Editing Courses/Hybrid publishing/feedback (section)

== Feedback on publishing practice at WdKA: ==

'''What role do you see publishing playing in an art school?'''<br />
- A potentially important role, and for sure something that WdKA distinguishes from other academies. More and more art academies are planning to establish somewhat of a publishing practice within the academy. WdKA has already investigated in this and the question now would be rather content-related. How can one within art education develop content that is publishable?<br />
- I see publishing, both digital and on paper, as an important tool to share knowledge and also a way of self expression. <br />
- A major role, not only in different media but publishing is at the core of every art school disipline <br />
- That of course depends on how you interpret the term publishing. In either way I think it is a very important aspect of design in special, or in general even all disciplines within art education. Looking at the role art education can have as a ‚pioneer’ the academy would do well using more experimental ways of publishing for their own publications.<br />
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=== Do you have ideas of ongoing or future projects where publishing could play a role? ===

- Investigation in live- and cross-media publishing, in which encouters become leading force for the content production. Think of symposias, events, performances in and outside of the academy. <br />
- I think it could be really interesting to fit it into the illustration curricula. <br />
- It would be interesting to see how online and offline publishing go hand in hand<br />
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=== Can publishing be a research tool? And a teaching tool that can facilitate the students learning process? ===

- The exposure aspect of publishing could help to establish an urgency for projects. Sometimes create this urgency by inviting &quot;real&quot; clients. This &quot;reality&quot; aspect is often very fruitful but I think the urgency should not be introduced as exclusive for commercial projects. Students have to understand that all projects they do are potentially publishable and need sincere consideration and a responsible attitude. Especially for more theoretical classes a parallel publishing activity could help students to take a position, contextualize theory and engage in disucssion.<br />
- Publishing can definitely be a research tool and of course a great archival system. Digital publishing makes it very accesible for students and teachers to communicate amongs each other. <br />
- It can help distributing information of research happening now, and provide for a tool to gather new information<br />
- I guess so, although the more interactive forms of publishing seem to be more useful as a tool. In a way there are many possible ways to gather information through publishing or maybe it is (depending on what you consider „publishing”) very difficult to do research without. For now I think it is at least an extremely good example to show students that they are not necessarily bound to a fixed technical procedure (for instance the usage of Indesign) but there are actual possibilities to invent a different process.<br />
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=== What creative uses and re-uses can be imagined for hybrid publishing in your curriculum? ===

- Publishing practice, including content production, distribution and finding financial models, needs design-consideration. I believe the more experimental the approach to researching the question of &quot;How to distribute information&quot;, the better. I imagine cross-department collaboration, could enrich the discussion. <br />
- The same way the students get briefed to design a book telling a story, they could be briefed to do that on a digital platform. The limitations are very different to paper and I think this aspect isn't really taken into account in their curricula. <br />
- It can show the changable nature of disciplines, stimulating collaborations <br />
- Don’t know yet<br />
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