Doing away with "the main man"

A Round-Table Discussion with the title theme: Doing away with "the main man"

A round table discussion among academics from the University of Nicosia, Cyprus University of Technology, Frederick University and European University Cyprus and professionals working in the area of Applied Arts.

A common concern for any graduate is life after university. Under the present economic climate this challenge is particularly acute for those students who choose to follow an applied arts career. As jobs dry up within conventional areas of employment the challenge for any practicing commercial visual communicator is how to forge new areas of employment.

Increasingly graduates from the broad area of design and the arts have met this challenge by diversifying and by adopting their skills to meet new existing markets of employment or even creating new hybrid practices. Thereby developing inter-collaborative processes for working across the creative disciplines either as individuals or as part of a team. It is also the case in such instances that creative panache is necessarily accompanied with entrepreneurial savvy and practical management skills that are learned as part of the need to survive and succeed.

Organizer of the event: Department of Design and Multimedia, University of Nicosia.

Contact: Maria Christoforou, Lecturer, Design & Multimedia Department, University of Nicosia. [email protected] , 22842200-22842210

Place: University of Nicosia, Unesco Amphitheater

Schedule of the event:
10.00-12.30 Round table discussion
12.30-1.30 Lunch/Break
1.30-2.00 Conclusions/Proposals

Language: English