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The 2nd WORLD CONFERENCE ON ARTS EDUCATION

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It is the 34th session of UNESCOs General Conference in October 2007 that decided the Second World Conference should take place as soon as possible and accepted the invitation of the Korean Government to host this event.

Following the ongoing preparation through numerous initiatives across the world, this conference in Seoul aims to promote and to reinforce the value of quality arts education for all, in developing a capacity for creativity in the 21st century for youth and all generation.

The significance and value of arts education has already been underlined and expressed in the “Road Map for Arts Education”, resulting from the First World Conference on Arts Education held in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2006. It is now the time to focus on encouraging the implementation of the “Road Map”. Furthermore, this new global encounter in Seoul of art education actors will target to highlight the socio-cultural dimensions of arts education and reinforce research and knowledge of practices, ensuing from new conceptual and methodological tools.

The 2nd WORLD CONFERENCE ON ARTS EDUCATION.

Call for Papers: 2nd UNESCO World Conference on Arts Education

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25-28 May, 2010, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Deadline for submissions:Â February 15, 2010

A call for paper proposals for the 2^nd UNESCO World Conference on Arts Education has been posted on the conference website.Â Â http://www.artsedu2010.kr/htm/en/program/401_callforpaper.jsp

Before submitting a paper proposal, contributors must register on the website.Â Â http://www.artsedu2010.kr/htm/en/program/301_regis.jsp

The following information was taken from the conference websiteÂ http://www.artsedu2010.kr/htm/en/con_info/101_greeting.jsp and from a message distributed by the organizers.Â It appears that organizers may now be accepting only abstracts submitted via the website although email and fax addresses are also provided.

Language

Abstract(s) must be written in eitherÂ ENGLISH or inÂ FRENCH.

English: English abstracts can be submitted electronically through the online system of the official website or

via e-mail atÂ 2010artsedu@korea.kr. We also welcome abstracts submitted by fax: +82 2 2075 6317.

French: We appreciate all French abstracts submitted via e-mail atÂ fr_artsedu@naver.com or also by fax: +82 2 2075 6317.

Conference Framework

Convened at the initiative of UNESCO, in close partnership with the Government of Republic of Korea, the 2nd World Conference on Arts Education will take place in Seoul from 25th to 28th of May, 2010. The Conference will bring together representatives of Ministries of Education and/or Culture from the UNESCO Member States, as well as various experts, researchers and practitioners in the area of Arts Education.

Researchers are invited to submit abstracts for paper presentations within the framework of the upcoming World Conference on Arts Education. Abstracts from any relevant discipline will be considered, provided they make an original academic contribution to the research of arts education and its effects. All workshop topics are listed in the Appendix 1 and also available on the following webpage:Â http://www.artsedu2010.kr/htm/en/program/201_detail.jsp. The Steering Committee will endeavor to schedule abstracts according to authorsâ€™ preferences but reserves the right to decide on the final form of presentation. We particularly seek proposals for research papers on the following topics within the realm of Arts Education:

Arts education practices after the Road Map: contextualizing the Road Map
Encouraging cooperation and partnerships: within and beyond school
Developing the capacity of arts education practitioners: education and training system
Reaching out to a diversity of socio-cultural contexts and specificities
Healing and relieving through arts education
Social and economic intervention of arts education
Evidence, language of advocacy: indicators of arts education, evidence-based policy making
Building information gateway: Arts Education Glossary and Observatories
Renewed language of arts education: Creativity, interaction between theory and practice

Seoul Design Olympiad

October 25, 2008newscenter of World Design, Indy Convergence, Seoul, Seoul Design Olympiad

For One more week, the Seoul DesignÂ OlympiadÂ continues. The goal is to promote Seoul as the center of World Design, and for 21 days (14 of which are gone) this festival is celebrating the commitment toÂ transformÂ Seoul into an eco-friendly metropolis. The theme is “Design is Air”, talking about out connection to nature, and thisÂ centralityÂ represents the “spirit of design in the 21st century.” They too are focusing on convergence. I have to give credit to the Indy Convergence (going into it’s second year in Indianapolis, and our second year of participation, this february) for inspiring the CSPA to use that word instead of conference, but it is nice to see it take focus away from conference.Â

If you’re in Seoul, you may already be there. But if you aren’t, this project, which some claim to be the largest plastic artÂ installationÂ (someone has called Guinness) is pretty great. We picked up on it from treehugger.com.

With bright plastic garbage collected in September, the Jamsil sports complex, where the SDO is occurring, has been transformed.Â

Click here to check out the article on treehugger