the Survey will be the object of the first part of contents within the Cumulus Think Tank ReVeDA publication about the Research on Art, Design, and Media. The name of the Cumulus member universities that will contribute to the success of the survey will be published as well. We will be grateful if you want to take part in the survey and spread the word among your scientific community.

Join the call and be part of the Cumulus international map of research!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfXmUaNYBbmKEjbD_r9G9wFtfyB9oqB6WxIOow0RmUkNSCbgg/viewform

Deadline for the submission(s) 8 October 2018

Dear Cumulus Member,

we are pleased to announce that we are launching the survey for the publication of ReVeDA, Cumulus Working Group on Research Vectors in Art, Design and Media. For those who are not aware of it, the project was born with the intent to develop a map of research on Design and the Art and Media by the Cumulus family. The topic of the publication is the Research in Design, Art and Media, in all its declinations: The fields of interest, the actors, the financing, the tools, the methodologies, the problems and the opportunities.

Starting from the activities of the ReVeDa Cumulus Working Group sessions during the Cumulus Conferences during the last three years, the aim of publication on Design Research is to give a picture of the state of the art in research in Design and Art and Media, taken in its interdisciplinary connections and applications. The ReVeDA Cumulus Think Tank publication is an open space of debate about the research experiences within the Cumulus members and partners, out of any fixed taxonomy and methodological dogma.

While developing an open and dynamic map of the research in art, design and media, this Cumulus Think Tank publication focuses on sharing different research experiences in order to display:
– The best practices;
– The approaches and methods;
– The international partners and the design research societies and networks.

The publication is released with an ISBN number provided by Cumulus, and it is organized in two (2) parts:
– the first one shows the results of the survey on research developed by the Cumulus family.*
– The second part of the book will be a collection of papers, reflections, interviews about the topic of Design, Art and Media Research.**

Now as a first step for the publication, we would like to invite you to take part in the survey, that is open to all researchers in the field of Design and the Arts: professors, Ph.D. doctors, post-doctors, who are members of the Cumulus association.

Each member university of Cumulus can present at most ten (10) research projects (please, note, one questionnaire/reply describes only one research project).

The aim of the questionnaire, as we told before, is to develop a map of findings how research on design and art, design, and media research throughout the whole membership of Cumulus is constituted, how it exists, what is its impact etc.

If you liked to take part in the outcomes of this publication, we are pleased to invite you to answer the questionnaire describing your research. We shall publish the names of the Cumulus member universities that will contribute to the success of the survey in the publication. By participating in the survey, the participant automatically agree to the use of the data for the scientific purposes and to be published only in this ReVeDA Cumulus Think Tank publication.

The deadline for the submission(s) is 8 October 2018.

Please to find here below the link to the questionnaire:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfXmUaNYBbmKEjbD_r9G9wFtfyB9oqB6WxIOow0RmUkNSCbgg/viewform?usp=sf_link
For your information, the activities time schedule for the publication of the ReVeDA Cumulus Think Tank publication are:

The launch of the Survey: 3rdof September 2018*
Deadline of the Survey: 8thof October 2018
Showing of map results: 31stof October to 3rdof November 2018 – Cumulus Conference Wuxi in China; http://sites.aalto.fi/cumulus/cumulus-conference-wuxi-2018-diffused-transition-and-design-opportunities/

The launch of the Call for Papers: 30thof November 2018**
Deadline of the Call for Papers: 31st January 2019

Publication outcome presentation: 29-31 May 2019 (Cumulus Rovaniemi Conference in Finland)

Any question you may have, please feel free to contact us.
Thanks for your contribution, glad to hear from you.

The ReVeDA Team
Professor Loredana Di Lucchio loredana.dilucchio@uniroma1.it
Professor Lorenzo Imbesi lorenzo.imbesi@uniroma1.it
PhD candidate Marta Laureti marta.laureti@uniroma1.it

The series (ISSN (Print) 2490-0478, ISSN (Electronic) 2490-0486) consists of the following publications:

1. Changing Paradigms: Designing for a Sustainable Future
Editors: Peter Stebbing, Ursula Tischner
Published by Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Finland
Printed by Vedanta Arts, Mumbai, India
ISBN (print): 978-952-60-0070-1
ISBN (pdf): 978-952-60-0071-8

2. Bearers of Internationalisation
Editors: Aparajita Dutta (chief editor), Maria Aasma, Yolande Kolstee
Published by Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Finland
Printed by Libertas Pascal, Utrecht, the Netherlands 2016
ISBN (print): 978-952-60-0074-9
ISBN (pdf): 978-952-60-0075-66

3. Soft Landing
Editors: Nithikul Nimkulrat, Ulla Ræbild, Anna Piper
Published by Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Finland
Printed by AS Pakett, Tallinn, Estonia
978-952-60-0083-1 (print)
978-952-60-0084-8 (pdf)
978-952-60-0085-5 (app)
978-952-60-0086-2 (ePub)

In addition, please check on this publication, which proceeded the series

DESIGNER: Careers and Professionalization
Authors: Christian Guellerin, Nicolas Minvielle, Marie deJacquelot
ISBN: 978-2-8041-6015-9
ISSN: 2032-6572
Publisher: De Boeck www.deboeck.com

With 62 interviews and portraits of international designers and professional analyses of the skills and profiles of designers trained in design schools within the Cumulus network, this book presents the opportunities open to designers.

Background

Cumulus provides it members a wide, dynamic and flexible international context for dialogue and innovation since 1990. Cumulus promotes and empowers the talent of the next generation of creative and responsible professionals. It facilitates exchange of knowledge, sharing best practices and research results in our fields. Cumulus encourages collaboration with industry, professional bodies, enterprises, civil society and government and NGO´s to address the contemporary challenges through art, design and media. Cumulus has around 286 institutional members from 56 countries, it has a wide network of partnership and can serve a minimum of 800.000 students and several thousands of staff members.

Cumulus is endorsed by UNESCO. It has partnerships with institutions like AIGA, ADADA, ADR, BEDA, DESIS Network, DINZ, DOGA, Design Research Society, CILECT, EIDD, IASDR, ico-D, iF Germany, INDEX, IxDA, Japan Institute of Design Promotion (JDP), MEDEA, National Innovation Foundation of India, Honeybee Network, Sristi and GIAN, NASAD, Pro Arte, RSA Royal Society of Arts, ELIA, Alvar Aalto Foundation, OHIM of the European Union, Pro Arte and many to come serving the members and ensuring transfer of knowledge and sharing practises with stakeholders close to the areas Cumulus represent.

Cumulus supports three (3) publications, one per one Cumulus Working Group.

The aim is to provide a transparent and collaborative platform for sharing the knowledge by the working groups and an opportunity for art, design and media educators and researchers to reach a wider network. Each publication will get a grant of max 10.000 € by Cumulus.

Content

The topic and content is to be defined by the proposing group.

The idea is to address an issue relevant to education and research in our areas. The aim is to share knowledge and facilitate discussion and development, not only in education and research but with any other stakeholders, corporate or public within the fields where Cumulusians work and present. Anybody with an idea for publication, but not knowing the working group it would belong to, please contact the Cumulus secretariat.

Conditions

· The bid is binding.
· The publication exists in the name of Cumulus International Association of Universities and Colleges in Art, Design and Media.
· The call aims at a number of Cumulus member institutions existing as Cumulus Working Groups (CWG) to publish together. Cumulus Working Groups are the ones that e.g. hold their meetings in connection with the two annual Cumulus main conferences.
· The design of the publication follows the Cumulus Think Tank Guidelines, please consult the secretariat.
· The publication will get an ISBN number and any equivalent organized by the Cumulus secretariat unless otherwise negotiated.
· The language of the publication is English.
· The working group must show the plan of reviewing the quality of the publication.
· Every CWG has a lead person. The group works out the application with this lead person who is the key contact for the Cumulus secretariat in publishing and the editing process unless otherwise defined later or in the application by the group.
· A third party or any further one in publishing can be any existing member, partner of Cumulus or any other. Regarding any partner, the secretariat must be consulted and an agreement may be signed between the party and Cumulus.
· Cumulus will have the right to publish as well as to use the photos or equivalent visual material in the publication organized by the writer or the group. The key contact person coordinates with the Cumulus secretariat that each author signs a contract on the publishing including the right given to Cumulus to use the visual material.
· The group will work out additional financial support for the publication. If any contract necessary with any other party concerning the financial support for the publication; the contract must be negotiated with the assistance of the Cumulus secretariat and may be signed in the name of Cumulus by the secretariat.
· The Cumulus grant payment is negotiable with the secretariat. The aim is the final payment will be done after the publication is finished.
· The applications will be approved by the Cumulus Executive Board that may further work out a scientific committee in order to assure the scientific level of the publication with the working group selected. The board may also set up an additional person or a team to further ensure the quality or any equivalent for the success of the publication.
· The publication will be marketed through the Cumulus website and social media.
· The aim is the publication is a free downloadable through the Cumulus site. If any other source of sharing the publication, it must be negotiated in collaboration with the Cumulus secretariat. Each group also understands depending on the nature of the publication, there can be a also shortened or the original version of the publication downloadable through the Cumulus App. The aim is to publish it also as a Cumulus App, it is to be negotiated with the Cumulus secretariat.
· Cumulus keeps the right on the opportunity to sell the publication. If so, it is negotiated by the Cumulus secretariat with the group.
· The publication must be published at the latest within one year from the decision of the Cumulus Executive Board. If any delays, the group must contact the secretariat and may get extension time for the publication upon approval by the board or the grant may expire.
· A group cannot get funding for the group publication in the two consecutive calls.
· Each president and CEB can support max one (1) publication/working group.
· The board takes the right to refine the process in this call, if necessary after Paris General Assembly on 13 April 2018.

Selection

The Cumulus Executive Board will select the granted publications in the board meeting after the call is closed. In the selection, the board will consider how challenging the content is and how it reflects current issues, as well as the relevance of the publication to the Cumulus family and the global community around it. The board may negotiate with the applicants regarding the application before its final decision and consult other stakeholders before its decision. The board is entitled to a decision not to fund one group consecutively. The board will meet and decide in November 2018 during the time of Cumulus Wuxi P.R. China conference end 31 Oct – 2 Nov 2018.

How to present the application?

The Cumulus Working group to apply must do the application in English:
1. Name of the Cumulus Working Group applying, key contact person and the list of the group members by name and the institution. (Contact information: Address, email, phone/skype/whatsapp etc.)
2. Information in detail of role of the group members defining their duties in the publishing process
3. Information of any other partners as in item 1. and 2. as above.
4. a. content of the publication (general description of the idea)
b. authors known when the application is left in
c. draft of the name of the publication etc. equivalent
d. any need known for the Creative Commons licenses and equivalent.
5. The proposal for the scientific committee/quality assurance by the Working Group.
6. Publishing plan (from the idea to the publication, time etc.)
7. Budget of the publication & estimate of, in-kind cost incl. (budget can exceed the grant, if so, an additional funding plan to be shown. Additional funding, source: Name of the institution, address, email, phone etc. and amount.)
8. Any other information

The deadline for the applications is 15 October 2018 by email to; Justyna Molik; justyna.molik@aalto.fi

Further information: Eija Salmi eija.salmi@aalto.fi and Justyna Molik justyna.molik@aalto.fi

Please check on our Cumulus Think Tank series at
http://sites.aalto.fi/cumulus/cumulus-think-tank-series-available-to-all/

The third Cumulus Think Tank publication was released during the Cumulus conference To get there: designing together Paris, France. It is the first ever publication from the Fashion and Textile Cumulus Working Group.

The Cumulus Think Tank series is designed to facilitate gathering and sharing of know-how and experiences of academics, students and staff in collaboration with partners and other professionals in art, design and media.

Soft Landing
Editors: Nithikul Nimkulrat, Ulla Ræbild, Anna Piper
Published by Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Finland
Printed by AS Pakett, Tallinn, Estonia
978-952-60-0083-1 (print)
978-952-60-0084-8 (pdf)
978-952-60-0085-5 (app)
978-952-60-0086-2 (ePub)

Soft Landing

Soft Landing is a collection of essays that pinpoints where fashion and textile education is today and where it may shift in the future. Initiated by Cumulus’s Fashion and Textile WG, the essays in this volume address critical questions for fashion and textiles. They shed light on different ideas, approaches, problems, and solutions from teaching and research, as well as contemplating the future trajectory and evolution of fashion and textile education. Will the landing be soft or with turbulence?

The full version of the book is now available for a free-download.
PDF version PDF_SINGLE_cumulus_soft_landing

Please check also the free Cumulus Publications app.
Download instructions at http://sites.aalto.fi/cumulus/download-our-cumulus-publications-app/

Soft Landing

Soft Landing is a collection of essays that pinpoints where fashion and textile education is today and where it may shift in the future. Initiated by Cumulus’s Fashion and Textile WG, the essays in this volume address critical questions for fashion and textiles. They shed light on different ideas, approaches, problems, and solutions from teaching and research, as well as contemplating the future trajectory and evolution of fashion and textile education. Will the landing be soft or with turbulence?

Editors:

Nithikul Nimkulrat Professor and Head of Department of Textile Design, Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia
Ulla Ræbild Assistant Professor and Head of MA Program PLANET – design for sustainable development, Design School Kolding, Denmark
Anna Piper Lecturer in Fashion, Knitwear and Textile Design, Nottingham Trent University, UK

Join the meeting:

Fashion and textile WG
13.30 – 15.30 – Ensaama 306

The Fashion and Textiles Working Group (FTWG) focuses on education and research within
the field of fashion and textiles. FTWG provides its members with an academic forum for
knowledge transfer and development in fashion and textile design higher education and with
relevant information about the educational, research and cultural policies of different
countries regarding our respective field, with a goal of reaching excellence and innovations
in fashion and textiles while promoting cooperation and partnership between member
institutions through projects and publications. FTWG also stimulates a dialogue between
Cumulus and DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) when
possible.

13.30–15.00 Book presentation of Soft Landing, Cumulus Think Tank publication No. 3

13.30–13.40 Introduction
Nithikul Nimkulrat, Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia
Ulla Ræbild, Design School Kolding, Denmark

13.40–14.00 Reshaping Fashion Education for the 21st Century World
Paola Bertola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

14.00–14.20 New Materiality: “Making Do” and Making Connections
Lydia Pearson, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

14.20–14.40 On Researching and Teaching Textile Design: Examples at The Swedish School of Textiles
Delia Dumitrescu and Hanna Landin, The Swedish School of Textiles, Sweden

14.40–15.00 Opportunities of Interactive Textile-Based Design for Education Tools for Children with Various Spectrums of Alertness Sensitivities
Nithikul Nimkulrat, Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia

15.00–15.20 From Fashion Pusher to Garment Usher?
How Fashion Design students at Design School Kolding Currently Explore Their Future Role in Society
Ulla Ræbild, Design School Kolding, Denmark

15.20–15.30 Open discussion / Wrapping up

The Cumulus Think Tank publications are to share knowledge and facilitate discussion and development, not only in education and research but with any other stakeholders, corporate or public within the fields where Cumulusians work and present.

The Cumulus General Assembly on 2 June 2017 in Kolding Denmark decided to open the call.
Cumulus provides it members a wide, dynamic and flexible international context for dialogue and innovation since 1990. Cumulus promotes and empowers the talent of the next generation of creative and responsible professionals. It facilitates exchange of knowledge, sharing best practices and research results in our fields. Cumulus encourages collaboration with industry, professional bodies, enterprises, civil society and government and NGO´s to address the contemporary
challenges through art, design and media. Cumulus has around 260 institutional members from 56 countries, it has a wide network of partnership and can serve a minimum of 400.000 students and several thousands of staff members. Cumulus has partnership with institutions like AIGA, ADADA, ADR, BEDA, DINZ, DOGA, Design Research Society, RSA, EIDD, IASDR, ico-D, iF Germany, Japan Institute of Design Promotion (JDP), National Innovation Foundation of India, Honeybee Network, Sristi and GIAN, NASAD, DESIS Network, Pro Arte, ELIA, Alvar Aalto Foundation, OHIM of the European Union, Pro Arte. Other new ones may come serving the members and ensuring transfer of knowledge and sharing practices with stakeholders close to the areas Cumulus represent. Cumulus endorsed by UNESCO.

Cumulus Executive Board has decided in its meeting in March 2017 to support three (3) publications by the Cumulus Working Groups. The aim is to provide a transparent and collaborative platform for sharing the knowledge by the working groups and an opportunity for art, design and media educators and researchers to reach a wider network. Each publication will get a grant of max 10.000 € by Cumulus.

Content
The topic and content is to be defined by the proposing group. The idea is to address an issue relevant to education and research in our areas. The aim is to share knowledge and facilitate discussion and development, not only in education and research but with any other stakeholders, corporate or public within the fields where Cumulusians work and present. Anybody with an idea for publication, but not knowing the working group it would belong to, please contact the Cumulus secretariat for advice.

Conditions
1. The bid is binding.
2. The publication is published in the name of Cumulus International Association of Universities and Colleges in Art, Design and Media.
3. The call aims at a number of Cumulus member institutions existing as Cumulus Working Groups to publish together. Cumulus Working Groups are the ones that e.g. may hold their meetings in connection with the two annual Cumulus main conferences.
4. The design of the publication follows the Cumulus Think Tank Guidelines, please consult the secretariat.
5. The publication will get an ISBN number and any equivalent organized by the Cumulus secretariat unless otherwise negotiated.
6. The language of the publication is English.
7. The working group must show the plan of reviewing the quality of the publication.
8. Every Cumulus Working Group of Cumulus has a leading person. The group works out the application with this lead person who is the key contact for the Cumulus secretariat in publishing and the editing process unless otherwise defined by the group.
9. A third party or any further one in publishing can be any existing member, partner of Cumulus or any other. Regarding any partner, the secretariat must be consulted and an agreement may be signed between the third party or any further one and Cumulus.
10. Cumulus will have the right to publish as well as to use the photos or equivalent visual material in the publication organized by the writer or the group. The key contact person coordinates with the Cumulus secretariat that each author signs a contract on the publishing including the right given to Cumulus to use the visual material.
11. The group will work out additional financial support for the publication. If any contract necessary with any other party concerning the financial support for the publication, the contract must be negotiated with the assistance of the Cumulus secretariat and may be signed in the name of Cumulus by the secretariat.
12. The Cumulus grant payment is negotiable with the secretariat. The aim is the final payment is be done after the publication is finished.
13. The applications will be approved by the Cumulus Executive Board that may further work
out a scientific committee or equivalent in order to assure the scientific level and quality of the publication with the working group selected. The board may also set up an additional person or a team to further assure the quality or any equivalent for the success of the publication.
14. The publication will be marketed through the Cumulus website and social media by the Cumulus secretariat.
15. The aim is the publication is a free downloadable through the Cumulus site. If any other source of sharing the publication, it must be negotiated in collaboration with the Cumulus secretariat. Each group also understands depending on the nature of the publication, there can be also a shortened or the original version of the publication downloadable through the Cumulus App, to be negotiated with the Cumulus secretariat.
16. Cumulus keeps the right on the opportunity to sell the publication. If so, it is negotiated by the Cumulus secretariat with the group.
17. The publication must be published at the latest within one year from the decision of the Cumulus Executive Board. If any delays, the group must contact the secretariat and may get extension time for the publication upon approval by the board or the grant and the right to publish in the name of Cumulus may expire.

Selection
The Cumulus Executive Board will select the granted publications in the board meeting after the call is closed. In the selection, the board will consider how challenging the content is and how it reflects current issues, as well as the relevance of the publication to the Cumulus family and the global community around.

The board may negotiate with the applicants regarding the application before its final decision and consult other stakeholders before its decision. The board is entitled to a decision not to fund one group consecutively and it may postpone the application to the next round. The board aims to decide in its November 2017 meeting during the time of Cumulus Bengaluru India conference, 20-23 November 2017.

How to present the application?
The Cumulus Working group to apply must do the application in English:

1. Name of the Cumulus Working Group applying, key contact person and the list of the group
members by name and the institution. (Contact information: Address, email,
phone/skype/whatsapp etc.)
2. Information in detail of role of the group members defining their duties in the publishing process
3. Information of any other partners as in item 1. and 2. as above.
4. a. content of the publication (general description of the idea)
b. authors known when the application is left in
c. draft of the name of the publication etc. equivalent
d. any need known for the Creative Commons licenses and equivalent.
5. The plan for the scientific committee/quality assurance for the application by the Working Group.
6. Publishing plan (from the idea to the publication, time etc.)
7. Budget of the publication & estimate of in-kind incl. (budget can exceed the grant, if so, an additional funding plan to be shown. Additional funding, source: Name of the institution, address, email, phone etc. and amount.)
8. Any other information

Further information:
Cumulus Secretariat Justyna Molik justyna.molik@aalto.fi

The deadline for the applications is 30 October 2017 by email to; Justyna Molik; justyna.molik@aalto.fi

The second Cumulus Think Tank publication was released during the Cumulus conference In this Place in Nottingham, UK. The first ever publication from the X-files Working Group.

The Cumulus Think Tank series is designed to facilitate gathering and sharing of know-how and experiences of academics, students and staff in collaboration with partners and other professionals in art, design and media.

Bearers of Internationalisation
Editors: Aparajita Dutta (chief editor), Maria Aasma, Yolande Kolstee
Published by Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Finland
Printed by Libertas Pascal, Utrecht, the Netherlands 2016
ISBN (print): 978-952-60-0074-9
ISBN (pdf): 978-952-60-0075-66

Bearers of Internationalization: a collection of articles, personal thoughts and research reports presented by colleagues working in the field of internationalisation in the very many different capacities of exhcnage coordinators, international officers, policy makers, directors and teachers. ‘Internationalisation’ within the art and design education is a collective effort across all levels within an institution keeping in mind that the students stand at the centre of everything that we X-Fileans do.

The full version of the book is now available for a free-download.
http://sites.aalto.fi/cumulus/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Bearers-of-Internationalisation_17-05-20161.pdf

This volume records the first 3 years of onging discussions about storytelling and design for social innovation held in different places around the world, many hosted during the Cumulus conferences. Desis is a long-term partner of Cumulus.

DESIS Philosophy Talks Book
The Pearl Diver: The Designer as Storyteller
(free download)

Presently, we encounter a wide variety of ways in which designers tell stories of social innovation. This encouraged us to start a reflection on the idea of storytelling emerging from our practices, and to look at it from multiple perspectives. We have done so through conversations withdesigners, researchers, philosophers, as well as practitioners and theorists from many different fields who participated in the DESIS Philosophy Talks series about Storytelling and Design for Social Innovation.(http://www.desis-philosophytalks.org/about/)

This volume records the first three years of ongoing discussions about this topic held in different places around the world. We had the opportunity to share practices and experiences and to reflect together on the meanings and values generated by them. With this book we share the first series of reflections and invite you to be part of this experimental process of co-creation of collective knowledge.

The Pearl Diver is edited by Elisa Bertolotti, Heather Daam, Francesca Piredda and Virginia Tassinari, and presents the thoughts of Francesca Antonacci, Valentina Anzoise, Tricia Austin, Nik Baerten, Pablo Calderón Salazar, Joana Casaca Lemos, Mariana Ciancia, Luigi Ferrara, Alastair Fuad-Luke, Marisa Galbiati, Saba Golchehr, David Hamers, Michael Kaethler, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Sophie Krier, Donatella Mancini, Ezio Manzini, Ilaria Mariani, Walter Mattana, Andrea Mendoza, David Parkinson, Thomas Pausz, Davide Pinardi, Daniel Anthony Rossi, Bettina Schwalm, Roberta Tassi, Mika ‘Lumi’ Tuomola, Francesca Valsecchi and Susan Yelavich.

It is available as a free download at https://archive.org/details/ThePearlDiver_DESIS.