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Creative Approaches to Public Space – CAPS – is a new graduate school developed by Rennes 2 University, in partnership with the Ecole européenne d’art de Bretagne - EESAB - European Academy of Art in Brittany and the Ecole nationale supérieure d’architecture de Bretagne - ENSAB - Brittany National College of Architecture and the Centre national de la recherche scientifique - CNRS - National centre for scientific research. CAPS is supported by the French National Research Agency, the Brittany Regional Council, Rennes Metropole and Ville de Rennes.
CAPS focuses on innovative, creative ways of experimenting in academic research, teaching and action, all within public space. Our aim is to combine creative imagination, critical thinking, and interdisciplinary collaboration. With several local and international partnerships, CAPS seeks to create new encounters with publics from within the university environment, and outside of it. Our goal is to play an active role in society, with creativity at the centre of our actions.
CAPS thinks about public space with practice-based research in mind, and also as a way of working with civil society to create things (objects, art works, performances), whilst engaging with different publics and experts. CAPS thrives on interdisciplinarity, and involves collaboration between several university departments – such as Geography and Urban Planning, Arts, Information Communication, Sociology and Languages – as well as close cooperation with Rennes’ top art and architecture institutions.
The Graduate School format is new to France, and will provide Masters and Doctorate level training for students coming from all pathways, sharing a common interest in public space.
We are currently busy creating an open-style MA programme, due to open in September 2022, with the unique possibility of sharing modules with international partners: making it collaborative, international and interdisciplinary.
EUR CAPS has formed a first group of
partners
with varied and complementary fields of action :
- University of Barcelona
Barcelona / MA : Production & Artistic Researche [Espagne]
- Queen's University
Belfast / MA : Arts Management [Royaume-Uni]
- University College Cork
Cork / MA : Arts Management & Creative Producing [Irlande]
- IADT DUBLIN
Dublin / Institute of art design and technology [Irlande]
- Goldsmiths University of London
London / MA : Photography & Urban Cultures [Royaume-Uni]
- Leuphana University
Lüneburg [Allemagne]
- KHiO Oslo National Academy of the Arts
Oslo / MFA : Art & Public Space [Norvège]
- University of Arts
Poznan [Pologne]
- Bauhaus University
Weimar / MFA : Public Art & New Artistic Strategies [Allemagne]
- Concordia University
Montréal / Faculty of Fine Arts and Milieux [Canada]
- Texas State University
San Marcos / TX [USA]
- Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne [Australie]
At the start of the 2020 academic year, CAPS set up the first round of trial interdisciplinary modules at Rennes 2 University, EESAB & ENSAB, and opened a call for CAPS-funded doctorate applications.
From March 2021, CAPS will occupy a dedicated public space provided by the city of Rennes. The aim is to transform it into a place to develop creative and intellectual experimentation. Located off campus in the heart of the city, this space will help to connect academic research and creativity with society, and facilitate access to a variety of publics.
April 2021 - the International Board Meeting will take place, officially launching the GS project over a 2-day online event with our international and local partners.
September 2021 - the first CAPS-funded doctorates will begin.
September 2022 - launch of the open-MA programme.
Director of CAPS
M. creativepublicspace[at]univ-rennes[dot]fr
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Head of training for CAPS
M. creativepublicspace[at]univ-rennes[dot]fr
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Heads of research for CAPS
M. creativepublicspace[at]univ-rennes[dot]fr
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Heads of research for CAPS
M. creativepublicspace[at]univ-rennes[dot]fr
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EESAB Head of research and international affairs
M. isabelle.kaiser[at]eesab[dot]fr
T. 02 22 51 44 68
ENSAB Head of resarch
M. laetitia.bouvier[@]rennes.archi[dot]fr
T. 02 22 51 44 68
Operational coordinator
M. marlene.meslay[at]univ-rennes2[dot]fr
T. 02 22 51 44 68
Administrative and financial manager
M. marie.grosset[at]univ-rennes2[dot]fr
T. 02 99 14 14 61
Head of communication and local partner relations
M. roland.delicado[at]univ-rennes2[dot]fr
T. 02 22 51 44 69
Head of International Relations
M. taylor.still[at]univ-rennes2[dot]fr
T. 02 22 51 44 56