" Holography needs more Education" "A declaration based on statistic and market analyse done by Ian Lancaster, General Secretary of International Hologram Manufacturer Association, www.IHMA.org. To produce good hologram, we need to have good design, which means that we need good training, good understanding of the technique and aesthetic. If we look at the assembly here, we find only 4 people underneath of 30 years old. So where is the new generation? Where are the training courses? According to me, there is not enough people in Holography to prepare the next generation, and if we do not do anything, we stagnate, and stagnation means regression. There is no data of people able to work with holography, we need to work on data, and find out where are the people who can do something, and what can they do?"
3D designers?
In Germany , we made the same experience than Ian Lancaster . To get customers we need to fascinate the marketing people, but the Job is done by the designers. So we need to train the designers to think 3 and even 4D. Although these people are already 3-D specialists working with 3D programs, they have trouble to understand the perspective of the holographic window. Without experiencing the holograms playing with the image this understanding is very difficult. This is why training holography is essential for its own survival.
Michel Grosmann, from the University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg , France , explained that the difficulty of learning something, and learning something new, still not accepted, makes the teaching even more difficult. This is why he is proposing to teach holography of course at university level in art and engineering, but first of all at schools level. Clearly there is a need. Some countries opened these past years some new schools with interesting programs for example in Taiwan where some test on children have been conducted to evaluate the potential use the holographic media in communication. In England some new forms of educational programs have been supported by one University. In Germany, like in the United States a lot of engineering programs developed the knowledge of the technical aspect missing the perceptive and visual aspect of the medium. No where is a real pedagogic concept? Still in the US some private initiatives support the teaching of holographic art and display. But the Shearwater Foundation which has been for years the main supporters in this area is also closed. Shall we expect some change? Yes, because holography is now a digital process, where the design is not done in lab but at the computer desk, and yes because the new 3D industry is calling for new specialists able to play with texture, light and animation in the multiples perspectives required. Now the question is. How long it will take?
New on the Map
Holography at KunShan Universtiy Tainan in Tawan, addressed different levels of courses and experiment. They goal is to solve difficulty of 3-D communication design, so helping designers and children to understand the holographic visual. In this way for children they create a story of a horse creating the TIPI's adventure to introduce the image with an interesting narrative which supposes to enhance the observation of the properties of the medium. They also did several exhibitions with different kinds of holograms. For elementary schools they work out with Geometry cubes and 3-D blocs to study children perception. The holographic material is used to analyse the capacity of developing perception of visual information including text in space
Holography art and Science Fall, 2006 Program announced on the site of the Butler Museum : Art, and Science Irvine Valley College , California . by James D. Trolinger and Vladimir Markov, MetroLaser, Incorporated Irvine, CA, USA Holography art and Science JD Trolinger and V Markov A program proposed at the Ivine Valley college in California which was discussed with Yuri Denisyuk before his death. The main idea of the program is to enjoy hologram without having to enter into mathematical information. Explanation are done graphically and immediately applied with individual projects and provocative questions. A part of the instruction is dedicated to some history and science of holography which is explained with analogies. For example when talking about moiré, refer to water. The course also introduces appreciation of the art of holography, considering line form and colours but also the dynamics and concealment, the surprise of the medium. See October issue of Holography and Speckle
Brief history of recent educational programs in holographic imaging by Odile Meulien Öhlmann
Center for Korea Holography Art and Science (CKHAS) South Korea conducted by Prof. at school of Visual Arts J-Y. Lee. A course mainly dedicated to multimedia students at University level - around 14 students a year. A lot of equipment which are also used to produced hologram for example of the popular actors in South Korea.
EU Project Facination of Light, Brüssel: Optic experience
London School of Art a private initiative of Spatial Imaging is proposing a 5day course of the different techniques with Rob Munday and Patrick Boyd www.School@holograms.co.ukPulse
Teaching Holography as a problem based Learning
Pearl Johns and James Gate presented a very interesting program of a Problem base learning to fill a gap in education , for people from 18 to 40 having all range of educational background. The keay element is that these people 95% male did not find their interest, their place or the right thing to do in their life. The Solution is to Apply Holography, Introduce the holographic Model. At first it is necessary to discuss with them what they need to accomplish their project, and how they can accomplish their project in a specific time frame and be able to present it to other students.
This first step is also a way of actualising what they already know, to give them confidence. They need to be aware that they also need to learn new things to accomplish the project, and so they make a list of what is still to be done and how to present it to other students. This course develops several kinds of abilities, from organisation, to inter-relation between learning and outside environment, other source of information. It helps them in building Confidence, making request and decision on what is important to get in which order, and rising self esteem by presenting to others. And of course they learn to do holography and get a practical experience in Optics. Such training creates some specific challenges for the organisers. It needs a lot of space, and time as well as a lot of knowledge and preparation for the instructors so that they can in all case have proper answers. The project has been successful and will be re-conducted by the University of Southampton in England. Light Express Roadshow
