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Tuesday November 15, 2006
Session 2: Final Group Discussions
(All personal concerns will be read as well and taken into consideration)
INTERVIEWS:
Mary McIntyre
Second year, Material Arts and Design
Paul Wilcken
Second year, Graphic Design
Hannah Smit
Second Year, Advertising
Lee Vosburgh
Second Year, Advertising
Highlights:
Think Tank classrooms should be made labs for implementable projects within communities. There were suggestions about facilitating this process by creating a system for submission of Think Tank ideas and the documentation of the final results. Ideas should be kept and used and exposed to students, faculty, administration and the outside community at large. That's what Think Tank is all about, right?
Also, raised again was the lack of community, identity and culture. Many other issues are interlinked with this which causes an even greater discouragement to get involvement in school activities.
ISSUES:
Activity
- Extra-curricular activities
- Community and activities that facilitate community
- Identity within school / individual programs
- Interconnectivity between OCAD students and streams
System/Structure
- Lack of Green space and practice
- Think Tank classes and some of the teachers who teach them
- Passionate teachers / passionate students
- Lack of technical focus in 3D areas
- Quality of teaching + quality of curriculum
- Not being taught programs but paying for it: having to take courses outside of OCAD at George Brown for learning AutoCAD
- Unstructured, inaffective tutorials
Access
Exposure
- Poor communication between students about events forums
IDEAS:
- Pub, intramurals, critiques, movies, faculty dinner, dance, gym, competition with other students
- Think Tank class used as a lab for ideas within the college and community
- Promote non-profits
- Better co-op programs
- Frosh – hire staff to organize events
System / Structure
- Institutionalize the ideas from classrooms
- Cream of ideas from Think Tanks can be implemented
- Think Tank option to Art students
- Create studio classes that combine art and design disciplines
- 3D Technical focus: less conceptual
Access
- Open studio- no productivity
- Photocopying access in the Main Building
Exposure
- Flatscreen TV of events and promotions
- Have an annual publication of the best of OCAD
- Put art design back on display
- Weekly events calendar in the lobby: well designed
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