CIRRUS is a Nordic-Baltic network of Art and Design higher education. There are 20 excellent art and design schools from the Nordics and the Baltics in the circle of this cooperation. The central activities of the partner institutions are art and design, including innovative activities, technical development and artistic practices.

CIRRUS express course in Lithuania

Title: Design based insight creative workshop
Dates:  September 14‒22, 2015
Place: Nida Art Colony (Vilnius Academy of Arts), Lithuania
Language: English
Credits: 3
Number of Cirrus BA students: 2
Please send a motivation letter to Prof. Aušra Lisauskienė ausra.lisauskiene@vda.lt
Deadline: July 15st (response about acceptance will be sent on the 20th of July)

Facilitators
 Prof. Aušra Lisauskienė, Prof. Audrius Klimas (Vilnius Academy of Arts),  Prof. Julia Ojapelto (Lahti institute of Design and Fine Art)

Description
Communication is one of the most important forms of human interaction. Assuming that games can encourage communication among total strangers the workshop in Nida intends to develop new games based on communication forms.
The analysis of the space, signs, rituals and habits will be done in the beginning of Cirrus express course.  Summarizing this data will help students working in groups of 3-4 to create new communication strategies in the public domain. Strategy based communication schemes/games will be created afterwards as well as their scenarios and visual communication parts. The aim of the workshop is to create new communication schemes/games in Nida public space.
These schemes/games will be tested among students, residents of Nida Art Colony and vacationers in Nida town.