Friday, February 6, 2009
Sunday, January 25, 2009
MoD Oslo 2009
A COCREATING SCHOOL AND STUDENT COLLABORATION. Since Winter 2006-2007 faculty at two very different higher education schools in Oslo, that is, BI Norwegian School of Management and KHiO, the National Academy of the Arts, and some of their student groups have cocreated what we call MoD, management of design (*originally management and marketing of design).
It is a crossover kind of ideation, project management and entrepreneurship course for bachelor students from the two higher education schools involved. So far, students and faculty from two educational areas, 'culture and leadership' and 'design' of the two schools respectively can engage in this. The joint 'MOD' learning project is focused on concept-development, visual design and communication, and management of creative projects in interdisciplinary business and design groups. The business and design students are organized into preset mixed groups and 'thrown' into joint ideation and project managing practice for three weeks.
THE TASK each year is to come up with eventually one core idea in each group and make, refine, organize and communicate the group's core idea, visual design, and project and business planning around the idea chosen within a short time frame. The groups are free to choose idea and set up of their project organization within the overall aims and frame of this learning project. See the MOD overall aims and intentions as well as history and experiences outlined elsewhere (modoslo.blogspot.com). Brief on the background initiative, see note below.
IN MOD 2009 18 groups have been working from 5. to 23. January in a highly intensive cocreation in addition to lectures, seminars, field visits, guest lectures and so forth.
On last Friday, the 23 January, 18 groups presented their idea - many in highly triggering 15 minutes performances. The ideas varied from culture-communication focused ones to business ideas based on mixtures of health, safety, and environmental concerns. Arts and design aspects were essential in the projects. Many concrete ideas could contribute to social and service innovation for people and places in Oslo. For example a project that could light up literally dark areas along the Akerselva (*river in Oslo) because many people want to walk in this area.
It is amazing how the groups had developed their ideas and team spirit in few weeks.
It will be exciting to learn about the future careers of the 2009 MOD students and see if any, or other related, projects will become realized. Most important perhaps is to learn to collaborate in new ways.
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Note on background
THE INITIATIVE for MOD was originally taken in 2006 by four faculty members, two from each school, i.e., dean of design Halldor Gislason and fashion design professor Tove Kjær from Khio and Donatella de Paoli and Birgit Helene Jevnaker, both associate professors from BI. Thus, the collaboration also is involving two of BI Management school's departments, 'Communication, culture, and language' and 'Innovation and economic organizing'.
Both Dori and Birgit had run ideation and entrepreneurship/design-business creativity oriented courses previously (also in other school settings), and we have also friends that have been involved in some related initiatives in other countries. The other faculty members, Donatella and Tove also had long and varied experiences that could be reused creatively for this joint learning project. All were also in formal positions (*with course or program responsibilities) at their schools to influence the school's courses and students' work. Last but not least, I would say a critical success factor, is a group of at least four faculty members have been highly engaged in both launching AND following-cum-realizing this project. A creative joint effort by more than one faculty made this crossover initiative feasible in practice.
It is a crossover kind of ideation, project management and entrepreneurship course for bachelor students from the two higher education schools involved. So far, students and faculty from two educational areas, 'culture and leadership' and 'design' of the two schools respectively can engage in this. The joint 'MOD' learning project is focused on concept-development, visual design and communication, and management of creative projects in interdisciplinary business and design groups. The business and design students are organized into preset mixed groups and 'thrown' into joint ideation and project managing practice for three weeks.
THE TASK each year is to come up with eventually one core idea in each group and make, refine, organize and communicate the group's core idea, visual design, and project and business planning around the idea chosen within a short time frame. The groups are free to choose idea and set up of their project organization within the overall aims and frame of this learning project. See the MOD overall aims and intentions as well as history and experiences outlined elsewhere (modoslo.blogspot.com). Brief on the background initiative, see note below.
IN MOD 2009 18 groups have been working from 5. to 23. January in a highly intensive cocreation in addition to lectures, seminars, field visits, guest lectures and so forth.
On last Friday, the 23 January, 18 groups presented their idea - many in highly triggering 15 minutes performances. The ideas varied from culture-communication focused ones to business ideas based on mixtures of health, safety, and environmental concerns. Arts and design aspects were essential in the projects. Many concrete ideas could contribute to social and service innovation for people and places in Oslo. For example a project that could light up literally dark areas along the Akerselva (*river in Oslo) because many people want to walk in this area.
It is amazing how the groups had developed their ideas and team spirit in few weeks.
It will be exciting to learn about the future careers of the 2009 MOD students and see if any, or other related, projects will become realized. Most important perhaps is to learn to collaborate in new ways.
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Note on background
THE INITIATIVE for MOD was originally taken in 2006 by four faculty members, two from each school, i.e., dean of design Halldor Gislason and fashion design professor Tove Kjær from Khio and Donatella de Paoli and Birgit Helene Jevnaker, both associate professors from BI. Thus, the collaboration also is involving two of BI Management school's departments, 'Communication, culture, and language' and 'Innovation and economic organizing'.
Both Dori and Birgit had run ideation and entrepreneurship/design-business creativity oriented courses previously (also in other school settings), and we have also friends that have been involved in some related initiatives in other countries. The other faculty members, Donatella and Tove also had long and varied experiences that could be reused creatively for this joint learning project. All were also in formal positions (*with course or program responsibilities) at their schools to influence the school's courses and students' work. Last but not least, I would say a critical success factor, is a group of at least four faculty members have been highly engaged in both launching AND following-cum-realizing this project. A creative joint effort by more than one faculty made this crossover initiative feasible in practice.
Friday, November 21, 2008
WHO WAS HE? Arne Dørumsgaard 1921-2006
Arne Dørumsgaard with a family cat(courtesy: Norsk lydinstitutt, I presume, not me! I took some other photos of him when visiting him in Oct 1991)
Rediscovery of this renaissance man, see new article in the newspaper Dag og Tid (in nynorsk, "new" Norwegian)
Litterært storverk utan like
Av ARVID BRYNE, 20.11.08
I 25 band har Arne Dørumsgaard (1921-2006) gjeve oss kremen av poesi frå Kina, Japan og Korea, samstundes med at han presenterer diktarane og deira tid.
http://www.dagogtid.no/nyhet.cfm?nyhetid=1419
Thursday, November 20, 2008
LITERATURE AS WALLBREAKER Seminar on Dørumsgaard 18 nov 2008 Oslo
Seminar in Litteraturhuset (House of Literature) in Oslo on Arne Dørumsgaard's book series on the old poetry of East.
Program in Norwegian:
ØSTENS POESI OG LITTERATUR SOM MURBREKKER
Åpning ved førsteamanuensis Birgit Helene Jevnaker og redaktør Hans B. Butenschøn
Avduking av "Østens gamle poesi", et bokverk på 25 bind som presenterer kinesisk, japansk og koreansk litteratur og samfunn fra "de eldste tider" til det 20. århundre, gjendiktet og skrevet av Arne Dørumsgaard. Avduking ved Walid al-Kubaisi mfl.
Torbjørn Færøvik foredrag:
Litteraturen – vår døråpner til fremmede kulturer.
Hans B. Butenschøn:
Barbarer – vi?
Kinesisk tradisjonell sang og musikk:
Zeng Xiao Gang: Sang og bordharpe
Turid Alida Solberg: Sang
Arkivleder Jacqueline von Arb, Norsk lydinstitutt:
En musikkbegavelse – flere livsverk
Arne Dørumsgaard leser gjendiktninger (i opptak)
Professor Rune Svarverud:
Nærlesing av Dørumsgaards VÅR: Diktning, gjendiktning og oversettelse
Arrangør: Polyteknisk forening, Kultur og medier og Andresen og Butenschøn AS
http://www.litteraturhuset.no/program/2008/11/litteratursommurbrekker.html
HVEM VAR DØRUMSGAARD? Født i Fredrikstad 1921. Bodde siden 1968 i den nord-italienske landsbyen Marzio der han døde i mars 2006. Hans liv i noen korte og ufullstendige stikkord (sakser fra forlagets presentasjon):
"Dikter, gjendikter, komponist og sanger, levde det meste av sitt liv utenfor Norge, men arbeidet i alle år for norsk kultur. Han begynte sitt arbeid med gjendiktninger av Østens poesi i 1949. Da han på grunn av sviktende helse måtte legge ned pennen forelå tre omfattende bind om Kinas poesi fra 1368-1911 nesten ferdig. Han mottok kunstnergasje fra den norske stat på livstid."
ØSTENS GAMLE POESI NÅ FERDIG: Arne Dørumsgaard utførte et helt livsverk ved sin gjendiktning til norsk av Østens poesi. I 25 bind presenterer han de viktigste diktere i Kina, Japan og Korea gjennom alle tider og med fyldige presentasjoner av dikterne og deres bakgrunn. I Viften av perlemor 3A gjendiktes perler fra det tidlige Ming-dynastiet (år 1369-1500). Nå foreligger snart også bind 3B posthumt. (vi avventer trykkingen hos Valdres trykkeri).
Program in Norwegian:
ØSTENS POESI OG LITTERATUR SOM MURBREKKER
Åpning ved førsteamanuensis Birgit Helene Jevnaker og redaktør Hans B. Butenschøn
Avduking av "Østens gamle poesi", et bokverk på 25 bind som presenterer kinesisk, japansk og koreansk litteratur og samfunn fra "de eldste tider" til det 20. århundre, gjendiktet og skrevet av Arne Dørumsgaard. Avduking ved Walid al-Kubaisi mfl.
Torbjørn Færøvik foredrag:
Litteraturen – vår døråpner til fremmede kulturer.
Hans B. Butenschøn:
Barbarer – vi?
Kinesisk tradisjonell sang og musikk:
Zeng Xiao Gang: Sang og bordharpe
Turid Alida Solberg: Sang
Arkivleder Jacqueline von Arb, Norsk lydinstitutt:
En musikkbegavelse – flere livsverk
Arne Dørumsgaard leser gjendiktninger (i opptak)
Professor Rune Svarverud:
Nærlesing av Dørumsgaards VÅR: Diktning, gjendiktning og oversettelse
Arrangør: Polyteknisk forening, Kultur og medier og Andresen og Butenschøn AS
http://www.litteraturhuset.no/program/2008/11/litteratursommurbrekker.html
HVEM VAR DØRUMSGAARD? Født i Fredrikstad 1921. Bodde siden 1968 i den nord-italienske landsbyen Marzio der han døde i mars 2006. Hans liv i noen korte og ufullstendige stikkord (sakser fra forlagets presentasjon):
"Dikter, gjendikter, komponist og sanger, levde det meste av sitt liv utenfor Norge, men arbeidet i alle år for norsk kultur. Han begynte sitt arbeid med gjendiktninger av Østens poesi i 1949. Da han på grunn av sviktende helse måtte legge ned pennen forelå tre omfattende bind om Kinas poesi fra 1368-1911 nesten ferdig. Han mottok kunstnergasje fra den norske stat på livstid."
ØSTENS GAMLE POESI NÅ FERDIG: Arne Dørumsgaard utførte et helt livsverk ved sin gjendiktning til norsk av Østens poesi. I 25 bind presenterer han de viktigste diktere i Kina, Japan og Korea gjennom alle tider og med fyldige presentasjoner av dikterne og deres bakgrunn. I Viften av perlemor 3A gjendiktes perler fra det tidlige Ming-dynastiet (år 1369-1500). Nå foreligger snart også bind 3B posthumt. (vi avventer trykkingen hos Valdres trykkeri).
Monday, November 3, 2008
DESIGN is discussed in New York Times by Janet Rae-Dupree (4 Oct 2008) noting that design is more than packaging and so forth. The article also introduces design thinking, an emergent hot topic in some design milieus, see
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/business/05unbox.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=%22Janet%20Rae
YET WHAT IS NEW IS NOT pointing to the wider meanings or discussions of design or design thinking per se. Rather, what appears new is the new crossover cultivating of design-oriented activities in "new" or "old" contexts. The article gives some insight into this by referring to the new educational approaches such as unfolding at Stanford's new socalled d.school.
D.SCHOOL. New York Times reports that the d.school is not set up as a new trad full education for designers. Instead, it is providing joint design courses for interested students across the school's existing fields but also a grad opportunity. The rise of new design-oriented courses for students coming from a variety of backgrounds may thus affect several breeds of students getting entirely new experiences, which is interesting from a design management and innovation perspective.
D+B COURSE MoD OSLO. Providing new learning initiatives as a joint collaborative offering for crossdisciplinary groups of students is something we are exploring also at Norwegian School of Management (BI) , e.g., through an ongoing collaboration on Management and marketing of Design (MoD) with the Design Faculty of Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO) offered from January 2007 onwards. The particular collaboration with design teachers and students at KHiO is involving its three design educations and at BI it involves two bachelor courses and two of its departments (Innovation and Economic Organization, and Intercultural Communication). It has been offered for at least around 100 design and business students each January since 2007. See http://modoslo.blogspot.com/2008_01_06_archive.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/business/05unbox.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=%22Janet%20Rae
YET WHAT IS NEW IS NOT pointing to the wider meanings or discussions of design or design thinking per se. Rather, what appears new is the new crossover cultivating of design-oriented activities in "new" or "old" contexts. The article gives some insight into this by referring to the new educational approaches such as unfolding at Stanford's new socalled d.school.
D.SCHOOL. New York Times reports that the d.school is not set up as a new trad full education for designers. Instead, it is providing joint design courses for interested students across the school's existing fields but also a grad opportunity. The rise of new design-oriented courses for students coming from a variety of backgrounds may thus affect several breeds of students getting entirely new experiences, which is interesting from a design management and innovation perspective.
D+B COURSE MoD OSLO. Providing new learning initiatives as a joint collaborative offering for crossdisciplinary groups of students is something we are exploring also at Norwegian School of Management (BI) , e.g., through an ongoing collaboration on Management and marketing of Design (MoD) with the Design Faculty of Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO) offered from January 2007 onwards. The particular collaboration with design teachers and students at KHiO is involving its three design educations and at BI it involves two bachelor courses and two of its departments (Innovation and Economic Organization, and Intercultural Communication). It has been offered for at least around 100 design and business students each January since 2007. See http://modoslo.blogspot.com/2008_01_06_archive.html
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Rediscovery of Innovation (again)...
Innovation Economics... is suggested" as a new field in relation to the current crisis and what is seen as a need to "reinvent" the US, see http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_38/b4100052741280.htm
COMMENTS. I posted this today:
(Birgit Jevnaker Nov 2, 2008 10:01 AM GMT)
This is interesting but appears to be perhaps somewhat lagged in its view? (e.g., focusing mainly on innovation and R&D). There exists an enlarged view, or in fact, many views, on innovation, e.g., as represented by "innovation studies" including business history, sociology, and evolutionary or heterodox economics as well as other social science views. Innovation-oriented economics is part of a broader domain with many fields of knowing, which is fruitful to understand and stimulate valuable innovation.
COMMENTS. I posted this today:
(Birgit Jevnaker Nov 2, 2008 10:01 AM GMT)
This is interesting but appears to be perhaps somewhat lagged in its view? (e.g., focusing mainly on innovation and R&D). There exists an enlarged view, or in fact, many views, on innovation, e.g., as represented by "innovation studies" including business history, sociology, and evolutionary or heterodox economics as well as other social science views. Innovation-oriented economics is part of a broader domain with many fields of knowing, which is fruitful to understand and stimulate valuable innovation.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Dørumsgaard seminar 18 Nov Oslo
Our Polytechnic Society seminar on Dørumsgaard and his work on Eastern poetry is approaching...
Work meeting Yesterday to prepare for the details of this seminar.
Soon the whole book series by Dørumsgaard is completed (25 books in total).
Stay tuned...
Litteraturhuset 18 Nov 2008, 10.00- 13.00.
Work meeting Yesterday to prepare for the details of this seminar.
Soon the whole book series by Dørumsgaard is completed (25 books in total).
Stay tuned...
Litteraturhuset 18 Nov 2008, 10.00- 13.00.
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