As promised, this post will be dedicated to the end of my Core Course Week.
After leaving Malmo Wednesday morning, my class and I drove an hour back to Denmark for lunch and a scheduled tour at ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst which is in Ishøj, a town near Copenhagen. We met with a project worker at Arken Education, and she gave us context to the pieces we were seeing as we , and took us on a guided tour at the special exhibit “Young Danish Art – Forecasting the Future”. We walked through collections that were aimed at redefining our understanding and approaches to creating and curating art. After our guided tour of some of the in this collection, we were allowed to explore the rest of the museum which had a Picasso exhibit housing about 10 of his pieces.
(The middle picture in the second row is me and a Picasso!)
On Thursday, my class and I headed to a virtual reality workspace that was located in the meatpacking district called KHORA VR. At KHORA, we tested out numerous simulations ranging from educational campaigns of fireworks to corporate storytelling uses – such as on boarding and workplace training. We also got the opportunity in groups to brainstorm campaign ideas of our own and explain to the rest of the class how it would look like and who our target audiences would be respectively.
After our lunch break, we regrouped at DIS to speak with Jonas Harild a digital editor and analyst who oversees campaigns and fundraising from WWF DK an international environmental organisation (this being the branch in Denmark). He shed light on campaign styles that the organisation deemed effective as well as the necessity and value in knowing your audience. This sit down was insightful and also reaffirmed the use of Facebook as a multimedia and multifaceted platform especially in the context of Denmark and organisations’ quest for mass mobilisation.
Lastly, on Friday we visited DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation), Denmark’s oldest and largest electronic media enterprise. Founded almost 100 years ago, DR is a founding member of the European Broadcasting Union, and functions as a public funded radio, television, and online platform. Having already visited DR as a field study for my Podcast production course, I was interested in seeing what new perspective I could gain about the strategy and success of a large scale public service sector. I learned that every Danish citizen automatically pays for DR with their taxes, thus every Danish citizen has access to it. There is also an important focus on youth programming so as to incorporate DR into the lives of their viewers and establish their credibility.
After this, my core course wrapped up the week making Danish pastry called flødeboller (a chocolate covered marshmallow/egg whites/ cream treat) at Social Foodies! It was a very cute and fun experience, with light pop music playing as we prepared our treats to our liking. ( I used coconut and a lot of it !!!)
Overall, I valued my CCW experience as I got to explore more of Danish and Scandinavian culture and share real connections and memories with my classmates & professors. There was so much to take in but at least once a day, I had an ‘ah-ha’ moment where I could see how the content I was surrounded by could continue shape the world as we know it.
From the Bronx to the World 