Elements MA Outline

Outline
Proposals
Prompts

Outline Invited parties are currently being asked to offer ideas, which will form the foundation for a Master of Arts Programme. In the preliminary stages participants are asked not restrict the ideas to financial, physical, cultural or economic restraints, and should consider the Elements MA as both a hypothetical proposal and practical plan for an MA.

Trade is seeking ideas, which are not feasible within existing institutions, that fall outside of the traditional MA Fine Art set-up or focus on currently under explored or unexplored territory.

Under the working title of the 'Elements MA' the programme is intended to be an additional educational route for individuals, groups and networks engaged in the broad field of contemporary art production, mediation and interpretation.

To access the widest set of ideas Trade is inviting participants from a range of backgrounds and professions, including artists, curators, writers, architects, academics and individuals from existing institutions, to submit ideas.

The specifics of the programme will be adapted to the requirements and contents of the ideas/proposals submitted. For instance, it maybe relevant for the MA to be assessed and verified, in the conventional way, or it maybe relevant avoid verification all together and simply use MA as a titular description of a set of activities that together create an educational pathway.

The proposals will be collated into a publication and presented within exhibitions and events at Trade gallery, and on the Trade website.

Proposals

For example the ideas/proposals could describe:

- Components, forms or parameters of the MA programme
- A lecture, projects or activity within the MA
- A specific area of the programme such as facilities or teaching styles.

Proposals should be presented in a form relevant to the ideas - for example it maybe most appropriate to submit:

- A text describing the student - teacher relationship
- A video of a teaching method
- A photograph of a model of the MA building
Where possible please include a brief biography (max 100 words) of the creator/s of the element.
Where possible please send large image files CMYK, 300 DPI and any images with text 400-600dpi.

Please include copyright and ownership details.

Trade Gallery is currently unfunded so cannot provide financial assistance for the proposals.

Proposals are welcomed by email
post@tradegallery.org
or can be sent to:

Trade,
1 Thoresby Street
Nottingham
NG1 1AJ
England

Deadline June 1st 2010

Element Prompts

The following Element Prompts should be seen as guide and not an exhaustive, or restrictive list.
Structural Elements

- Length
- Location
- Costs
- Candidate/s Requirements
- Course Subtitle

- Programme aims
- Structure
- Student - Tutor relations
- Teaching Styles

- Facilities
- Workshops
- Essential reading

- Lecturers
- Taught Elements
- Guided Elements
- Free Elements

- Course Development and Review
- Creation of new Elements
- Learning outcomes
- Personal Development
- Marking Criteria
- Moderation

- Programmes identity
- Schools Visual Identity
- Where / if the programme would exist within an existing institution

Potential Element Subjects

- Practical Study
- Theoretical Study
- Historical Study
- Contextual Study
- Communication
- Practice
- Networking
- Contemporary Debates and Issues
- Critique Group/Self/External
- Self Sufficiency
- Economics
- Long Term Planning
- Strategy
- Goal Setting
- Confidence Building
- Blue Sky Thinking
- Interpretation
- Business Skills
- Administration Skills
- Negotiation
- Travel
- Experience
- Internationalism
- Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)
- Collaboration
- Arts Funding
- Education
- Art Interpretation
- Public Speaking
- Psychology
- Archiving
- Data Storage