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Prestigious Award for the President of Bisen, Hokkaido

Tuesday, July 15th, 2014

Mr. Hideo Takahashi, President of Hokkaido College of Art and Design, received an award from the Emperor of Japan, which was “The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Silver Rays.”

He was given this as praise for his endeavors to education in art and design over a long time.

Mr. Hideo Takahashi was given an audience with the Emperor, along with the others who received awards in Tokyo on May 13th, 2014.

春の叙勲 

2014 AIAS activity

Sunday, March 16th, 2014

THE VALUE OF OUR NETWORK

:

RE-INVENTING THE AIAS

 

Globalisation and the media have changed the need for and use of international networks and meetings. Nowadays a network as the AIAS needs to have a clear goal and additional value to its participants to survive and stay appreciated.

One of these goals for the AIAS could be the development and enhancement of the quality and level of the curriculum.

 

This would basically mean a shift of the emphasis of the AIAS cooperation from more practice lead workshops for advanced students and professors into the development of education and curriculum.

 

The provisional outcome of recent interviews about the future of the AIAS showed the need to investigate the possibility to exchange art and design education in a more effective and economical way.

 

The AIAS network should focus on partnership based on schools that are willing to aim for a strong curriculum that can be tested on an international level. This would result in a joint development where participants can learn from each other to establish a strong international curriculum, which is highly important while training our students to actively participate in open sources like newspapers, magazines and internet.

Eventually this should also result in an exchange of staff and professors who will take care of leading workshops at one of the member schools and have a more positive and durable effect on the exchange of education within our Association.

This could also mean that – motivated by the interaction with these professors – the students will understand better why they have chosen for a specific school in regard to their international ambitions.

 

In the end this will lead to professional skilled artists/designers, who can flourish on an international recognized professional level and more sophisticated platforms like art en design manifestations worldwide.

 

As one of the AIAS founding Academies, the recently appointed new director of AKI ArtEZ – Enschede, The Netherlands, Ronald Kox and professor Wouter Hooijmans – active partner in several AIAS activities in the past – are willing to take the lead to start up the debate between the members of the AIAS. This debate should have a mutual benefit for all participants, both smaller independent Art Schools and Schools that are part of a larger organisation. 

In our opinion this emphasis on an international curriculum is an urgent new direction in the development and survival of the AIAS.

 

At first, the concept of this new AIAS formula can be developed by a small group of concerned participants from the association followed up by a successive phase in which we will call for the know-how and experience of all our members.

The outcome will have to lead to a concrete proposition for the future of the AIAS during a conference with the members in 2014.

 

We hereby invite you to give us your highly appreciated thoughts about this new goal for the future of the AIAS network.

Please send your comment to :

elsnieuwenhuis@aias-artdesign.org .

 

We are looking forward to a fruitful and vivid discussion. Therefore, please also indicate if you would like to participate in the small group to take the first step to develop this new formula.

 

Amsterdam, November 2013.

 

Els Nieuwenhuis, Secretary General.

Call for participants!

Sunday, November 24th, 2013

Please  indicate if you would like to participate in the pilot group to take the first step to develop the new AIAS formula

 

Globalisation and the media have changed the need for and use of international networks and meetings. Nowadays a network as the AIAS needs to have a clear goal and additional value to its participants to survive and stay appreciated.

One of these goals for the AIAS could be the development and enhancement of the quality and level of the curriculum.

 

This would basically mean a shift of the emphasis of the AIAS cooperation from more practice lead workshops for advanced students and professors into the development of education and curriculum.

 

The provisional outcome of recent interviews about the future of the AIAS showed the need to investigate the possibility to exchange art and design education in a more effective and economical way.

 

The AIAS network should focus on partnership based on schools that are willing to aim for a strong curriculum that can be tested on an international level. This would result in a joint development where participants can learn from each other to establish a strong international curriculum, which is highly important while training our students to actively participate in open sources like newspapers, magazines and internet.

Eventually this should also result in an exchange of staff and professors who will take care of leading workshops at one of the member schools and have a more positive and durable effect on the exchange of education within our Association.

This could also mean that – motivated by the interaction with these professors – the students will understand better why they have chosen for a specific school in regard to their international ambitions.

 

In the end this will lead to professional skilled artists/designers, who can flourish on an international recognized professional level and more sophisticated platforms like art en design manifestations worldwide.

 

As one of the AIAS founding Academies, the recently appointed new director of AKI ArtEZ – Enschede, The Netherlands, Ronald Kox and professor Wouter Hooijmans – active partner in several AIAS activities in the past – are willing to take the lead to start up the debate between the members of the AIAS. This debate should have a mutual benefit for all participants, both smaller independent Art Schools and Schools that are part of a larger organisation. 

In our opinion this emphasis on an international curriculum is an urgent new direction in the development and survival of the AIAS.

 

At first, the concept of this new AIAS formula can be developed by a small group of concerned participants from the association followed up by a successive phase in which we will call for the know-how and experience of all our members.

The outcome will have to lead to a concrete proposition for the future of the AIAS during a conference with the members in 2014.

 

We hereby invite you to give us your highly appreciated thoughts about this new goal for the future of the AIAS network.

Please send your comment to :

elsnieuwenhuis@aias-artdesign.org .

 

 

 

 

 

Els Nieuwenhuis, Secretary General.

New director ArtEZ Enschede

Thursday, April 11th, 2013

Ronald Kox has been appointed as the new director of ArtEZ Academy of Art and Design in Enschede NL

AIAS in between workshops for teachers!!!!!!!!

Monday, March 25th, 2013

The E.Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw organized AIAS in between workshops for the teachers of the AIAS member schools. The AIAS Board and the organizing school have the pleasure to invite them for this workshops called “Biofeedback” that will take place at The E.Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw from 9th to 15th of May 2013. Please kindly spread away the attached Call for Participants information among the teachers who are interested in taking part in the event. The attached registration form should be returned to the E.Geppert Academy of Art and Design until 5th of April 2013.

BIO-feedback call for participants AIAS-in between workshop for teachers

BIOFEEDBACK AIAS REGISTRATION FORM

Call for participants: program and entry form women shelters in Istanbul

Saturday, February 4th, 2012

program women shelters

Entry form women shelters

AIAS in between workshop May 2011 Kaywon School of Art and Design

Sunday, January 29th, 2012

This workshop for AIAS professors and students was organized by the Kaywon School of Art and Design, Seoul

publication AIAS in between workshop Kaywon May 2011

 

Publication AIAS-in-between workshop spring 2011

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

This workshop for AIAS professors and students was organized by the Kaywon School of Art and Design, Seoul

publication AIAS in between workshop Kaywon May 2011