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 A different invited editor, designer or curator will curate the features page each month. This will give a different insight into the diversity design practice that takes place in the north east of Scotland. This page will change in terms of format and outlook depending on the approach taken by the curator, editor or designer. It may for example be: a magazine page; a virtual gallery of design products or a critical review. There will also be an archive of past features. If you would like to be considered as a guest editor, designer, or curator then please contact us at info@creativeculturescotland.co.uk
To view more design related features click on: design feature archive Six Cities Design Festival (17 May - 3 June 2007)
Six Cities Aberdeen: Six Cities Design Festival In February 2005 a new biennial festival was announced to celebrate the contribution of design in Scotland’s cities: Scotland has six culturally distinct cities – Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness and Stirling – each making their own contributions to the creative industries, one of the fastest growing industries in the country. The six cities will host the country’s first nationwide international design festival from 17 May to 3 June 2007, celebrating Scotland’s creativity in design. Supported at the highest level in the Scottish Executive, by public and private bodies throughout the cities, and by an international ‘think tank’ of world-renowned design professionals, the initiative is hugely ambitious – no other festival in the world has linked all its country’s cities together in this way, and no other design festival has such far-reaching aims. The Six Cities Design Festival will be delivered by The Lighthouse, Scotland’s National Centre for Architecture, Design and the City. The programme for the Six Cities Design Festival is based around three related objectives. The first is to promote the role of design and improve the Scottish public’s understanding and awareness, to recognise that design is central to the functioning and aesthetics of our lives – our general well being and happiness. The second objective is to change Scottish business’s perception of design and the benefits it can bring. Inspired design can give business a competitive advantage. Many businesses already know this, and the Festival will celebrate these and convince others. The final objective is to raise Scotland’s profile at an international level, revealing Scotland as a country with a vibrant, forward-looking design sector, a thriving creative industry and progressive education, producing the designers and creative thinkers of the future. The Festival programme of exhibitions, events, keynote speaker programmes, and one-off happenings across the six cities will celebrate design, highlight a design theme chosen by each city, and engage the general public. To complement this Public Programme there will be ambitious Learning and Business/Design programmes with a comprehensive year-round series of events and activities out with the main Festival period. 
Six Cities Aberdeen During the Six Cities Design Festival, the objective is to celebrate design and architecture in Aberdeen reflecting the authentic identity of the city as well as highlighting the genuine success across boundaries for participants. The programme will develop a range of projects between now and the start of the Festival with the results being highlighted throughout the festival period that will offer new perspectives on how we live in the city. Many of the projects will offer the public the opportunity to participate and contribute their ideas. In addition to projects around the main theme, the public programme will include a range of projects covering various aspects of design to meet the three main objectives of the Festival. Invitation to Participate
The Six Cities team against the following criteria will evaluate submitted projects where appropriate:
Projects for the public programme that start before the Festival will be considered for inclusion in programme as long as the start date is not before April 2007 and will have a strong visibility within the Festival period. Projects can also continue after the Festival has finished. Six Cities Design Festival is supported by a comprehensive and wide reaching marketing campaign. All six cities will have generic branding throughout the city during the Festival. Projects that are included within the Festival programme will benefit from inclusion in the Festival programme which will reach a national and international audience, listing on the Festival website and inclusion on all PR listings. Participating venues will receive support from Six Cities in marketing their venue as part of the Festival. If you are interested, please submit your project proposal on the Application Form below. Closing date for applications is 8 December 2006. We will respond to applications by 21 December 2006. For further information please visit the Six Cities Festival website or to submit your proposal please contact: Aberdeen n.sacramento@rgu.ac.uk If you are interested in the public programmes of the other cities involved in the Six Cities Design Festival, please contact: Dundee Glasgow roland.gulliver@thelighthouse.co.uk Edinburgh joanne.brown@eca.ac.uk Inverness lucy@isleofeigg.net Stirling lauraaduncan@btinternet.com
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 Project Submission Form - Aberdeen (DOC 2.3 MB) Download time approx. 12m 60s at 28 Kbps Download time approx. 6m 60s at 56 Kbps Download time approx. 3m 38s at 128 Kbps Download time approx. 1m 38s at 512 Kbps Gateway Evaluation (DOC 161.0 KB) Download time approx. 1m 47s at 28 Kbps Download time approx. 0m 24s at 56 Kbps Download time approx. 0m 10s at 128 Kbps Download time approx. 0m 3s at 512 Kbps Design Nation - PR selection 2007 (DOC 61.0 KB) Download time approx. 0m 18s at 28 Kbps Download time approx. 0m 9s at 56 Kbps Download time approx. 0m 4s at 128 Kbps Download time approx. 0m 1s at 512 Kbps Design Nation - application form 2007 (DOC 135.5 KB) Download time approx. 1m 40s at 28 Kbps Download time approx. 0m 20s at 56 Kbps Download time approx. 0m 9s at 128 Kbps Download time approx. 0m 2s at 512 Kbps |
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