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13.12.2017

Future Unknown:

Global Education Summit

Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing China

“FUTURE UNKNOWN Global Education Plan is an experimental exploration for future education by a joint force of global institutions. Starting with a discussion of some of the age-leading events, it aims at expanding the boundary of traditional education, extending the topics of future education and redesigning the scenes of future education.

As an explorer in art and design education, the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) initiates FUTURE UNKNOWN for the future - cross-disciplinary, cross-time-space and cross-cultural, it will integrate global academic intelligence, re-examine art and design in the contemporary context, gather global institutions to articulate together, aggregate a new platform for future education development and collaboration, in an effort to jointly explore innovative solutions.

The unknown, will be known. The future, is here.”

Description (Future Unknown: Global Education Summit)

Director David Gersten was recently honored to participated in ‘Future Unknown: Global Education Summit’ held at CAFA (Central Academy of Fine Arts), Beijing, China. Future Unknown gathered Artists, Designers, Technologist, Educators and Futurists for a two-day exchange on the future of education. David’s address entitled: “Constellations: Hinges Mirrors Eclipses” shared, with a global audience, the mission and vision of Arts Letters & Numbers as a social poetic project. Addressing both future challenges and promises, he spoke of the critical role of diverse cultures and ways of knowing in creating transformation that aspires to our best hopes and aspirations. He called for new models of asking the extraordinary complex questions of our time and outlined a framework of education as a living system with the capacity of developing new pathways of interaction and forms of knowledge.

Future Unknown was the first in a year-long collaboration between CAFA and Arts Letters & Numbers.