A Project funded by the Teaching Development Grant of UGC
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A Project funded by the Teaching Development Grant of UGC
Creativity in Practice (CIP): Teaching and Learning Outside Classroom
Principal Investigator: Dr. Linda LAI Co- Investigator: Mr. Wesley TANG (left
CityU in 9.2008) Current course coordinator of
Portfolio and Practicum: Mr. Yue-jin HO
City University of Hong Kong
School of Creative Media
TDG Project No. 6000135 PI: Dr Linda Lai
What is Creativity in Practice (CIP)?
INTEGRATION OF THEORY & PRACTICE IN MEDIA ARTS
•Managed under a CIL core course Portfolio & Practicum (SM4146) & assessed by all faculty as part of a student’s Graduation Thesis (SM4140)
•For the roughly 90 Critical Intermedia Laboratory
(CIL, one of the 3 study areas in BACM) students
• Last for 20 Months (January 2007 – August 2008)
• Investigated by Studio leader Dr. Linda LAI
• In Alignment with the CIL curriculum (PILOs)
Formalization & Consolidation of Existing Good Practices for Systematic Administration and Assessment
TDG Project No. 6000135 PI: Dr Linda Lai
What is Creativity in Practice (CIP)?
DIGITAL PORTFOLIO
created in
Portfolio
& Practicum
SM4146
Expository Writing:
Writing
for CV
DVD
Production
Website
Production
Art/Cultural Projects
(Community Services)
Internship
(roughly 6 weeks)
(Professional)Art Workshops
(Educational)
SKILLS
CIL Creative Bulletin #1
(Art-Making)(annual showcase of CIL course-
art-works to the public)
Sentensia
(Curatorial Practices)(competitive cash award for
students to run an exhibition)
Talks and Seminars
(Alumni & professional experts to
Broaden Horizons)
Outreach
Activities
13-week
training in class
TDG Project No. 6000135 PI: Dr Linda Lai
The aim & activities of CIP
• Reflect and apply creative art knowledge & skills
• Develop leadership, presentation and communication skills
• Learn more about own views and abilities
• Deliver works meeting the professional standard of
media industry
• Exercise concern for society in concrete actions
• Verify own values in real organization’s actual practice
• Develop and extend professional networks
• Build a website to demonstrate evidence of PILOs:
display students’ digital portfolios & documentation of
outreach activities
(2A) Outreach Education Programme
(2B) Internship at Media Organizations
(2C) Local Art & Cultural Events
(3) Digital Portfolio
(4) International and Local Experts(5) Exhibition
Differentiated ILOs for * Students (ILOs) * Staff * the School
*Realize with the help of a research assistant, student helpers and the faculty members in CIL
(1) Create a Core course Portfolio and Practicum
TDG Project No. 6000135 PI: Dr Linda Lai
(1) “Portfolio and Practicum” the course
• http://sweb.cityu.edu.hk/sm4146
13 weeks of 3-hour workshopWriting:
Personal narratives of creative development + artist’s statements + c.v.
Reflection:Personal creative path, internship and outreach experiences
Multimedia productionDVD production, web-site production
Seminar with professional experts and alumniCase studies: sample portfolios by good artists
TDG Project No. 6000135 PI: Dr Linda Lai
(2A) Outreach Education Programmehttp://sweb.cityu.edu.hk/teachingandlearning/new/events.shtml#schoolcia
(Senior-year) Students practise
what they have learnt in SCM through
teaching others
35 student-instructors, 16 teaching teams, 16 secondary schools,
16 4-to-8-week creative workshops on
Photography, Creative Writing, Video, Animation . . .
TDG Project No. 6000135 PI: Dr Linda Lai
26 students, 15 media production companies including Television Production,
Animation, Design, Website Design, Publishing, Advertising . . .
Full-time commitment of students in the field of media productions
Full-time employment of some graduates in the organizations
they worked as interns
(2B) Internship in Media Organizations
Performance of students Evaluated by 33 organizations joining the internship:
Exceptional: 4
Greater than required: 16
Meet Expectation: 8
Below Expectation: 0
TDG Project No. 6000135 PI: Dr Linda Lai
(2C) Local Art and Cultural Events
Support art and cultural organizations in the form of
local art community services
32 students, 10 art and cultural institutes including research, production,
communication, administrative, operational . . .
Positive Feedback from Students and participating organizations
Students are excited to participate in local art event
Continuation of part-time involvement of students
in the affiliated organizations
TDG Project No. 6000135 PI: Dr Linda Lai
(3) Digital Portfolio
(i) Student digital portfolio
(ii) CIL digital archive for student works from different courses
• All portfolios are uploaded to the internal e-Portfolio archive
• Good works are uploaded to the CIL website: http://sweb.cityu.edu.hk/cil/works.htm
• A news section for the CIL community is created: http://cilnews.wordpress.com/
• A server is bought to store all CIL-related digital archives (Videos, portfolios etc.)
“The CV and portfolio writing workshops in Portfolio and Practicum is useful in
making a better portfolio for potential employers”
“Through good course works of senior students, I can understand what
the courses are about. The showcase can be an inspiration
for my own course work too.”
TDG Project No. 6000135 PI: Dr Linda Lai
International and local experts are invited to broaden their horizon
(4) International and Local Experts
Around 60 students, 4 guest speakers, 6 seminars
Expertise Name of Expert Seminar Topic
Sound Art, experimental documentary, video essays
Robert Iolini sound / image / text
Phonographic art, web community and cultural heritage activism
Anson Mak Media literacy education
Curatorship for museum and contemporary art space
Stella Fong Exhibition and curatorial practice
International Contemporary Art Curatorship
Álvaro Rodríguez Fominaya
Art valuation
Art curatorship with a “green” concern
Music composition, sound art, phonography and sound theories
Dr. John Drever Live performance with dance, video and sound
TDG Project No. 6000135 PI: Dr Linda Lai
(5) Exhibition
An end-of-semester exhibition
showcasing 60 works
CIL Creative Bulletin #1Course-based student work showcase
open to public
“SENTENSIA”Creative Community:
Group Exhibition Fund ($10,000)
A community based 5-day-exhibition
organized by 7 CIL students
Art-making & Curatorial Experiment
TDG Project No. 6000135 PI: Dr Linda Lai
Achievements in CIP
CIP deliverables are realized:
16 Creative Art Workshops, 38 internship experiences in 25 organizations,
32 Digital Portfolios, A CIL studio webpage, 6 guest lectures and seminars,
involvement of more than 80 students
Sustainable impact
• The course Portfolio and Practicum becomes a core course
• All CIL students graduate with a digital portfolio
becomes a mandatory practice
•Awareness of the importance of portfolio
• Extending the CIL community to key players and professional
in the art community including:
Secondary school, commercial companies, art and cultural institutions,
the local and international art community, and the public at large . . .
• “Theory as Practice” enforced as concrete experiences
inside and outside campus
TDG Project No. 6000135 PI: Dr Linda Lai
Reflection(1) The necessity to sustain a CIP through broad networking with
an extended notion of internship
(2) The difficulty of sustaining multiple expertise
for Portfolio and Practicum
(technicality, writing, presentation, narratives on artistic development . . .)
(3) The requirement of human resources to sustain
a comprehensive outreach programme
(4) The difficulty in evaluating the effectiveness of CIP
Suggested Improvements on Digital Portfolio
(1) Topics and tree structure could be refreshed
(2) In Consideration of the target reader (for Personal development, Documentation of educational experience in CityU, future employers or art curators in museums and
galleries . . .?) for the final submitted portfolio
TDG Project No. 6000135 PI: Dr Linda Lai