Cultural exchanges
Cultural Exchange refers to interactions that develop learning spaces where we explore other world views, traditions, heritage, arts, language, and other aspects of culture between different groups of people. These exchanges can be, but not restricted to field trips, intercultural exchanges, and artistic productions; occurring through various modes of digital platforms where the use of technological tools supports the exchange.
Field Trips are virtual excursions that take place in the digital realm such as meeting platforms, webpages, digital maps, livestream videos and photographs. With these technological tools, we can visit a venue without travelling. Virtual Field Trips do not replace in person experience, rather it is a virtual approach where we can share information, photos, traditions around a specific place.
Intercultural Exchanges are virtual exchanges that are entirely focused on sharing immaterial traditions, cultures, and languages.
Finally, the Artistic Production exchange refers to artistical products such as theatre plays, concerts, art exhibitions, cinema, and virtual shows, created in collaboration with peers and global partners. These Artistic productions have place in the virtual realm, taking virtual meeting platforms, the metaverse or the digital space as a performing platform.
Culture portfolio
It was a collaborative Zoom theatre production between Paris Nanterre University; University of Exeter; and Berkeley, University of California; where students virtually performed one of Molière's most famous plays on a live streaming show the 26th March, 2021. Learn more.
Ongoing
Venice International University (VIU) is a consortium of 20 universities from all over the world with an autonomous campus on the island of San Servolo, Venice, Italy. The University of Exeter is part of this consortium, focused in the developing of joint academic, research and capacity-building programs, across disciplines, continents, languages and cultures. It is a place where students, researchers and professors come together to exchange knowledge and ideas while exploring interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives in their studies and research.
Currently, students from the University of Exeter can be eligible to apply to the Global Virtual Exchange over a course of four weeks where they can strengthen intercultural communication through discussion on topical themes relevant to our lives in the present day.
Through a series of projects between United Arab Emirates, UK, and beyond, Green Futures have developed three art projects focused on the Climate Emergency:
