Monday, 14 June 2021
– Friday, 18 June 2021
08:45-16:30
Online
An ambitious opportunity to collaborate in real time with students and educators from across the world, exploring how cultures can facilitate, enhance and expand our understanding about ourselves, others, the world and create sense of belonging.
In Brief…
Connect … with other students and educators from across the world to explore in a rolling one week programme of formal and informal events
Choose … to explore the thematic strands that appeals to you; community, creativity, learning or sustainability
Engage … two hours per day in live events and two hours in self-paced activities between the 14th and the 18th June
Programme Information
Manchester Metropolitan University presents to you a 1-week programme of activities from the 14 – 18 June 2021 that will get you thinking about cultural perspectives on community, creativity, learning and sustainability in higher education by connecting with students and educators from partner universities across the globe, to share experiences, ideas and perspectives and learn with and from each other.
We’ll put together events and activities rolling through the week, and connecting you with students and educators across the world to collaborate, discuss and create. The programme starts with a live launch event to introduce you to the week and our special guests from different parts of the world will inspire you. Further live sessions will follow and take up about two hours a day (these may be at any time, as we try to sync up with multiple timezones!) with a similar amount of flexible independent and collaborative work.
You will choose one or more of the following strands:
Community: Explore ideas of ‘community’ with peers from across the world. Investigate community through practices of dress and social media. Enact a sense of relational identity through creating and curating social media selves. Question the presentation of self through dress and dressing practices on social media.
Creativity: Explore the concept of the everyday object as a way to share our cultures. Using a range of techniques such as storytelling, unmaking and making, we will reveal the meanings ascribed to objects and their cultural, emotional and practical value.
Learning: Explore how you see the future of learning in a global context. Can it/should it be different? Explore formal and informal learning as well as fixed and individually curated learning. Through a range of creative activities, design your own way of learning for the future.
Sustainability: Explore the notion of sustainability in cross-cultural settings and different academic contexts; see how sustainability can be embedded in teaching and learning to create authentic and stimulating learning opportunities that harness individual and collective capacities for cross-cultural thinking and action.
This programme is part of our virtual exchange offer and welcomes students from our partner universities across the world.
To participate in this activity, please send us an expression of interest and nominations by Friday 28 May 2021.
For questions and your expressions of interest and nominations contact us at exchanges@mmu.ac.uk
Please note that the exact event times will vary depending on the day - further information will be provided before the event begins. If you have any questions, you can contact us at exchanges@mmu.ac.uk.