Description:
NCAD is seeking to appointment a number of Part Time Lecturers to propose, develop and deliver Creative Futures electives, including examination and assessment, quality assurance and enhancement and associated administration. This is a Specified Purpose Contract. The purpose of these contracts is to support the ongoing development and delivery of appropriate transdisciplinary projects within the new Studio+ structure, supported by the Creative Futures Academy.
Permanent NCAD staff can apply for these roles, and if successful they would be back-filled to enable them to undertake the role/s.
The Creative Futures elective module provides a vessel from which a range of projects can be delivered. Please see attached Module Descriptor for further details.
It is expected that we will offer 5 elective options in T1 and 4 options in T2 subject to demand. Each elective will host in the region of 25-30 students.
The plan is to brief students of the elective options available in week 2 of the trimester, start teaching in week 3, teach for a further 9 weeks and then assess.
Please see below a range of indicative electives which we seek proposals for individual and /or staff teams to deliver:
- This elective will support artists, designers, makers and writers to develop an online platform. Learners will be supported to create websites using a range of appropriate tools and templates that can disseminate their practice, create online communities and showcase their research.
- This elective will support creative practitioners to publish their work online and in print forms, and develop an understanding of production and distribution.
- This elective will focus on forms and strategies of activism and engagement. Students will undertake an investigation of engaged practice in their field of interest, and share their findings to the wider group.
- This elective will explore the capacity of design, craft and applied art practices to act as a critical and collaborative agent of social, cultural and economic change. The elective will position design as a creative forum for exploring a dynamic, changing world full of critical, contradictory and provocative ideas. It would ask students to consider the potential impact of design on a range of contemporary commercial, social and cultural issues, and how one can design preferable futures by undertaking a selection of interdisciplinary design projects that address the big challenges of today.
- This elective will use performative, analytical and collaborative creative methods informed by theories and perspectives within the study of language, linguistics and communication, and varied traditions of art, design and media practice to foster a creative dialogue for students to reflect on the values and ideas that will shape and fuel their creative professional work in the future.
- This elective will develop entrepreneurial thinking and ideation for creative practitioners. Students will learn how to establish new creative ventures, new social initiatives and new lines of business within existing companies (intrapreneurship) or beyond what currently exists. The elective will provide students with the tools to develop their creative practice into viable business plans and funding proposals in a future-facing frame that nurtures and supports students and their work.