The fifth and last pre-workshop session: all questions answered

The last on-line session before the actual MC2020 workshop in Liepaja was hosted by the Latvian hosts on Thursday, two days before the teams from Hilversum, Lincoln, Tampere and Vic meet at Riga airport to take a joint bus to Liepaja.

Project manager Anna Trapenciere (left) and project coordinator
Livija Daudze (centre) told about arrangements and answered the questions

The staff and students of Liepaja University Art Research lab have prepared two useful documents for the guests; one with practical information about hotels and the arrangements, another with all possible information about Liepaja the visitors might wish to have.

On the Facebook coffee room of the project host students have also given answers to many questions.

Participants from eleven countries
MC2020 is a project by five universities in five countries (Finland, Latvia, The Netherlands, Spain and United Kingdom. More countries and nationalities are however represented, because the teams from Utrecht School of Arts (HKU) and Tampere UAS (TAMK) are very international. The members of HKU team come in addition to Netherlands from China, Latvia and Spain and members of TAMK team from Finland, Israel, Latvia, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia and South Korea.

Fourth pre-workshop session: Design Processes and Methods

The fourth pre-workshop started with  lecture by Lenno Veerhoog on de-constructing, dissecting and reconstructing ideas in order to transform them into brilliant concepts in which all elements - and even the universe - connect.
The lecture’s content was based on one of  the Concept-models which is developed at HKU (Utrecht School of the Arts) and addressed a number of possible stages and interconnected relations in concept-development.
First set of presentation slides here
Concept format HKU

Lenno Veerhoog

From the presentation

From HKU

From Lincoln

From UVic

Also Liepaja and Tampere participated, sorry, no Hangout snapshots

The MC2020 team from Vic introduce themselves

The MC2020 student team from Vic University in Barcelona present themselves with the video you can find below.

 The first team to introduce themselves were the Utrecht School of Arts students. You can find the Dutch team presentation here: https://vimeo.com/75336386

They are lost, sure. But this is a screenshot. Please find the video below

Lost Uvic.MC2020 from alba9 on Vimeo.

Third pre-workshop presentation today - interrogating media in 21st century

The third MC2020 on-line pre-workshop presentation took place today hosted by Lincoln University. Martyn Thayne's lecture was titled "Interrogating Media in the 21st Century: Responding to an Emerging Digital Ecology."

The session was followed in Hilversum, Liepaja, Vic and Tampere by a big crowd.

We are learning new things about Google hangout in every session. Now we know how you can share slides in full screen. The Latvian delegation found also the mask department.

Please find the presentation here

In Lincoln...

Vic University

Utrecht School of Arts

Some of TAMK participants

Liepaja participants test Hangout effects - hats and beards

Second Pre-workshop Lecture of the 2nd Edition - Ubiquitous Media

Björn Stockleben was the second lecturer to give a MC2020 pre-workshop lecture. Björn is head of the jury of NUMA, a global contest for ambient and ubiquitous future media. Björn is also
Coordinator of MA Cross Media at University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal.

Björn made this presentation over Google Hangout in Magdeburg, Germany.

The presentation was followed by MC2020 lecturers and students in Vic (Spain), Hilversum (The Netherlands) Lincoln (UK), Liepaja (Latvia) and Tampere (Finland).

The session was produced and hosted by TAMK, Tampere, also partner of NUMA.

Björn Stockleben

Participants in Liepaja

Participants at HKU, Hilversum

See NUMA winners - the Future Media
You can find the slides of the presentation here soon.

First Pre-workshop of the 2nd Edition

The first plenary was followed by students from HKU, TAMK and UVIC, ready to start working for a superb second edition.

The meeting was held in UVIC, the 7th of October, 2013. It was partly done in Blackboard Collaborate and partly through Google Hangout. The topic was Is There a European Transnational Culture? and students where asked to reflect about transnational media contents to design really new concepts on the basis of culture/s.
See the presentation by Rosa Pons

Team HKU, Hilversum (Utrecht School of Arts)

Vic University. The lecturer of the session Rosa Pons on right

TAMK - Tampere University of Applied Sciences

Media Culture 2020 SG has started

The first European Media Culture 2020 (MC2020) was brilliant, and the organising partners got funds from EU Erasmus Programme to continue the project.

October 26th - November 8th fifty students and ten professors will meet in Liepaja, Latvia to create demonstrations of what they think could represent European media culture in the upcoming twenties. On this blog you can see five concepts created in the first workshop in Tampere in April.
The students of the second MC2020 workshop will develop further those concepts to scripts and demos.

The project coordination team has had weekly meetings on line since
early September

The workshop has already started on-line with students organising themselves in five teams and introducing themselves to other students coming from Liepaja University (Latvia), University of Vic (Spain), Utrecht School of arts (the Netherlands), University of Lincoln (UK) and Tampere University of Applied Sciences (Finland).

Screenshot from the first video of MC2020 - Second Generation.
While waiting for more new videos please view the videos by the
first workshop students you can find on this blog.

The on-line teams with members from all five partner universities will start writing the scripts over three weeks before the workshop using joint wiki documents, chats and Google hangouts for communication. The project also has a coffee room on Facebook.

Each partner will also host a video conference featuring a lecture. University of Vic will start tomorrow (October 7) with the topic "International Communication in Action". One of the key objectives of MC2020 is that students learn working methods of the 21th century working life. That is one of the reasons why the work starts in virtual work spaces.

The Dutch team has already prepared a hilarious video to introduce themselves. You can view it below, please please enjoy!


Energeia - group presentation for the Media Culture 2020 project from Energeia on Vimeo.