Pharmacy and graphic design students
from around the world collaborating online
to raise public awareness of critical health issues in Kenya
The Omnium Project (Australia) is pleased to introduce its latest international online creative collaboration - Visualising Issues in Pharmacy. The VIP project will challenge a diverse body of students and educators to address important global health issues, by producing detailed research reports and subsequent graphic and visual communication campaigns for implementation in specific local hospitals and health centres in Kenya, Africa.
Over 50 pharmacy students and 50 design students will join forces for three months (April - June) with project convenors, teachers and special guests worldwide, to work collaboratively within Omnium’s fully online learning environment. Participants will form valuable connections with colleagues in distant parts of the world, receiving regular feedback and support from peers, teachers and established professionals, using the Internet as their sole communication tool.
This unique and innovative approach to collaborative education, research and ethical debate, also aims to promote increased social awareness and proactive involvement worldwide amongst students, pharmacists, health organisations, graphic designers, professional bodies and education institutions.
VIP is the second in a series of free, non-profit, international Creative Waves* projects for students and their teachers and will form the world’s first fully online education project that links students and teachers from Pharmacy and Graphic Design departments from universities and colleges around the world.
VIP is produced, directed and funded by The Omnium Research Group at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales (Australia) and written in collaboration with the School of Pharmacy (University of Auckland, NZ).
* The first Creative Waves project took place over a ten-week period during 2005, linking over one hundred photomedia and graphic design students and their teachers from 35 colleges in 22 countries around the world. Participants interacted in small design teams (where no team member was in the same geographic location) to challenge and respond to an unfolding and conceptual design brief.
http://creativewaves.omnium.net.au/030405/outline/
Creative Waves are non-profit online projects run free for students. If you are involved in the media and interested in using your resources to help promote the VIP project, please click on the button below to access a Media Kit, or contact Omnium founder and director Rick Bennett.
The College of Fine Arts The University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia
School of Pharmacy University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand
Omnium Research Group College of Fine Arts The University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia
