The Learning Development Programme 2010 provides the opportunity for third year students from the Fine Art Department of the National College of Art & Design (NCAD), Institute of Art, Design & Technology – Dun Laoghaire and New York University Tisch School of the Arts to engage in a supported experience of collaborative arts practice.

Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts, manages the Learning Development Programme. Create’s services are designed to provide advice and support to artist and arts organisations working collaboratively with communities of place and/or interest.

The students will be from a broad range of arts based disciplines and will engage with a community group using their creative tools and will apply their contemporary arts practice in-order to collaborate with the group. The students will lead and encourage participation towards a creative outcome, product or action. This process and end-product will be decided upon by the students in collaboration with the group.