THE UNIT PROFESSIONAL PLATFORMS
This unit extends the students experience into the professional sphere, either through a practical project, research context, exchange, work experience, or other negotiated professional set of interactions with an external partner, groups of students and creative industry. Projects and placements take place within a set network of art, design and media organisations in the region, but can also be arranged by individual students if based on similar frameworks of professional development and experience. The PDP also takes place within this unit.
LAUNCH PROFESSIONAL PLATFORMS
WHEN • 10AM - THURSDAY 28 FEBRUARY WHERE • CAVENDISH CA C.1.01 LT
DEADLINES PROFESSIONAL PLATFORMS
• PROJECT CHOICES TO BE MADE BY 8 MARCH 4:30PM
To make your choices please contact the project lead - carefully follow any instructions to apply. You can contact the organiser/contact to make informal enquiries if you need to. When you’re ready you should send an expression of interest to the project lead. Please inform your tutor of your intention to work on any project and If you need any help with any of this you can contact in the first instance: •
Adriano Digaudio - a.digaudio@mmu.ac.uk
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Clare Calveley - c.calveley@mmu.ac.uk
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Antony Cross - a.cross@mmu.ac.uk
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Patrizia Costantin - p.constantin@mmu.ac.uk
Please note some options are limited and it may be appropriate for you to apply to one or more projects.
LEARNING OUTCOMES PROFESSIONAL PLATFORMS
On successful completion of this unit you will have attained and demonstrated Knowledge and understanding of: • applying successful strategies to establish a professional network and contacts with external agencies, SMEs, cultural and/or creative organisations and learn how those operate, communicate and how teams are managed. •
conducting a live project within a professional external framework of production, commission, funding structures and project management in creative industries.
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gaining substantial knowledge of the legal, ethical and regulatory frameworks that affect cultural production, manipulation, distribution, circulation, and consumption.
The ability to: • carry out various concepts and project management of external research and practice , or creative productions involving sustained independent enquiry; •
interact effectively and strategically with third parties, for example through collaboration, collective endeavour and negotiation
Assessment will be a portfolio and body of practical or theoretical work (depending on the nature of the project) and include documentation of the creative process and management as a reflective and critical account of interfacing with the professional domain. As part of this to reflect the PDP element it will also contain a critical evaluation of the individual work and authorship within a team and external strategy whilst indicating of where students want to locate themselves professionally. THIS BOOKLET DOES NOT REPLACE YOUR UNIT HANDBOOK WHICH CAN BE FOUND ON YOUR PROFESSIONAL PLATFORMS MOODLE AREA: 1B7Z9703
THE PROJECTS PROFESSIONAL PLATFORMS
THE PROJECTS PROFESSIONAL PLATFORMS
CLARE CALVELEY SELF NEGOTIATED PROJECT: A CASE STUDY
PROJECT SPECIFICS You can negotiate your own project if you feel it would suit your practice and studies more. You should look at the information in the Unit Handbook on your Professional Platforms Moodle page and discuss this further with your tutor to ensure you can meet your learning outcomes. CONTACT Your tutor to discuss your ideas and develop your self-negotiated project.
CASE STUDY For my Professional Platforms (Negotiated Option) project I explored my personal practice through the industry, and how my practice and concept can influence how the funeral industry works. To do this I placed myself as an investigator/journalist/observer/ researcher for the duration of the project, so when I finished the MA it gave me a good foundation of knowledge to start working from. I began the project by going further afield and visiting Venice, Italy. This location was chosen because of its architectural landscape, space, religion and cemeteries. I had been drawn to this Island for quite a while because its man-made, but it’s not temporary because it’s slowly sinking. This relates to my practice because it’s working with the idea of non-space and a transitional space. This also has a relation to the professional industry because the fact that Venice is sinking, affects how the funeral industry over there works, and how they deal with the body after death. Whilst exploring the culture of Venice, I began to approach the locals to try and engage a conversation about the funeral industry. This was made difficult due to language barriers; therefore, I had to resort to another way of communicating. I had to change my method of approaching people, and the best way to do this was through placing my practice in different scenarios in the city that attracted people’s attention. Whilst doing this I witnessed how dead bodies were transported from the home. This was done by boat, and the body would lie in a plastic container, which looked nothing like a religious or respectful item to hold them within. This was something I found quite shocking but also interesting, because back in the UK the bodies are placed within a coffin, which makes it clear to the public. The boat was also nothing specific and iconic, which represented what was being carried. Then the boat would enter through a hole in the wall, and doors would close straight after. During the trip I also visited the Venice Biennale 2017 to see how art is installed in unexpected places, since this was a strong vision for the future of my practice. I was also part of a Venetian art students college project, where she wanted an Art Director and Photographer to direct her accessories collection. After reflecting on my research trip to Venice, I investigated into two funeral directors, which take a different approach to their work. Most meetings were taken place after a funeral due to the confidentiality of the person and family. Looking ahead at jobs after the MA, I gained a position as a Graduate Teaching Assistant from September 2017, through conversations and meetings with staff on the BA Textile course. I then researched and held meetings with CELT at MMU, which helped me gain knowledge about Learning and Teaching within higher education. I worked on my professional development skills such as Art Direction and Photography during the project. I worked with two MA Design students as their Art Director and Photographer, for them then to create look books with their final collections. It also gave me a chance to practice my Graduate Teaching Position ready for September.
PLACEMENTS SELF NEGOTIATED WORK PLACEMENT
CONTACT Your tutor to discuss your ideas and develop your placement.. The Schools Placement Team on: 0161 247 1700 or AHplacements@mmu.ac.uk
BACKGROUND Students may negotiate to undertake a full-time work placement during Professional Platforms. This must be discussed with your programme tutor to establish suitability of the placement to your studies. The organisation of your placement must be undertaken with the support and guidance of the Placements team. In order to ensure your placement is a legitimate learning experience and will count towards your studies you must complete Manchester Metropolitan Universities Placement paperwork. It is the students’ responsibility to provide any placement information and the completed paperwork. For more information contact The Schools Placement Team on: 0161 247 1700 or AHplacements@mmu.ac.uk We define Placements and Work-based Learning (PWBL) as any period of vocational or academic activity where students engage with a third party as part of their programme of study, and where there is transfer of direct supervision to this third party. We do not expect placements to be finalised by the deadline 8th March 2019. However, you should have made contact with teh placments team and established an action plan to secure a placement by this date. Some links which may be useful in your search: MMU Specific: •
Man Met Career Hub - www2.mmu.ac.uk/careers/my-career-hub
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Engage Arts & Humanities - www.facebook.com/ManMetEngage.Arts.Humanities
External: Milkround - www.milkround.com Prospects - www.prospects.ac.uk Rate my placement - www.ratemyplacement.co.uk E4s - www.e4s.co.uk Target jobs - www.targetjobs.co.uk
EMMA MEEHAN / JOE NELLIST / JAMES HUYTON 1: LGBT Foundation – Annual Attitude Change Campaign
PROJECT SPECIFICS • The campaign will be launched on 17th May to coincide with the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, and will run till around midSeptember. •
We do not require participants to identify as LGBT, but they should support LGBT Foundation’s vision of a fair and equal society where all lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people can reach their full potential.
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Please send an email to Emma Meehan & Joe Nellist to express your interest in this opportunity.
CONTACT Emma Meehan, Assistant Director of Public Affairs - emma.meehan@lgbt.foundation Joe Nellist, Communications Coordinator - joe.nellist@lgbt.foundation James Huyton, Communications Coordinator - james.huyton@lgbt.foundation
BACKGROUND We believe in a fair and equal society where all lesbian, gay bisexual and trans people can achieve their full potential. Our work started in 1975 and we’ve been changing the lives of LGBT people ever since. Our work is as vital and urgent as ever. LGBT people still face persecution, discrimination and stark health inequalities. Each year we run a campaign to affect a positive attitude change to support us in delivering a fair and equal society. Our campaigns are born out of real issues affecting LGBT people at the time they are created. The campaign changes hearts and minds of the wider public, creates a positive affirmation for LGBT people and prompts those in positions of power to change their knowledge, attitudes and practices. In 2018 we ran a campaign entitled ‘I Am Enough, You Are Enough, We Are Enough’. This came in response to the toxic nature of the public narrative around the government’s public consultation to proposed changes in the Gender Recognition Act. Trans and nonbinary people came under attack, and we as an organisation needed to respond with a powerful message of hope, support and solidarity to ensure that all LGBT people understood that they should be free to express their identity however they choose, without fear of discrimination or hate. The campaign is organisational-wide, and runs through all of our services, programmes and communications. Each year we reach over 600,000 people online alone and so the potential reach of the campaign is enormous. The 2019 campaign itself has not been finalised yet, but will be centred around the following objectives: •
Our community is for everyone - celebrating diversity and challenging discrimination within LGBT communities.
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Our community is supported.
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Ensuring that individuals feel safe, accepted and proud of their identity.
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Protecting the progress we’ve made so far on LGBT rights.
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Giving confidence to allies who want to do something but don’t know where to start.
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Engaging new people and influencers with LGBT Foundation
BRIEF We are looking for support in the production and delivery of all campaign content, including creative ways to convey the messages behind the campaign. We welcome proposals from students as to how they would fill the above brief, and we are open to working with participants from a variety of creative backgrounds. Examples of creative could work include: •
Graphic design of all campaign materials for digital and print.
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Video / video series documenting the campaign and the changes in attitude as a result.
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Exhibition around the central issues and messages behind the campaign.
EMMA MEEHAN / JOE NELLIST / PETER BAMPTON 2: LGBT Foundation – 25th anniversary of the Condom and Lube Distribution Scheme (CLDS) campaign.
PROJECT SPECIFICS • Anniversary of the CLDS is 23rd-26th August – Manchester Pride weekend. •
Please send an email to Emma Meehan & Joe Nellist to express your interest in this opportunity.
CONTACT Emma Meehan, Assistant Director for Public Affairs - emma.meehan@lgbt.foundation Joe Nellist, Communications Coordinator - joe.nellist@lgbt.foundation Peter Bampton, Sexual Health Lead – peter.bampton@lgbt.foundation
BACKGROUND Our Condom and Lube Distribution Scheme is the longest running schemes of its kind in the country and the largest outside of London. This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the scheme, and we have been helping people to have happier and healthier sex since it launched. Every year we distribute over 90,000 safer sex packs across Greater Manchester. Each pack contains 2 condoms and 2 sachets of lube along with information about testing services and accessing PEP in case you have concerns of HIV exposure. We also distribute over 170,000 loose condoms and 85,000 sachets of lube to saunas in Greater Manchester in partnership with the Passionate About Sexual Health group. In 1994, Paul Martin OBE (current CEO of LGBT Foundation) formed Healthy Gay Manchester in response to ensuring men who have sex with men were at the centre of the response to HIV. HGM had a clear aim to reduce the incidence of HIV infection by offering free condoms and lube, providing sexual health information and counselling services to men who have sex with men. Volunteers packed every condom and lube packs every week and by 1999 they were packing 9,000 every Wednesday night to be distributed across 55 venues. Condom packs were redesigned as wallets and boxes produced to both store and display them. By 2002 over half a million condoms had been distributed and volunteers could no longer keep up with demand so packing was outsourced. In 2000 HGM merged with Manchester Lesbian and Gay Switchboard Services to form the Lesbian and Gay Foundation. In 2015 we became fully trans-inclusive and renamed to the LGBT Foundation. The CLDS has been running in association with Manchester Pride, and its predecessor festivals, since 1994 when 24,000 condoms and 24,000 sachets of lube were distributed over the August bank holiday weekend. BRIEF We are looking for creative ways to celebrate the history and impact of the CLDS, commemorate the early volunteers who made the scheme possible, and promote the future of the scheme. We welcome proposals from students as to how they would fill the above brief, and we are open to working with participants from a variety of creative backgrounds. Examples of creative could work include: •
Video/video series documenting the history of the scheme and the future of safer sex- eg. PrEP, ending STI stigma, etc.
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Photography exhibition celebrating people involved in the scheme and those who have benefitted from it.
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Celebrating safer sex products/materials- eg. latex fashion
PATRIZIA COSTANTIN 3: SYMPOSIUM / CONFERENCE
PROJECT SPECIFICS • 14 March – Meet the group – Brainstorming. The aim of this event is for students to get to know each other, share their research interests and work out a possible theme for the symposium. •
5 April – finalise the theme and call for papers, decide a date, secure venue and send out the call.
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10 May – invite speakers.
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We will meet weekly up until the 5th of April and then we can work a schedule that suits.
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There are 6 places available on this project.
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Please send an email to Patrizia to express your interest in this opportunity.
CONTACT Patrizia (Patti) Costantin – p.costantin@mmu.ac.uk
BACKGROUND Within the UK, there is a lack of opportunities for MA students to gather together, share their practice and network with their peers. This kind of opportunity exists at PhD level and is common for MA students in the States. The event would be student led and would also give the students (especially those who are thinking about doing a PhD) a glimpse of what a research-based degree involves. This is also an opportunity to invite and meet a representative of an art organization or an artist/theorist/academic that you admire and wish to get to know. The scope and size of the symposium/conference will be decided by the group and will depend on the funding that we will be able to secure. BRIEF You will be organising a 1-day symposium/conference on a theme of your choice. The event will include presentation by keynotes as well as Master students, making the symposium the first event of this kind here at the Manchester School of Art. The group of students involved will organise the event in all the details: Depending on expertise, this will involve: •
Choosing a theme and keynotes;
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Booking a suitable venue;
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Secure funding;
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Writing and circulating the call for papers/poster presentations;
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Collecting the abstracts and organising the peer review process;
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Selection and liaising with applicants;
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Defining and designing the programme (schedule, chairs, ...);
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Liaising with applicants, presenters and invited speakers;
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Organising the registration process;
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Budgeting (refreshments, fees, travel costs for speakers, etc.)
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Marketing and publicity, branding of the event.
MARCUS LORD / SIMON BUSHELL 4: THE FUTURE OF COMMERCIAL OFFICE SPACES FOR A HEALTHY WORKFORCE - BRUNTWOOD / HENSHAWS
PROJECT SPECIFICS • Ideally the final output would be a white paper capturing lessons learned. •
In order to fully understand the needs and concerns of those with impairments, students are encouraged to meet with representatives from Henshaws, and other relevant charities and organisations.
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Please send an email to Marcus Lord to express your interest in this opportunity.
CONTACT Marcus Lord, Manchester Met - m.lord@mmu.ac.uk Simon Bushell, Arts Co-ordinator, Bruntwood
BACKGROUND Bruntwood is a family-owned property company offering office space, serviced offices, retail space and virtual offices in the north of England and Birmingham in the United Kingdom. They own several high-profile buildings in the Manchester area, as well as in Liverpool, Leeds and Birmingham https://bruntwood.co.uk/ Manchester School of Art have been partnering with them on student focussed projects for many years and won the Best Business Partnership award together at last year’s Manchester Culture Awards. Henshaws is a northern charity supporting people living with sight loss and a range of other disabilities to go beyond expectations. They believe that, wherever they are, everyone has the right to an independent and fulfilling life. Their support, advice and training enables people and their families build skills, develop confidence, help each other and look forward to a more positive future. www.henshaws.org.uk BRIEF This would probably mainly suit any students interested in Interior Design, Textiles, Arts for Health and Product design, but could be of interest to others. Bruntwood are a large commercial property company and are interested in a ‘blue skies thinking’ project to come up with new ideas and concepts for the future of commercial office buildings. They are interested in finding out what they need to be thinking about when designing commercial interiors for people with different abilities (wheelchair users, people with sight loss, people with hearing loss, people with anxiety disorders and / or mental health issues). Students can research, discuss and come up with concepts, ideas, documents, models, prototypes to give an insight into how businesses should be thinking / planning for the future of their commercial properties (mainly mixed tenant office developments). Students could look at the interior design, furniture, lighting, foyers, office design, corridors, wayfinding, signage, etc. Areas the company is particularly keen to explore include: use of colour and texture in interiors, how they affect mood and well-being. How does it affect people? What does it mean to the internal environment? How should they be thinking about colour, texture and form when designing for those with impairments as they navigate commercial spaces? Students are encouraged to explore the following; •
Think about different users groups in cities where Bruntwood operate: elderly, visually impaired, physically impaired, those suffering with mental illnesses etc
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How do they interact with office spaces what are the challenges each face.
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The aim is to understand what ‘good’ looks like, how as practitioners should we all start to think - hearing loops in meeting rooms, perch seats in corridors, an understanding of how certain shapes, colours and textures might trigger emotions etc
ROSEMARY SHIRLEY / PATRIZIA COSTANTIN 5: TATE EXCHANGE LIVERPOOL EVENT AND FLIER AESTHETIC DESIGN
PROJECT SPECIFICS • The events will take place between the 5-12th of May. The deadline for the publicity material hasn’t been decided yet. However, we believe that most of the work will be carried out over the months of March and April. •
Please send an email to Rosemary Shirley and Patti Costantin to express your interest in this opportunity.
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This project has 1 space avaialble.
CONTACT Patrizia (Patti) Costantin – p.costantin@mmu.ac.uk Rosemary Shirley – r.shirley@mmu.ac.uk
BACKGROUND Tate Exchange Liverpool is located at the heart of Tate Liverpool’s collection display, Constellations: Highlights from the Nation’s Collection of Modern Art, on the first floor galleries amongst work by artists including L.S Lowry, Pablo Picasso, Sarah Lucas and Camille Pissarro. This year theme is movement and a group of Art History and Curating students – who successfully summitted an application – will organise a programme of workshops and activities which explore the theme of movement through a variety of themes: social choreography, the body, activism, etc. BRIEF The group is looking for 1 graphic designer to design the flyer as well as defining the aesthetics for the week-long series of events. The Tate have ideas on what they would like the flier to look like as it will serve a variety of purposes including a creative map of the space (which will be divided into a workshop area, an interactive space in which a community board will be installed for people who wish to share opinions and ideas, and a game/floor installation). The flier will also include information on the events and a series of prompts which aim to invite the audience to engage with the workshops, the community board and the game. This professional platform will require you to work with the team who is running the project.
CLARE KNOX-BENTHAM 6: SUBVERTING THE CLASSROOM
PROJECT SPECIFICS • MarketPlace Studios is in Stockport town centre, therefore you will be required to travel. •
Client consultation: date TBC
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MAY-JULY: consultation projects with young people either in schools or at Marketplace Studios.
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MAY-JULY: design training for all cohorts.
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JUN-JULY: collaboration with ETT students.
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JULY-AUGUST: communicating outcomes to external audience (eg Stockport community/ client/Stockport Council etc).
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BEYOND: opportunity for discussion for PP students to develop this project beyond deadline.
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DBS clearance is required for all participants which will be arranged once participation confirmed.
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Marketplace Studios, Stockport has limited access for participants with mobility issues please discuss this in your expression of interest so we can make arrangments.
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Because of the nature of the project (ie stakeholders and strategic partners) please send expressions of interest in the first instance to Clare Knox-Bentham. Participation will be allocated on suitability.
KEYWORDS Coproduction / enterprise / user experience / product design / interior and spatial design / learning / education / safeguarding / respect / engagement / community / innovation / exchange CONTACT Clare Knox-Bentham (client) - c.knox-bentham@mmu.ac.uk
BACKGROUND Marketplace Studios is an employability and enterprise initiative from Manchester School of Art. The studios provide School of Art graduate artists and designers with a place to set up their independent creative start-up businesses, while still being supported by the University through mentoring, business advice, talks and workshops. The ground floor project space is for art, design and craft workshops for everyone. We also have two shops - one in our ground floor space (and one at @CORNER/SHOP at No70 Oxford Road, Manchester). We are looking to change the project space into a community-based learning environment. BRIEF This consultation project provides a platform to discuss playful subversion of creative learning. Drawing on your own creative practice and creative learning experience, you will work in collaboration with young people as co-producers to envision an immersive environment designed to generate learning in community engagement and enterprise activity. •
Opportunity for PGT students/s to look towards Grimm & Co and its immersive learning environment as a comparative starting point.
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Produce a consultation report for provision of an immersive community education space servicing MMU students, local schools, community of Stockport, with a focus on creativity and enterprise.
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Working with Stockport Council & Stockport Cultural Vision Working Group to be relevant to the area and work towards futureproofing Stockport
You will act as the project managers: fact-finding and researching the town centre of Stockport and identifying the demographic needs; arranging consultation meetings with young people (access which will be facilitated by the Outreach team) either in or outside of schools; and producing a Phase 1 outline consultation report & business model. The Consultation Brief: The needs of young people (14-19) are not particularly well served by Stockport town centre currently. Opportunities for creative engagement is limited in school and very little provision is offered outside of school, or is prohibitively expensive. Most creative engagement for young people does not illustrate progression routes into how they can translate their passions and enthusiasms into sustainable careers. This project aims to provide a consultation report and action/business plan on how we as collaborative co-producers can transform the current Project Space at Marketplace Studios into an immersive, playful, creative learning environment to provide an area that young people will want to engage with and also provide a tangible talent pipeline into the creative industries. Once an outline vision is established, you will be joined by a student cohort from across all areas of the university who are participating in the Extended Third Term Pilot Project. You will work with this group to test ideas developed in the first phase, workshopping ideas of how to communicate visual literacy to non-creatives. This will again be co-production phase and could develop into a paid opportunity to develop creative outcomes with the ETT/ Schools groups such as (but not limited to) exhibitions, products, interior design, discussion or any other intervention that has been developed through the consultation process. This project should be designed as a self-sustaining model which can be handed forward annually to the following year’s PP/ETT cohort.
IAN RAWLINSON 7: ARTWORLD OR DEATH
PROJECT SPECIFICS • Teaching spaces will be; the Old Students Union and 99 Oxford Road. •
Students will meet weekly on Thursday mornings.
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There are 15 places on this project.
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Please send an email to Ian Rawlinson to express your interest in this opportunity.
KEYWORDS/ATTRIBUTES Art, Artworld / Fine Art / Contemporary Art CONTACT Ian Rawlinson - i.rawlinson@mmu.ac.uk
BACKGROUND Professional issues for artists. BRIEF A short courses of seminar presentations outlining the structures of the artworld and the competencies required for the practicing artist. You will gain an insight into the various structures that constitute the artworld, its historical formation and current expression.
EMMA HARCKHAM 8: BEYOND THE WALL FESTIVAL
PROJECT SPECIFICS • Festival will be in September, still TBC on actual dates •
There are 2 places available on this project
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Please send an email to Emma Harckman to express your interest in this opportunity.
KEYWORDS Film Programming / curating, festivals / management CONTACT Emma Harckham - EMMA.B.HARCKHAM@stu.mmu.ac.uk https://www.btwfest.com/
BACKGROUND Lead by a current MFA student and partnered with HOME, Beyond the Wall seeks to explore ideas of national and personal identity, globalization, and what it means to be human in our ever-connecting world. The US, the UK, and the world as a whole are grappling with these questions – how do they manifest in our art? BRIEF Showcasing films made by and/or centering on American expats, BTW Fest will culminate in a weekend showcasing shorts and independent cinema from filmmakers located all across the globe. Some of these films are political, some fun, and all are inventive and incredibly relevant to our turbulent modern times. We seek to facilitate a conversation, inspiring people to contribute their own ideas and leave inspired and enlightened by the contributions of others. We are also planning a series of Q&A’s and showcases leading up to the Festival itself in late September 2019. BTW Festival seeks MA students to assist in the research, programming, and organization of the Festival. You will be responsible for researching and curating films for the festival, assisting in researching possible panelists and contributors, and assisting with the organization of the festival itself. You will gain hands on experience with film programming, festival management, and research experience. You’ll gain experience working collaboratively with a variety of creative and interesting professionals, as well as contacts for a future career in film programming and festival curation.
MICHAEL POWELL / ANTONY CROSS 9: PEOPLES HISTORY MUSEUM PROJECT
PROJECT SPECIFICS • Interested students should speak to Antony Cross in the first instance to enable them to contact PHM’s Michael Powell and explore ideas going forward. •
This brief provides an opportunity for you to work alomsgide a significant cultural organisation and develop an outcome that meets the requirments and ethos of PHM, and your own practice and research.
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Please email Antony in the first instance to discuss this opprtunity.
KEYWORDS Protest / Collective Action / Creative Disobedience / Everyday Activism CONTACT Michael Powell - michael.powell@phm.org.uk Antony Cross - a.cross@mmu.ac.uk
BACKGROUND PHM is the national museum of democracy, telling the story of its development in Britain: past, present and future. The museum provides opportunities for people of all ages to learn about, be inspired by and get involved in ideas worth fighting for; ideas such as equality, social justice, co-operation, and a fair world for all. PHM’s year long programme for 2019 explores the past, present and future of protest, marking 200 years since the Peterloo Massacre; a major event in Manchester’s history, and a defining moment for Britain’s democracy. Opening in March 2019 the museum’s headline exhibition for 2019, Disrupt? Peterloo and Protest, forms a central part of it’s bicentenary programme. BRIEF Alongside the exhibition a gallery will become a Protest Lab, for individuals, communities and organisations to use as an experimental space for creative campaigning and collective action. It is within Protest Lab that we would like to provide a space for a collective endeavour or individual idea on the themes of –
Collective Action
Creative Disobedience
Everyday Activism
You will gain an insight into the structure of a large cultural space/organisation and the opportunity to establish professional networks with a cultural organisation. Additionally, the potential to deliver a live project from inception to completion, including experience and knowledge of project management, legal, ethical and regulatory frameworks that affect cultural production, manipulation, distribution, circulation and consumption.
JO-ANNE MOORE 10: ANIMATION/COMMUNICATION OF DIABETES FOR MANCHESTER FIRST AID TRAINING
PROJECT SPECIFICS • You will be required to work closley with Jo-Anne( the client) to understand the needs of the service and the service users. •
There is a need for a communication tool (animation) in the first instance - discuss with Jo-Anne to negotiate deadline. Through this dialogue you may uncover more in depth collaboration and will be able to discuss further ideas going forward.
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Please send an email to Jo-Anne to express your interest in this opportunity.
CONTACT Jo-Anne Moore - joanne@joannemoore.co.uk
BACKGROUND Manchester First Aid Training is a training company based in Manchester that was founded in 2016. Since its incorporation, the company now works with a series of high profile clients including Manchester Met, The University of Manchester, The National Health Service and a series of other public and private sector clients. Whilst the understanding of key first aid trends are becoming more apparent communication barriers still exist. The aim of this brief is to create animations that can communicate and engage with the public on matters surrounding the specific topic of ‘Diabetes’, which will then be used in further public engagement events and become a resource for Manchester First Aid Training in the delivery of the suite of training on offer to clients. Manchester First Aid Training delivers a series of training sessions, which can be tailored to an organisations individual needs. We are regulated by the First Aid Industry body and have achieved a consistent 5 star rating from our clients for our service. For more information on the company, the types of training we offer, our clients and accreditations please visit our website: http://manchesterfirstaidtraining.co.uk/ Our intention is engage users to travel inside the body of a diabetic patient through the animation and where they would visit the heart, brain and vascular system, and be engaged with the key challenges related to diabetes management. A useful resource of the type of animation we are trying to develop can be found here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9ivR4y03DE BRIEF •
To promote learning and understanding of the management of diabetes.
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To engage the audience through interactivity.
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To develop an understanding of the difference between Type 1 and 2 Diabetes.
DENA BAGI 11: ARTISTS, INTERPRETATION AND ENGAGEMENT - MANCHESTER ART GALLERY
PROJECT SPECIFICS • Students should be available on Wednesday evenings (c.3) during the term. •
There are 12 places available on this project.
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Please send an email to Dena Bagi to express your interest in this opportunity.
EXPERIENCE GAINED • Artists role in a gallery context • Contemporary gallery engagement practice • Ethics of engagement • Creative project management • Event delivery, including evaluation • Reflective practice and communication CONTACT Mentor: Dena Bagi - d.bagi@mmu.ac.uk Kate Day Manchester Art Gallery (Adult Learning Manager)
BACKGROUND Some contextual/theoretical information concerning galley engagement will be delivered at the start, and then weekly mentorship will be available for the students, to guide them through their response to the set brief. Sessions on effective project management, engagement design, gallery interpretation and evaluation are also delivered periodically throughout the term. Students are encouraged to form a strong working-group at the start of the unit, defining professional roles and responsibilities (marketing, treasurer, designer etc). They will be provided with project management frameworks, in which they can design and manage their outputs. The students are expected to programme a series of events, which will form part of the Gallery’s Wednesday Late’s programme. BRIEF How can artists, makers or curators form a bridge between a gallery’s collection to its visitors? Students must produce a series of events that seek to engage visitors effectively with the gallery and its collections, drawing on their individual skills, practice and ambition/s. Artists (students) are asked to respond to ideas around ‘The Useful Museum’ (Art Util), and the social ‘powers’ of art. A minimum of 2 events should be programmed, and there is a budget of £400. The gallery hopes to engage both the students and visitors in the concept of art being ‘useful’, and encourages students to use engagement methods such as performance, conversation and music/light within their events.
TOBY HEYS / DAVID JACKSON 12: MOOD / MUSIC PROJECT: AI, MUSIC AND YOUNG CARER LONLINESS
PROJECT SPECIFICS • There are two £500 bursary attached to this project for the successful applicant(s) or £1000 if it is just one student that is selected. •
Important dates will be confirmed and circulated to interested/accepted students.
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There are 2 places available on this project.
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Please send an email to Toby Heys & David Jackson to express your interest in this opportunity.
CONTACT Dr Toby Heys – t.heys@mmu.ac.uk Dr David Jackson – d.j.jackson@mmu.ac.uk
BACKGROUND Mood/Music is a funded community project led by researchers in the Manchester School of Art and the Gaddum Centre charity. It seeks to find ways in which digital music applications powered by AI can help young carers to deal with feelings of loneliness. Young carers are young people who spend a large amount of time looking after family members, such as sick parents or younger siblings. They rarely now that they are ‘young carers’ but experience higher than normal feelings of loneliness and isolation due to the extra commitments they face caring for others whilst trying to live a normal life. Over three workshops, young carer group will codesign music apps that can help other carers to deal with loneliness. BRIEF The project team seeks up to 2 students to develop compelling visual approaches to help showcase the project and realise the vision of the team and the co-designers. Each of the successful candidate(s) will work on one of the following tasks (depending on your study interests and quality of portfolio). EITHER Animation: Working with the project team and young carer co-designers, develop interactive avatars or sprites that can respond to sound and rhythm. This might be in the form of a set of interactive characters ( example: Gorilla performance animations) or more abstract animations that respond programmatically to music. You are not expected to necessarily be able to make interactive and responsive sprites but will work with the project team to prepare the sprites for use in an interactive application. OR Graphic and interface design: Working with the project team and young carer co-designers, develop the look and feel for digital interfaces and accompanying visual resources to provide a compelling overall experience for users of the technology in festival and community group settings.
GAVIN PARRY 13: NARRATIVES OF HOMLESSNESS SYMPOSIUM - HOME
PROJECT SPECIFICS • Everything ready for HOME 06/06/2019 Event. •
The symposium will map on to the brief objectives, in particular:
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To explore and consider innovative and effective ways of using the 60 second video format to effectively engage and communicate something about the experiences and the issues around homelessness.
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To undertake a process of knowledge exchange that considers innovative ways for /charities /participants/ students and academic researchers to the genuine benefit of all.
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Nice, collaboratively minded, pro-active and self motivated student/s welcome.
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There are 3 places available on this project.
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Please send an email to Gavin Parry to express your interest in this opportunity.
KEYWORDS/ATTRIBUTES Project Management / Charity / Outreach / Promotion / Publicity Social Engage Practice / Symposium / HOME / Film Festival / Event Organisation CONTACT Gavin Parry - g.parry@mmu.ac.uk
BACKGROUND Narrative of Homelessness is a project to collaborate with one of the five following Charity / Social Enterprise Partners: MUSTARD TREE / SHELTER / LOVE FOR THE STREETS / COFFEE FOR CRAIG / LIFESHARE We are looking for students/ recent graduates to work with one of these organisations, and to be part of a team to CREATE 60 SEC FILM /TIME BASED PIECES ABOUT MANCHESTER HOMELESSNESS. These will be film / animation/ sound / text / graphic time-based pieces that will engage informatively with some of the narratives and complexities involved around homelessness issue. This opportunity is open to all students / recent graduates from across the Faculty The work produced will be used for promotional/ campaigning purposes and professionally and strategically disseminated across social media platforms. The ‘films’ produced will form part of a screening symposium and commendation event at HOME on 06 /JUNE /2019. Each of the 5 charities taking part will work with a mixed group of 5 students / recent graduates, who will then work as volunteers, finding out about the charity and getting to know the people they help. Working either in mixed groups and /or individually, they will then produce one minute film / time-based-pieces. These will be made in partnership with the charity, and supported by consultancy, masterclass and drop in sessions. Further details about the project here: www2.mmu.ac.uk/artshumanities/students/narratives-of-homelessness BRIEF To project manage the symposium event, liaising with ‘Narratives of Homelessness’ (NoH) project stakeholders , to programme a ‘film festival/symposium, with key notes and speaker feeding into the strategic development of the event, and will take organisational responsibility to make it happen, and make it as relevant, inclusive and as useful as possible to the issues and stakeholders ( NoH participants / the charities / HOME outreach) As part of the research for the symposium ,it is envisaged that you will work closely with NoH , the charities and participate in project meetings with researchers and charity link persons etc.
GAVIN PARRY 14: CARDBOARD CATWALK - MUSTARD TREE
PROJECT SPECIFICS • As this is a ‘live’ and evolving project opportunity, the ambition and parameters have yet to be fully explored or developed. At the moment the minimum expected outcome will be a cardboard catwalk, open to an audience at Mustard Tree. •
The catwalk will take place in late June at Mustard Tree - 110 Oldham Rd, Ancoats, Manchester M4 6AG. Final date TBC
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Please apply to this project via an expression of interest (EOI) to Gavin. You can use the EOI as a way to state additionally what you can / wish to bring to the project.
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Sensitive, collaboratively minded, pro-active and self-motivated student/s very welcome.
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There are 4 places available on this project.
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Please send an email to Gavin Parry to express your interest in this opportunity.
SKILLS GAINED Socially Engaged Practice / Collaboration / Project Management skills / Workshop participation / Workshop development and management experience / develop interpersonal, listening skills - value the importance of process over product, coproduction over auteur practice . Importance of creativity workshops to give voice and to self- expression and story telling KEYWORDS Collaboration / Workshop / Social Engaged Practice / Homelessness / Performance / Story telling / Event planning CONTACT Gavin Parry - g.parry@mmu.ac.uk
BACKGROUND We have and continue to develop a good creative partnership with Mustard Tree, across a number of projects and joint initiatives. They are an excellent organisation working to change the lives of people who have experience of homelessness. They are a warm and dedicated team. Mustard Tree: tackling both the causes and consequences of poverty and homelessness. Located in Ancoats, Mustard Tree has transformed the lives of people in Greater Manchester who are trapped in poverty or homelessness, by enabling them to gain the skills and self-confidence they need to reach their full potential. http://www.mustardtree. org.uk/ In addition to this partnership, the project has evolved from conversations and activities with other events and organisations such as Love for the Streets / With One Voice and from the pedagogical and research interests of a number of Art school staff from across a range of programmes . The project will be supported in an advisory capacity, at the very least, by the experience, expertise and subject interest of MMU staff: Lesley Raven (FAD) / Joan Beadle (Foundation) / Ella Marshall (GTA Love for the Streets) / Dominic Sagar (Architecture) / Marcus Lord (External Liaison Manager) / Dena Bagi (PhD student) BRIEF To work with Mustard Tree on the planning/ preparation / co-production and realisation of a cardboard catwalk. An event based on the fashion catwalk, but shaped and created by people with lived experience of homelessness: The catwalk show to be held at Mustard tree in late June 2019) which will be a culmination of cardboard garments / structures etc developed and made during a number of workshop sessions The project working methods will be shaped around a socially engaged practice models where collaboration, dialogue and co-production is both the work and the process. The outcome shaped by this process. Teamwork and Leadership: You will be part of this team, and you will be contributing to the realisation and success of this. Working within this framework, there will be space here for you to take some responsibility and lead in some aspects of the planning, development and implementation of the project – for instance, the project management / workshops contribution / design and curation of show / documentation of process and event / utilising the potential for legacy work (i.e. using the project to give voice to some of the stories from those with lived experience of homelessness. These to be worked up into a book or moving image). How you navigate the teamwork and leadership responsibilities, and how position yourself an effective contributor to the success of project is an important part of this process.
GAVIN PARRY 15: THE NEO SCREEN FESTIVAL 2019 BRUNTWOOD
PROJECT SPECIFICS • NEO is located on Charlotte St, Manchester M1 4ET. •
Expressions of Interest (EIOI) Deadline to Gavin by Friday 08th March 2019.
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Festival time pipeline to be developed by the Group in liaison with Bruntwood – for Festival launch September 2019.
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Although the screening will run from September to December 2019. The project involvement can finish September 2019, after launch evening / snagging completed.
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Ambitious, film loving, collaboratively minded, pro-active and self-motivated student/s very welcome.
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There are 4 spaces available on this project.
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Please send an email to Gavin Parry to express your interest in this opportunity.
SKILLS GAINED Theme setting / Collaboration / Project Management skills / budget management / Events and festival organisational experience / Programme development KEYWORDS Project Management / Collaboration / Site specific / Publicity / Film Festival /Event Organisation CONTACT Gavin Parry - g.parry@mmu.ac.uk Simon Bushell: simon.bushell@bruntwood.co.uk
BACKGROUND The second year for the festival. MSoA has developed a strong creative partnership with Bruntwood across a number of projects and joint initiatives. We piloted this last year with success and are now looking to ambitiously build upon that success. BRIEF To shape, organise, and realise the Neo Screen Festival: the group will have control over: Setting the festival theme; managing the call out and the selection process to commission the work; support with the development and realising of the work for the site. Curate the work for the ‘screen festival’; drive the publicity, design, festival branding and advertising /social media strategy The selected students will be part of the film selection panel with a representative of Bruntwood, MA Home Tutor/s and Gavin Parry. Aside from this, it is envisaged that all other aspects of the project will be student shaped and managed: There is a budget to support the commissioning of work and will be paid as an Artists Fee for the selected work. Parameters: •
It is envisaged that there will be 4-6 commissioned pieces.
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Commissioned pieces will be expected to be shaped to work to the site’s specific format.
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Sound possible / optional, but needs to work to site.
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Bruntwood will reserve the right to not screen content that may be unsuitable on a open, public facing site.
MORE INFORMATION PROFESSIONAL PLATFORMS
Each project should be viewed as a professional opportunity and when contacting the organiser you must keep this in mind. Do check that you are suitable for the opportunity first. You can do this by reading the information for each project carefully and noting what is required of a successful candidate. You can contact the project lead to make further enquiries to further inform you in your choices and expression of interest. Please note all choices and expressions of interest should be made ahead of the deadline on Friday 8th March at 4:30PM. Include the following in your expression of interest or emails to the project lead: •
Why you are contacting them.
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How you can contribute to their project in line with their brief and requirements.
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Include information about you, and your experience and skills.
If you are emailing to the project lead to gather more information before your final expression of interest, this should be much less information than above. Be as clear and concise as possible. Where relevant you can also send links/images of your portfolio to the contact. This would be especially beneficial to the visual communication projects. Again, you can always send an informal email to the project lead to ask what they would prefer to receive if you’re unsure. Please be aware that spaces on some of the projects are limited. Therefore it may be appropriate for you to make more than one enquiry/expression of interest. The project leads will aim to let you know the outcome of your expressions of interest or arrange a meeting/follow up as soon as possible, but we have requested this should be no later than 15th March. If you are unsure about any of this, you can contact the following staff who will be able to guide you: •
Adriano Digaudio - a.digaudio@mmu.ac.uk
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Clare Calveley - c.calveley@mmu.ac.uk
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Antony Cross - a.cross@mmu.ac.uk
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Patrizia Costantin - p.constantin@mmu.ac.uk
You should additionally speak with your tutor about your intentions. This will ensure your project choice will enable you to complete your studies for this unit. This will be a useful exercise to help you establish how you will develop through your involvement.