Late Call for Presentations
Interrogations: Creative Interdisciplinarity in Art and
Design Research
AHRC Postgraduate Conference, De Montfort University &
Loughborough University,
1st and 2nd July 2009, Loughborough University, School of
Art and Design
The conference addresses various aspects of
interdisciplinary approaches in Art & Design research, as
well as practical and theoretical methods for interlinking
with other disciplines. The objective is to explore
interdisciplinarity as a new trend that brings together
different disciplines, forging new connections and
contributions to collective knowledge. Ultimately, the aim
is to promote and encourage interdisciplinarity as a way
to enhance creativity in research.
Contemporary culture is full of disciplinary overlaps;
concepts and linkages once abandoned re-emerge, meanings
are transformed and re-configured. Similarly, there is a
tendency towards interdisciplinary research in art and
design. New styles emerge from unique interlinking of
versatile approaches and techniques within and beyond art
and design practices. This trend facilitates bridging
disciplines, traditions and cultures and provides new
opportunities for researchers and practitioners like
Simone O'Callaghan promoting interdisciplinarity in her
work.
This conference aims to address the challenges and trends
of interdisciplinary research that contributes to art and
design. It encourages presentations of methodological and
theoretical insights, as well as practical projects based
on interdisciplinarity as a method of transferring ideas
and stimulating creativity across disciplines. It will
also discuss various aspects of working with unfamiliar
concepts and approaches from multi-dimensional fields.
We seek any inventive and creative interdisciplinary
insights with a broad understanding of the topic. Possible
topics may include but are not limited to:
Theoretical developments (what and why)
* Why interdisciplinarity?
* How does interdisciplinarity stimulate theorists
and artists?
* The history of disciplines and interdisciplinarity.
* How to redefine disciplines
and interdisciplinarity.
* The parallel between interdisciplinarity and other
intellectual spaces
* Can art and design be treated as a separate sphere
or is it now totally immersed in transitions,
linkages, crossovers?
Methods and Tools (how)
* How to cross from one discipline to another? How to
connect varying or similar paradigms? How to make a
whole from a plurality of disciplines? How to
translate the sources: modify or stay 'true' to them?
* Transfiguration, intersecting disciplines from art,
design and 'outside' them, creating a net of disciplines
from diverse areas – how to locate and examine the
crossovers and gaps?
Practice-based research through examples
* The relationship of theory to practice in
interdisciplinary research.
* How interdisciplinary research might be best
performed.
* How inderdisciplinarity works? – an insider’s view
on crossing disciplines.
* Individual projects with an interdisciplinary approach
* Collaborative projects across the disciplines -
advantages and possible problems.
* How to start an interdisciplinary project?--various
opportunities
We invite papers from current and graduated research
students as well as academics and practitioners in art and
design. We are also looking for artworks and design
solutions from digital visualisations to physical
installations, which could highlight significant features
of interdisciplinary research. Researchers and
professionals beyond art and design disciplines are also
invited to present research that contributes to art and
design in novel and interdisciplinary ways.
We invite to submit an abstract (300 words maximum) with
author/title in heading, and a short CV by 6th February
2009. Send materials or enquiries to Session Organisers:
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Financial support may be available subject to individual
circumstance, please contact Nikki Counley
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More details about the conference can be found at:
http://www.interrogations.org.uk/
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