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The Third Space: a paradigm for internationalisation

Harley A, James S, Reid E, Reid S, Robinson H, Watson Y. Chapter ‘The Third Space: a paradigm for internationalisation’ with case studies. Case study 3, ‘ East meets West’ (Harley, A). Book ‘The Student Experience in art and design higher education: drivers for change’ (2008) Cambridge: Jill Rogers Associates. ISBN 0 9547111 73. Published for the Group for Learning and Teaching in Art and Design (GLAD) supported by the Subject Centre for Art, Design and Media, and the Higher Education Academy (ADM-HEA). In 2007 GLAD elected to take a radically different approach to their annual conference, ‘The Student Experience in Art and Design: Drivers for Change’ by inviting leading international educators and practitioners in art, design and media drawn from the UK as well as SE Asia, USA, Australia and New Zealand, to an intensive writing workshop event with the aim of breaking new ground in art and design education. The results of this workshop were further developed by each research team and published in a book that subsequently provided the basis of the GLAD 2008 annual conference. The case study ‘East meets West’ was developed from a series of short essays recording the author’s first-hand experience of international development in a dynamic context of rapid growth in SE Asia and at a time when there was less published material on the distinct differences of the educational approaches and pedagogies in two diverse cultures. Direct comparisons were drawn from cultural, social and economic observations through the form a proposed collaboration with a Paris Fashion School, and Singapore as an aspirational centre for design and the creative industries in SE Asia. The cultural and historical diversity of both centres subsequently informed further work with the Department of Textiles in Tsinghua University, Beijing developing an inter-cultural perspective of practice based research.