Study Abroad Programs as Means to Connect Culture, Art, and Design

Conference: The European Conference on Arts, Design & Education (ECADE2022)
Title: Study Abroad Programs as Means to Connect Culture, Art, and Design
Stream: Strategies for Promoting Cultural Sustainability
Presentation Type: Oral Presentation
Authors:
Hans Peter (Hepi) Wachter, University of North Texas, United States

Abstract:

This presentation examines a study abroad program as a means to promote the intersection of culture, art and design and help students across art and design majors to connect the dots between the three. The program offers students to visit two cities in Germany in a faculty led program, giving them a cultural and historic overview of relevant sites, artifacts and design examples to bring to light the relations between a shared visual world, constructed by visual artist and designers, and the impact to the culture of a society. A study abroad program can be larger than a consideration of visiting works of art or design as discrete objects, and can seek to examine the networks of culture in which these artifacts and objects play a role. While traveling, students had been engaged in examine social histories and resulting cultural influences, significant to cultural monuments and artifacts. Furthermore, oral histories on site, narratives from natives, offer an interpretation of the Zeitgeist and the interconnection to the art and environmental design.

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