An invitation to Postgraduate Students in Art & Design Research

Monday January 21st, 2008 Fletcher Building (Lowrise) Room 1.65 (DMU) 10am – 3 pm

Interrogations presents a Postgraduate Workshop organised by De Montfort University Faculty of Art and Design and Loughborough University School of Art and Design (supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council)

This is the first event of the 2 year Postgraduate Training project which follows on from the 'In Theory' project last year organised by LUSAD and De Montfort.

Its title this time is 'Creative Interdisciplinarity in Art and Design Research'. We have funding for a number of workshops and ending in a 2 day conference in June 2009 (at Loughborough).

In this first session - to be held at De Montfort - we will introduce general issues that students would all potentially find useful in terms of concepts, methods, approaches and research strategies.

The aim is to interest students in interdisciplinary research - to see interdisciplinarity as a way to enhance and encourage creativity. In following sessions we will ask speakers from different disciplines other than A&D, so this first one introduces the idea of interdisciplinarity and what it could be.

Light refreshments will be available but you may want to bring your own lunch

Issues to be discussed might include:

  • Why interdisciplinarity?
  • In what ways is interdisciplinarity useful and stimulating for practitioners and other research students?
  • The relationship of theory to practice in interdisciplinary research. Opportunities and pitfalls.
  • How to locate and digest suitable interdisciplinary theories and concepts without being overwhelmed, or just resorting to "pick and mix strategy".
  • "Translating" from one discipline to another. Should you be "true" to your source or is it better to modify the material you take from other disciplines?
  • The problem of illustrating (in your practice) ideas from other disciplines, and how to avoid this.
  • Isn’t everything interdisciplinary?

         Gen Doy (DMU) and Jane Tormey (Loughborough)

 

For further information please contact
Nikki Counley N.Counley@lboro.ac.uk
Hema Naran hnaran@dmu.ac.uk