Nottingham Conference News, New Board, President and Members
Nottingham Trent University Cumulus Conference, In This Place, was a success! New Cumulus Executive Board and President 2016-2019.!
We were all together close to 400 people from 43 countries. The atmosphere throughout the whole conference was inspiring, sharing and collaborating. Without your contribution it may not have been so successful! Cumulus welcomed in Nottingham 33 new full members, 2 associate members, please see the list of theirs as below and information on each of them is in the Cumulus website; http://sites.aalto.fi/cumulus/member/ . Cumulus welcomed the new Cumulus Executive Board VI 2016-2019 in the elections in the General Assembly on Sat 30 April 2016.
It is a pleasure to thank Acting Dean Julie Pinches, conference chair Professor Duncan Higgins, Professors Venu Dhupa, Tom Fisher, Tony Kent, event manager Sarah Connor, team leader NTU Research office Sarah Dossor, Marjolijn Brussaard as the former dean of School of Design in NTU and all students and staff contributing to the success of your conference. Without all our speakers during the conference it would not have been this interesting! Thanks to all Cumulusians of the great gathering together and all your efforts, sharing and friendship!
You can go and check the new board members´ profiles on Cumulus website: sites.aalto.fi/cumulus/homepage/representatives/, below their names and number of votes received in the General Assembly in Nottingham. Luisa Collina continues for another 3 years as the President of Cumulus – Luisa – congratulazioni!
Results of the Elections in the Cumulus General Assembly on Saturday 30 April 2016
President VI and the Cumulus Executive Board VI 2016-2019
President
Luisa Collina, Politecnico di Milano Italy
Cumulus Executive Board VI 2016-2019 & number of votes
- José Allard – PUC Santiago Chile – 100
- Mariana Amatullo – ArtCenter College of Design Los Angeles USA – 101
- Sam Bucolo – University of Technology Sydney Australia – 105
- Elsebeth Gerner-Nielsen – Design School Kolding Denmark – 110
- Sara Hyltén-Cavallius Linnaeus – University Kalmar Växjö Sweden – 100
- Lorenzo Imbesi – La Sapienza University Rome Italy – 98
- Ulrich Schendzielorz – University of Design Schwäbisch-Gmünd Germany . 98
- Rachel K.B. Troye – AHO Oslo School of Architecture and Design Norway – 93
- Robin Turner – Greenside Design Center and College, Johannesburg South-Africa – 115
- Xiao Yong – Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing P.R. China – 86
We would also like to thank once more all our old board members who could not be re-elected any more for their work; Signe Kivi Estonia, Annabel Pretty New Zealand, Virginia Tassinari Belgium, Andres Villela Chile and Lou Yongqi China. Thank you for your great contribution and we are – of course – looking forward to meeting all of you in the coming conferences and be part of actions.
In the General Assembly the Cumulus Statutes became updated. Our board worked to redesign them to match up with the international character of our Cumulus as well as some other details were updated to help the daily work of the secretariat and the board and the General Assembly. They will be on the website, after the final check. In Nottingham, the 3rd Cumulus Think Tank “Bearers of Internationalization” by our Cumulus Working Group X-files became published. A hard copy will be sent to all member and partner institutions and it will be downloadable by the Cumulus website, too. As well as the Changing Paradigms. Thanks X-Files for the great work. More will be coming and in Nottingham was announced a similar grant to support three new publications of the Cumulus Working Groups, the call will come out soon.
During the conference also a MoU was signed with our long term partner already, Pro Arte Foundation in St. Petersburg Russia. Their Executive Director Elena Kolovskaya did it with Luisa Collina in the General Assembly. Elena Kolovskaya held a presentation in the Cumulus Leadership and Strategy Working Group and we will publish it with the other speakers. Please take your time at http://www.proarte.ru/en/ .
In the conference were also present our existing partner AIGA US, Keith Owens and Michael Gibson from UNT College of Visual Arts + Design and AIGA DEC http://educators.aiga.org/were e.g. contributing to Cumulus reVeda Working Group. And from BEDA in EU, http://beda.org/, Vice-president John Mathers from UK Design Council held a keynote and Michal Stefanowski discussed BEDA position paper on design education in the Cumulus Design and Innovation Working Group. The keynotes given by Dr. Daniel Glaser and Wolfgang Buttress were extremely interested and nicely provoked positive discussion during the conference. We shall make a publication of the outcomes of the conference.
Please everybody book also in our calendar;
Cumulus in Hong Kong China
21 – 24 November 2016
Open Design for E-very-thing – exploring new design purposes
Hosted by the Hong Kong Design Institute
http://cumulus.hkdihongkong2016.org
New Memberships for Full membership 2016;
33 institutions from 24 countries, 4 new countries: Argentina, Indonesia, Pakistan, Peru
1 University of Palermo, School of Design and Communication, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria
3 George Brown College, School of Design, Toronto, Canada
4 Donghua University, Shanghai, China
5 KEA – Copenhagen School of Design and Technology, Copenhagen, Denmark
6 ESAM Design Ecole Superieure des Artes Modernes, Paris, France
7 Camondo interior architecture and design, Paris, France
8 HEAR – Haute ecole des arts du Rhin, Strasbourg, France
9 SDS Sustainable Design School, Nice, France
10 Macromedia University, School of Creative Arts, Germany
11HSD Hochschule Dusseldorf University of Applied Sciences, Design Department Peter Behrens School of Arts, Germany
12 NID National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India
13 NIFT National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi, India
14 Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Faculty of Visual Art and Design,
15 Institute of Technology National (ITENAS) Bandung, Indonesia
16 Shenkar. Engineering. Design. Art., Azrieli Faculty of Design, Ramat-Gan, Israel
17 Instituto Marangoni, School of Fashion, Art & Design, Milan, Italy
18 Kyushu University, Faculty of Design, School of Design, Graduate School of Design, Fukuoka, Japan
19 CENTRO Diseño, Cine y Televisión, Mexico City, Mexico
20 Minerva Art Academy, Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen, the Netherlands
21 Pakistan Institute of Fashion and Design, Lahore, Pakistan
22 Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de América Latina UCAL, Lima, Peru
23 Cheongju University, College of Arts, Cheongju, Republic of Korea
24 Russian State University for the Humanities, Faculty of the History of Art, Moscow, Russia
25 Lasalle College of the Arts, Faculty of Design, Singapore
26 ESD Madrid School of Design, Spain
27 Mid Sweden University, Department of Industrial Design, Department of Media and Communication Science, Sundsvall, Sweden
28 Malmö University, School of Arts and Communication, Sweden
29 Izmir University of Economics, Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Turkey
30 London College of Contemporary Arts, UK
31 Manchester Metropolitan University, Hollings Faculty and the Manchester School of Art, UK
32 Plymouth College of Art, UK
33 Rhode Island School of Design, USA
New Members for the Associate membership in 2016
- La Conference des Quatre Ecoles, France
- JD Educational Trust, India
