What is the aim of Digital Tools for Creative Collaboration?
The aim of this art and design-oriented project is to engage teachers, students, and staff from art and design schools in a collective reflection on the challenges presented by online collaboration for creative purposes. Through a critical lens, we seek to raise awareness about 'good practices' and the ecological impact of these new working methods, as well as the responsibilities associated with data processing, data security, etc. Additionally, this project provides a valuable opportunity to collaborate with international partners who share our concerns and inquiries about art and design education.
With the DTCC project, our aims are as follows:
- Build a critical thinking regarding collaborative tools employed within our schools.
- Analyze the notions of collaboration, cooperation, contribution and participation in relation to art and design practices.
- Engage in collective prototyping of tools for creative collaboration that align with our specific practices.
- Conduct research on the development of situated tools for collaborative projects by artists and designers.
- Equip students, teachers and staff in art and design Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) with the necessary skills and tools, ensuring sustainable conditions for digital creative collaboration.
- Involve students as collaborators by involving them in each step of the project for pedagogical purposes.
- Examine at our own international collaboration scenario as a case of study.
To achieve these goals, the consortium has or will:
- Conduct exploratory research on collaborative digital practices in art and design higher schools.
- Develop and test prototypes of collaborative games, software and interfaces for the creative sector.
- Create "ourcollaborative.tools", an online catalog of participatory artistic collaborative projects based on digital tools. The catalog can be accessed at: ourcollaborative.tools
- Present the project outputs through three exhibitions, one hosted at each of the partner schools.
Three intensive international workshops, serving as significant milestones of the project, have been organized to actively engage and involve all interested participants in the development of DTCC. The work initiated during these brief workshops often continued during subsequent classes.
Additionally, several events have taken place or are planned to showcase the project's results and enable us to reach a wider audience:
- openschool.art professional meetings and its presentation at the Le Monde Sinon Rien exhibition during the Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne 2022. openschool.art had a second edition organized by ENSAD Paris in March 2023.
- IxDA Seminar at EKA Tallinn.
- International Seminar Week (ISW) at HfG Schwäbisch-Gmünd;
- OpenOpen event at ESAC Cambrai.
- Exhibitions at EKA, HfG and ESADSE, each offering a similar yet unique experience.