John Carson Professor School of Art / CFA Jennifer Keating Assistant Dean & Special Faculty Dean’s Office & English/Dietrich College Illah Nourbakhsh Professor, Robotics Institute Art, Conflict & Technology In the North of Ireland • Interdisciplinary approach to a societal problem • Engage with the location and stakeholders through a field trip to the region • Facilitate students’ inquiry-based learning Lessons Learned: • Establish a shared vocabulary • Balance assignments and class time with dynamic content • Recognize implications of a Northern Irish case study in relation to other contemporary conflicts • Keep the class interesting with a variety of teaching and learning methods Project Evaluation: Acknowledgements: Center for Art in Society, CFA Dean’s Office, CIT Dean’s Office, Crosswalk Grant, Dietrich College Dean’s Office, Financial Aid Office, Office of International Education, Vice-Provost for Education, Gabriel O’Donnell, Anna Houck, Jennifer Weidenhof & Karen Weingartner. Clockwise from top left: 1. Touring Newtonards Road murals with Paul Donnelly 2. Patricia O’Neill at Northern Ireland Community Relations Council 3. Discussion with Brendan Clarke at North Belfast Interface Project 4. Interviewing Black Taxi driver in front of murals at Cupar Street Top: Class in session spring 2015 Bottom: Class in session 2016 Clockwise from top left: 1. Loyalist and Republican symbols made into refridgerator magnets. 2. Student presenting digital photographic montage 3. Republican side of Peace Wall model 4. Loyalist side of Peace Wall model Rubrics designed to assess proposals, projects, presentations, essays, and art works. Art, Conflict & Technology in the North of Ireland Art: 16-397 Robotics: 60-397 English: 76-369 Introduce a common vocabulary using Raymond William’s ‘Key Words’ Texts to illustrate range of writers’ and dramatists’ explorations of conflict & (post) conflict North of Ireland Teach students to work with emerging technology as a tool for exploring content in the course Examples of political, social and cultural influences of advancing technology on conflict and emerging peace Visual art to demonstrate variety of approaches and critiques of conflict and an emerging cold peace Course Design: Music Poetry Drama Visual Art Film Literature Discussion History Mee7ng Stakeholders Field Trip Making Technical Demonstra7ons Wri7ng Visitors Teaching & Learning Methods

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Page 1: Art, Conﬂict & Technology In the North of Ireland · 2. Student presenting digital photographic montage 3. Republican side of Peace Wall model 4. Loyalist side of Peace Wall model

John Carson Professor �

School of Art / CFA Jennifer Keating

Assistant Dean & Special Faculty Dean’s Office & English/Dietrich College

Illah Nourbakhsh Professor, Robotics Institute

Art, Conflict & Technology In the North of Ireland •  Interdisciplinary approach to a societal problem

•  Engage with the location and stakeholders through a field trip to the region •  Facilitate students’ inquiry-based learning

Lessons Learned:

•  Establish a shared vocabulary •  Balance assignments and class time with dynamic content •  Recognize implications of a Northern Irish case study in relation to other

contemporary conflicts •  Keep the class interesting with a variety of teaching and learning methods

Project Evaluation:

Acknowledgements: Center for Art in Society, CFA Dean’s Office, CIT Dean’s Office, Crosswalk Grant, Dietrich College Dean’s Office, Financial Aid Office, Office of International Education, Vice-Provost for Education, Gabriel O’Donnell, Anna Houck, Jennifer Weidenhof & Karen Weingartner.

Clockwise from top left: 1.  Touring Newtonards Road murals with Paul Donnelly 2.  Patricia O’Neill at Northern Ireland Community Relations Council 3.  Discussion with Brendan Clarke at North Belfast Interface Project 4.  Interviewing Black Taxi driver in front of murals at Cupar Street

Top: Class in session spring 2015 Bottom: Class in session 2016

Clockwise from top left: 1.  Loyalist and Republican symbols made into refridgerator magnets. 2.  Student presenting digital photographic montage 3.  Republican side of Peace Wall model 4.  Loyalist side of Peace Wall model

Rubrics designed to assess proposals, projects, presentations, essays, and art works.

Art, Conflict & Technology in the North of Ireland

Art: 16-397 Robotics: 60-397 English: 76-369

Introduce a common vocabulary using

Raymond William’s ‘Key Words’

Texts to illustrate range of writers’ and

dramatists’ explorations of conflict & (post) conflict North of

Ireland

Teach students to work with emerging technology as a tool

for exploring content in the

course

Examples of political, social and cultural