UIC Learning Resource Centre (LRC) Lobby

9am-10pm, 26 Oct- 11 Nov 2022

Opening Remark at 1:00pm, 26 Oct 2022 Wednesday (light refreshment)

Learning Resource Centre (LRC)

The Learning Resource Centre's vision is to achieve excellence in supporting learning, teaching and research. (UIC Learning Resource Centre, 2022)

Learning Resource Centre (LRC, 2022) “is to engage with the college community in their pursuit of knowledge, thereby advancing the role of UIC as a unique higher education institution in Mainland China”. Or the place, you start with your writing assignment, developing ideas, or starting research, or uplifting philosophical thoughts etc… that your academic research life begins. Many of the best ideas, artistic leaps, inventions and breakthroughs have been facilitated/ supported/ inspired by the contents of books or the huge volume of book collections.

Research as Art (Uhrmacher & Green, 1991)

Research as Art is one of reading week events to provide initiatives and a platform for the UICers to start and establish their reading Arts & Culture habit. Especially this activity will also help the UIC/SCC/DCCD (MAD & CCM) students to start their research on Final Year Project (FYP) that establishes their extensive readings from individual, social, cultural, to creative work of inquiry. This also introduces a new practice of Art-based Research  (Candy, 2006 & Borgdorff, 2010) claimed as art making via research or as a primary mode of enquiry.

The 100-Book selections from LRC formulate the crucial parts that will be shortlisted by Dr. Iceman (CCM) and andyDada (MAD) to address the research aspects in relating to arts education, art history, creativity and innovation, research methodology, and philosophy etc… Of course, these 100-book selections will furthermore challenge the nature of artistic enquiry, applied arts research, and creative outcomes.

As consequences, this event will also facilitate the UIC-public an Introduction- Understanding- Appreciation about painting, photography, architecture, new media, art & design etc. Thus, we have a better liberal-arts environment that interplays of our objective and subjective artistic experiences.