by Marina Raytchinova(Bulgaria)
Scenographer, Chair of OISTAT Education Commission
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Before I start this presentation: I am a Scenographer and Professor of Scenography and I have served as Chair of OISTAT Education for the last 8 years. This presentation is based on my teaching experience at the National Academy of Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA and several design schools in Europe. Much of the information is gathered through the seminars of the Education commission in schools across the world as well as through conversations with colleagues – members of the Commission. I hope that this brief overview on current trends in design education will be useful for our Taiwanese colleagues.
Contemporary theatre is not a coherent formula of aesthetic and artistic practices but in fact a widespread landscape of many local contexts and discourses, a pluralistic coexistence of artistic platforms and forms of expression, extending from the dramaturgy based practice of the repertory theatres, to the innovative practices of the experimental theatre laboratories. A view on the current situation in design education would offer similarly diverse and colorful picture of forms placed between academic and vocational, local and international structures:
This diversity of forms of training, combined with the growing international mobility and intercultural collaboration fosters bigger responsiveness of education to the processes in today’s theatre and opens paths for innovation and experiment towards the future. Some of the prevailing trends in contemporary design education, that reflect up-to-date movements in design practice and theatre focus on:
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Marina Raytchinova (Bulgaria)
Marina has been an Associate Professor of Scenography at the National Academy of Art in Sofia since 1989. Since graduating from the National Academy of Art in Sofia in 1985, Marina has designed over 120 shows for companies, including the National Theatre in Sofia, TBA, theatres in Bulgaria, USA, Russia, and Macedonia. Since 1999 until present, she serves as resident designer at theatre Bulgarian Army, Sofia.
Marina has served as a faculty and resident designer at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA. She regularly teaches as visiting professor and guest lecturer in schools in Europe and USA. Marina was curator for the Bulgarian national exhibit at PQ’2003. Her set and costume design work has been featured at the Prague International Quadrennial of Scenography (PQ) in 1987, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007 and at World Stage Design Gallery Exhibit– Toronto 2005.
Between 2004 and 2012, Marina served as a Chair of the OISTAT Education Commission. She was actively involved in the organization of the International educational program in theatre design - Scenofest 2003 and Scenofest at PQ’07.
