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REGISTRATION INVITATION

RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE
CONFERENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
7 JULY 2000

Your registration is now invited for this one-day conference. The
central
theme is to examine the foundations of practice-based research in art
and
design. Models of research through practice may be found in the
professional development of the subject through exhibited and
award-winning
artefacts, in accrued historical evidence in collections, in academic
studies and their assessment in the RAE, etc. We are particularly
interested in how any of these models can be mapped onto research degree

regulations to provide paradigms of research through practice for
students
and their supervisors.

The conference will feature four keynote speakers and eighteen workshop
presentations. There will also be an exhibition of practice-based
research
and a performance. Lunch, endless tea and coffee, and an opportunity to
network, will be provided all day. Abstracts of workshop papers will be
available on the conference website shortly. Issues that will be
addressed
include:

        What is the relationship of research to knowledge and
interpretation?

        How does practice generate research outcomes?

        Is all studio practice a form of research?

        What is the function of a text/thesis in a practice-based
submission?

        Does conventional academic writing exclude a "poetics" of
enquiry?

        What is the role of serendipity in a "systematic" enquiry?

        How might responses to the above questions be compared to
whether
        Picasso deserves a PhD?

For further information please visit the conference website:

        http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes/conex/res2prac/

Early registration is recommended. If you have any questions please
contact
the conference organiser:

Dr Michael Biggs
Faculty Research Tutor
University of Hertfordshire
College Lane
Hatfield, Herts., AL10 9AB

Tel     01707 285341
Fax     01707 285350
e-mail  [log in to unmask]



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Dr Michael A R Biggs
Faculty Research Tutor
Faculty of Art and Design
University of Hertfordshire
College Lane,
Hatfield, Herts. AL10 9AB
United Kingdom

Telephone UK+ (0)1707 285341
Fax UK+ (0)1707 285350
E-mail [log in to unmask]
Internet http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes/desres/mabiggs

For information about research degrees go to
http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes/resdegs/

For information about the "Research into Practice" conference go to
http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes/conex/res2prac/
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