Description

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It embeds collaborations with colleagues and collections at key Asia Pacific Universities, including Tec de Monterrey, the University of Melbourne and HKU. One of the most successful means to communicate and exchange cultural knowledge and practices across different countries, languages and academic disciplines is through art. Art gallery and museum objects speak a common visual language that facilitates Object Based Learning (OBL) in multicultural classrooms. When curated across international heritage collections, cultural artifacts can allow students to gain insights into cross-cultural understandings of critical issues that can advance UNESCO’s SDGs-. This project will utilize a curated set of digitized cultural and artistic resources from the participating universities as the context for an Intercultural Heritage Global Classroom (IHGC). Through it, international students and their peers can learn to critically engage today’s challenges in unique, transcultural and thought-provoking ways.