FUTURE UNKNOWN Global Education Plan 2017–2018
Central Academy of Fine Arts
FUTURE UNKNOWN Global Education Plan is an experimental exploration for future art and design education by a joint force of global institutions. Embracing the principle of cross-discipline, cross-time-space and cross-culture, it aims at pooling together global academic intelligence, gather global institutions and leading scholars, technical experimenters, futurists, design researchers, sociologists and business elites to forge a collaborative and double-win global Future Unknown platform, where experts gather, intelligence collides and multi-voices are made.
FUTURE UNKNOWN will initiate a “Global Education Community” with three steps of question orientation, teaching practice and education strategy, to forge a global innovative art and design education platform.
Starting with events impacting the contemporary time, FUTURE UNKNOWN will re-examine art and design in the contemporary context. Through the three consecutive stag-es of Compulsive Innovation, Youth Expressed and Education Absence, and with continuing events such as thematic sharing, roundtable discussion, education practice and chancellor summit , it looks forward to in-depth discussing and expanding the topics of future education, redesigning the modes of future art & design education and expand- ing the boundary of traditional education, in an effort to facilitate the construction of the new modes of future art & design education in China and to push forward the sus- tainable development of global art & design education.
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COMPULSIVE INNOVATION – Thought Leader Round Table
December 2017
100 hot issues relevant to education today will be collected globally through an open call on an Internet platform, which will serve as discussion topics for the Round Table guests. The Compulsive Innovation discussion will be interacting with international art and design institutions, and is expect- ed to provide insights, predictions and judgments, actively propose new ideas responsive to world structural transformation, and to generate new momentum for innovation.
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YOUTH EXPRESSED – Education Exhibition & Forum
December 2017 – May 2018
CAFA will invite institutions that have raised relevant questions in Compulsive Innovation to carry out in-depth research collaborations. Through a six-month education practice, the research workshops of educators and the educated will make a voice by way of a documentary presentation of their teaching process and achievements.
The teaching practice presentation is scheduled during the Graduation Season of CAFA, which will serve as a medium to form patterns of dialogue and discussion, provide continued references for discussions for future education development, and shape a Global Innovation Platform of University Students and Youth.
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EDUCATION ABSENCE – Chancellor Summit
September 2018
On the occasion of the Centennial Celebration of CAFA and centered on education leaders and strategy makers, a hundred chancellors/directors/presidents from around the world will be invited to CAFA for an examination of the Youth Expressed teaching practice and a discussion on the design of future education restructuring and strategy. During the forum, a strategic Global Art and Design Education League will be set up to aggregate leaderships making voices in global education, construct new modes of global art education and push forward the sustainable development of global art and design education.
With FUTURE UNKNOWN, CAFA seeks to integrate global academic and educational resources in art, design, science and technology and works with them to forge a culturally inclusive and sustainable global art and design education community, which aims at, based on predictions on future social patterns and economic modes, and in an active response to world structural transformation, nurturing future-oriented talents with global vision, creativity, social responsibility and independent cultural standing.
未知，欲知。未来，已来。
The unknown, will be known. The future, is here.
