Last week I was invited to do a Second Life workshop with students at Merz Academy in Stuttgart (Click on the image to watch a video of “Merz Academy’s Next Top Model”, the fashion show we did). The students built the Stage, scripted the light show, designed catwalks and of course cloths.
Merz Academy is, by the way, a really nice school and the students were very good. We were a bit late with everything and had to improvise for the presentation on Friday, but that’s of course the kind of situation when one can really see how people work.
Besides skill theory seems to be an integral and important part of the education at Merz Academy. I also noticed that there is room for political discourse, which I think is very important in design and art studies. All in all I had a great time in Stuttgart (it was actually my first time the city).