ANJA VENTERMedia Studies

UCT Centre in ICT4D

THE EVER ELUSIVE

CREATIVE PARTICIPATION & MOBILE ECOLOGIES

AMONG ASPIRING VISUAL DESIGNERS IN TWO BRIDGING COURSE SETTINGS IN CAPE TOWN

WHY THE PARTICIPATIO

N GAP?

26% of high schools in the greater Cape Town have art education up to a matric level.

2489 of the 24 793 public ordinary schools have computer laboratories.

MOBILE-CENTRIC SOCIETY

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

1. What practical and technical skills are considered necessary among institutional gatekeepers’ for students’ acceptance into these design courses

2. What is the media ecology among students, and specifically the ecology supporting visual media production?

3. Given these requirements and ecologies, what functionality should a mobile visual design app provide?

…how does the understanding of ecologies feed into theories of cultural capital?

LESSONS LEARNED