Given that the development and growth of doctoral programmes in art and design is a worldwide phenomenon, CCW is encouraging cooperative endeavours with National and International graduate schools. Following an invitation from Balàzs Kicsiny of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Doctorate School, Stephen Scrivener and Hayley Newman, together with CCW doctoral students Maria Isabel Arango, Marsha Bradfield and Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre have been collaborating with doctoral students and staff in Budapest on subjects of shared interest.
In October 2010, the CCW team spent a week in Budapest researching, together with Balàzs Kicsiny, Szabolcs Süli-Zakar, Laura Somogyi, Kata Soós and Nemere Kerezsi, the Csepel industrial region of Budapest, which up until the late 1980s was the city’s industrial powerhouse, but has since experienced a period of decline and renewal. This included a visit to a 1940s bunker that was used up until the 1980s for a range of purposes, including the preparation and training for survival in the event of nuclear attack. This visit resulted in an exhibition entitled Csepel Works at the Labor Gallery in Budapest, and Images of the exhibition can be found at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/csepelproject/5120321636/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/csepelproject/5120321636/in/photostream/
The collaboration will continue with a return visit of the Hungary team to Chelsea in July 2011, where the topic of focus will be the history of Millbank as an institutional site.
The ambition is to maintain an on-going cooperation between the two graduate schools through the additional of new participants on both sides in anticipation of future inter-college events that further the theory and practice of practice-based research.
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