Second Call for Papers: Deadline for Abstracts is 6th February 2006

reflections on creativity:
exploring the role of theory in creative practices

Issues
Papers and projects are solicited from across the disciplines of 
architecture, fine art, design, new and timebased media, which discuss 
the role of theory in creative practice. Suggested areas of interest 
revolve around the intersection of theory, practice and research, and 
include:

•	Theory as practice; practice as theory.
•	The resistance of practice to theory; the colonisation of practice by 
theory.
•	The different relationships of theory to creative practice.
•	The role of historical consciousness in creativity.
•	The effect of RAE on the forms of creative practice in academe.
•	The relations of theory and practice to research.
•	Practice-based research.
•	Theory as a platform for practice-based research.
•	The nature of the split between theory and practice.
•	Differences between research, theory, and practice in the creative 
arts, the social sciences, and the natural sciences.
•	Theory often takes the form of a critique of practice using the 
interpretive approaches of the liberal arts & sciences: psychoanalytic 
theory, structuralism, philosophy, gender studies, socio-economics, and 
the like.  Are there other possible forms of theoretical interest in 
practice?

Symposium
This two day symposium will be comprised of 4 paper sessions with two 
or three 20 minute paper presentations each, including  an invited 
keynote speaker.  Each paper session will be followed by a workshop, 
led by a workshop facilitator, including the speakers, which will focus 
on issues raised in the papers.

Dissemination
We intend to publish edited transcripts of the workshop sessions in 
addition to the papers. The submission of final papers for publication 
should be no more than 4000 words.

Venue
The symposium will be held on the 21st and 22nd of April 2006, at the 
DCA (Dundee Contemporary Art) and is sponsored by the University of 
Dundee and the Duncan of Jordanstone Faculty of Art and Design.  The 
DCA is one of Scotland’s premier galleries and institutions of 
contemporary art and design.

Call
We are seeking papers from practitioners and theorists in Scotland, the 
UK, and abroad; and papers from staff and post-graduate students at the 
University of Dundee.  We are also seeking workshop facilitators and 
participants from the University of Dundee.  This will be an 
international conference with contributions from many UK HEI’s.

Dates
Mon 6 Feb  2006: 		Submission of 300 word abstract + 100 word biography
Wed 22 Feb 2006:	 	Notification of acceptance of abstracts
Fri/Sat 21/22 Apr 2006:		Symposium
Fri/Sat 21/22 Apr 2006:		Submission of 4000 word papers for publication 
at Symposium

Submit abstracts to
Hamid van Koten  [log in to unmask]  or Lorens  Holm  
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For further Information please contact Sandra McNeil: 
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