{"id":392,"date":"2022-03-04T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/wilsondesignloop\/?p=392"},"modified":"2022-08-29T15:29:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T22:29:16","slug":"the-art-of-collaboration-kpu-history-and-wilson-school-of-design-visually-display-global-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/wilsondesignloop\/2022\/03\/04\/the-art-of-collaboration-kpu-history-and-wilson-school-of-design-visually-display-global-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Collaboration: KPU History and Wilson School of Design visually display global connections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:100\">The university\u2019s history department teamed up with the Wilson School of Design for the first time to 3D print a world map showing every mention of each country in a regional newspaper over three decades in the early 1900s.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">Via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kpu.ca\/news\/2022\/02\/16\/art-collaboration-kpu-history-and-wilson-school-design-visually-display-global\">KPU Newsroom<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The connectedness of north east India to the world 100 years ago has been strikingly demonstrated through a pioneering history project at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"3D Printing the Past \/ KPU History \/ Teaching &amp; Learning Innovation Fund\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/667523377?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"616\" height=\"347\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOne of a historian\u2019s main roles is to challenge stereotypes,\u201d says history instructor Dr. Kyle Jackson. \u201cIn Mizoram, the region I study in north east India, one of the most enduring stereotypes is that the peoples of this upland mountain in the eastern Himalayas are somehow remote, isolated, or cut off from the dynamic processes happening elsewhere, in South Asia and the rest of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/wilsondesignloop\/files\/2022\/08\/FMdfaYrVEAAuCP3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/wilsondesignloop\/files\/2022\/08\/FMdfaYrVEAAuCP3.png 900w, https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/wilsondesignloop\/files\/2022\/08\/FMdfaYrVEAAuCP3-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/wilsondesignloop\/files\/2022\/08\/FMdfaYrVEAAuCP3-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/wilsondesignloop\/files\/2022\/08\/FMdfaYrVEAAuCP3-816x408.png 816w, https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/wilsondesignloop\/files\/2022\/08\/FMdfaYrVEAAuCP3-400x200.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The map produced by the team visually challenges that stereotype. While neighbouring countries like China stand raised on the 3D map, Germany, some 7,000 kilometres away, soars like a skyscraper as a result of thousands of young men from Mizoram being drafted into First World War labour forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using a collection of early volumes of Mizo leh Vai Chanchina, a regional newspaper, the project team scanned the documents into a software program to accumulate the data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-accent-background-color has-accent-color is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><blockquote><p><strong>\u201cIn essence, the software we used allowed us to take over 1.6 million words of text, not all in English, and isolate, and track the frequency of the specific terms which we had imputed into the program,\u201d says second-year history major Lucas Akai. \u201cWhat we lacked, however, was a way to show the data in a more engaging and visual level.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-accent-background-color has-accent-color is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/wilsondesignloop\/files\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-03-at-9.19.50-AM_0.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/wilsondesignloop\/files\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-03-at-9.19.50-AM_0.png 1000w, https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/wilsondesignloop\/files\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-03-at-9.19.50-AM_0-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/wilsondesignloop\/files\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-03-at-9.19.50-AM_0-768x418.png 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/wilsondesignloop\/files\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-03-at-9.19.50-AM_0-816x444.png 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>A snapshot of Birk&#8217;s digital file for the 3D printing software.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to KPU\u2019s Teaching and Learning Innovation Fund (TLIF), Dr. Jackson and Akai were able to engage the help of two 3D printing experts from the Wilson School of Design, fourth-year product design student Birk Zukowsky and divisional lab coordinator Melanie Bland. Birk\u2019s 3D sculpture reveals people in this region of India were highly interested in reading and writing about wider-world regions. Birk always viewed the world from a different perspective, which inspired him to study abroad in Birk, Denmark during his second year of the program to gain an alternative outlook on design, culture, and history. Birk has since graduated from the product design program and continues to work in the industry as a 3D Printing Research Assistant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/wilsondesignloop\/files\/2022\/08\/DEPD_Birk_Zukowsky-headshot-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/wilsondesignloop\/files\/2022\/08\/DEPD_Birk_Zukowsky-headshot-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/wilsondesignloop\/files\/2022\/08\/DEPD_Birk_Zukowsky-headshot-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/wilsondesignloop\/files\/2022\/08\/DEPD_Birk_Zukowsky-headshot-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/wilsondesignloop\/files\/2022\/08\/DEPD_Birk_Zukowsky-headshot-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/wilsondesignloop\/files\/2022\/08\/DEPD_Birk_Zukowsky-headshot-88x88.jpeg 88w, https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/wilsondesignloop\/files\/2022\/08\/DEPD_Birk_Zukowsky-headshot-816x816.jpeg 816w, https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/wilsondesignloop\/files\/2022\/08\/DEPD_Birk_Zukowsky-headshot.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Birk Zukowsky, 3D Printing Research Assistant.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B7kjMs-HvKh\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=180ababe-9785-426f-be8d-03fdbe554faa\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"527\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/wilsondesignloop\/files\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-29-at-3.25.40-PM-1024x527.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/wilsondesignloop\/files\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-29-at-3.25.40-PM-1024x527.png 1024w, https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/wilsondesignloop\/files\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-29-at-3.25.40-PM-300x154.png 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/wilsondesignloop\/files\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-29-at-3.25.40-PM-768x395.png 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/wilsondesignloop\/files\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-29-at-3.25.40-PM-1536x790.png 1536w, https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/wilsondesignloop\/files\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-29-at-3.25.40-PM-2048x1053.png 2048w, https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/wilsondesignloop\/files\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-29-at-3.25.40-PM-816x420.png 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When asked about the opportunity to collaborate with a non-design-focused partner, Birk explained, &#8220;The project was a nice change of pace from other design projects at school. I was able to partner with Dr. Kyle Jackson and Lucas Akai to form a relationship between the Wilson School of Design and the KPU History department, It was very empowering as a designer to be able to fill a need with my expertise in 3D printing to help bring an already fascinating project into the tangible world&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/wilsondesignloop\/files\/2022\/08\/IMG_6768-1_0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/wilsondesignloop\/files\/2022\/08\/IMG_6768-1_0.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/wilsondesignloop\/files\/2022\/08\/IMG_6768-1_0-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/wilsondesignloop\/files\/2022\/08\/IMG_6768-1_0-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/wilsondesignloop\/files\/2022\/08\/IMG_6768-1_0-816x544.jpeg 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Andhra Goundrey, Dean of the Wilson School of Design also offered her perspective on cross faculty collaboration by stating \u201cI fully support collaborations like this and I hope that we have the opportunity to do more in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-accent-background-color has-accent-color is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><blockquote><p><strong>It fosters enhanced engagement and mutual respect for other disciplines and further strengthens our polytechnic mandate. The Teaching &amp; Learning Innovation Fund (TLIF) has helped support a wide range of initiatives since its inception and we are most appreciative of the support for students and to showcase excellence in teaching practices.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-accent-background-color has-accent-color is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She also explains how design and design thinking can have a place in non-design focused projects by explaining \u201cDesign methodology can definitely be applied in other disciplines as the concept of design thinking incorporates an iterative process of testing out solutions to address problems\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe were able to quantify the newspaper\u2019s geographic coverage and come up with a shape of the world it had been presenting to its readership,\u201d adds Dr. Jackson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis project has shown us how the methods of digital history can allow students to go beyond the traditional 2D research essay and how starting conversations with people beyond the history department can help us change and enrich and be more creative with how we do history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe past is so rich and staggeringly diverse, and trying to incorporate art into it as a way to express our study of history has been wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">To read the original article, click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kpu.ca\/news\/2022\/02\/16\/art-collaboration-kpu-history-and-wilson-school-design-visually-display-global\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The university\u2019s history department teamed up with the Wilson School of Design for the first time to 3D print a world map showing every mention of each country in a regional newspaper over three decades in the early 1900s. 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