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INSTITUTE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES
Call for Applications - 2004 Program
For further information and an application form:
http://www.institutewithoutboundaries.com
Telephone: (416) 415-5000 ext. 2103
The next program begins in January, 2004.
Applications must be received by October 17, 2003.
The Institute without Boundaries (IwB) is a one-year, post-graduate
interdisciplinary design program located within the Bruce Mau Design
studio and offered in partnership with George Brown - Toronto City College.
We're looking for exceptional people to join the Institute without
Boundaries 2004 team. Our aim is to produce a new breed of designer who
can articulate possibilities -- one who is, in the words of Buckminster
Fuller, "a synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist,
and evolutionary strategist."
Each year, we will select ten applicants from an international pool who
will spend twelve months inside the Bruce Mau Design studio in Toronto,
working as a team to research, design, and realize an ambitious public
project. Applicants will have undergraduate or professional experience
and will be drawn from a diverse range of backgrounds including the
sciences, arts, and design disciplines. The IwB student team will engage
in the fullest range of creative practices, from research and writing,
to design in myriad media, and project management.
The inaugural year has been an intense and productive experience for
everyone involved. The 2003 IwB team is a close-knit group of six
dedicated and talented individuals from Mexico, USA, Canada and Europe,
with backgrounds in journalism, psychology, science, design, publishing,
communications, and architecture. Working closely with Bruce Mau,
program director Greg Van Alstyne, and members of the BMD studio, the
IwB team has been laying the foundations for Massive Change, an
international project on the future of design.
Massive Change is built around the view that design -- the human
capacity to plan and produce desired outcomes -- has placed us at the
beginning of a new, unprecedented period of human possibility.
Engineered as a questioning discursive project, Massive Change maps the
new territories of design practice, from the built environment to
radical innovations in transportation technology, materials, energy,
information, software, and living organisms. Massive Change delineates
both the utopian and dystopian possibilities of a world in which nature
is no longer a realm outside of our manipulation.
Between now and 2006, Massive Change will embody an international
touring exhibition commissioned by the Vancouver Art Gallery, a book
published by Phaidon Press, a feature film project, radio program,
public events, a product line and an evolving web site at
http://www.massivechange.com/.
During the 2004 program, students of the Institute without Boundaries
will be responsible for a wide range of outcomes, including the public
opening of the Massive Change exhibition in Vancouver, adapting the
exhibition for its first tour venue, and enlarging it for a major
European cultural exposition. The team will also plan and produce the
Massive Change feature film project, the online forum, and a series of
public events featuring pre-eminent designers, writers, scientists, and
intellectuals.
For further information and an application form:
http://www.institutewithoutboundaries.com
Telephone: (416) 415-5000 ext. 2103
The next program begins in January, 2004.
Applications must be received by October 17, 2003.
If you wish to be added to the IwB mailing list, please reply to
institute@brucemaudesign.com with the word ADD in the subject line.
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