The Experiential Knowledge Conference 2007:

NEW KNOWLEDGE IN THE CREATIVE DISCIPLINES

Deadline for abstracts: 6th January 2007
Conference date: Friday 29 June 2007

Host Institution: University of Hertfordshire,
Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK
Collaborating Institution: London Metropolitan
University, London, UK
Further Support: Journal of Visual Arts Practice,
NAFAE, Design Research Society, Middlesex
University/DART: AHRC-funded collaborative doctoral
training.

Conference team: 
Dr Kristina Niedderer, University of Hertfordshire
Rob Godman, University of Hertfordshire
Chris Smith, London Metropolitan University
Linden Reilly, London Metropolitan University

Contact: Dr Kristina Niedderer [log in to unmask] 
Conference home page: 
http://www.art-design.herts.ac.uk/ekc/ekc1.html


THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS

The first International Conference on Experiential
Knowledge will be held on 29th of June 2007 at the
University of Hertfordshire and address the theme of
“New Knowledge in the Creative Disciplines”.

THE CONFERENCE

EKC 2007 will explore the theme of New Knowledge in
the Creative Disciplines to examine what is understood
and accepted as new knowledge in research and in
creative practice, and what their role and
relationship might be. 

EKC 2007 will be the first in a series of biennial
conferences by the University of Hertfordshire
concerned with the issues and understanding of
knowledge in research and practice in the creative
disciplines. The experiential knowledge conferences
will serve to address specific themes, to bring
together researchers and practitioners from different
disciplines to engender challenging multi-vocal
debates around these themes, and to facilitate
exchange and cross-fertilisation between the creative
disciplines and other practice-led disciplines such as
education, health, and knowledge management. 

EKC 2007 will take the format of a one-day
single-track event - interspersed with some breakout
sessions and rounded off by a reception in the Art &
Design Gallery of the University and a delicious
conference dinner - in order to facilitate
constructive and productive discussions. The
aspiration is to provide a high-profile conference
that can push the debate forward breaking new ground.
The organizers aim to achieve this by combining a
number of keynote papers by eminent researchers in the
field with a call for position papers, which should
propose challenging new views on the subject. 

Papers selected for the conference proceedings will be
published in a Special Issue of the Journal for Visual
Arts Practice in Autumn 2007, which is available in
both paper and electronic format.

THEME & INVITATION FOR PAPERS

The theme of the Experiential Knowledge Conference
2007 is New Knowledge in the Creative Disciplines.
However, the theme can be interpreted differently with
regard to research and to practice. Firstly, the
concern for 'new knowledge' arises because research is
defined in terms of the original contribution to
knowledge or understanding. Secondly, through the
creation of new artefacts, products, services etc,
creative practice can be understood to create new
realities and experiences, and thus new knowledge. 

Through the contribution to knowledge, research aims
to advance its field.  However, practice also is
interested in an advance of its respective field and
claims to achieve this advance through its own
processes and outcomes. In the creative disciplines,
the advance of the field is for example associated
with the creation of new artefacts, such as paintings,
design products, performances, compositions, films
etc. This has raised questions about the format of the
contribution of knowledge in research and practice,
about its format, and about how new knowledge is
created.

In order to address these issues, we wish to bring
together people from different fields and disciplines
to discuss these problems as well as different
approaches to their solution. We invite contributions
from the creative disciplines (art & design, music,
film & media etc), philosophy, education and knowledge
management that are concerned with the nature, role,
and management of knowledge within research; and with
the role and use of creative practice (both as process
and outcome) as a medium by which to include
experiential knowledge within research. 

Questions of interest are, for example:

- What constitutes (new) knowledge (or understanding)
in the creative disciplines?
- What constitutes (new) knowledge (or understanding)
in research in the creative disciplines?
- Are the two the same?

- What is the difference between knowledge and
understanding?
- In which forms does knowledge (or understanding)
appear?
- Where is knowledge situated or contained? (e.g. in
the artwork or in the explanation?)
- How is new knowledge (or understanding) communicated
in research and in practice?
- For whom is new knowledge or understanding relevant?

- (How) can knowledge management serve to manage, or
negotiate between, different kinds of knowledge?
- How can education deal with the communication of
knowledge if part of the knowledge is experiential?
- How does education promote the production and/or
acquisition of new knowledge or understanding?


SUBMISSIONS

For EKC 2007, we invite position papers, which offer
challenging new views on the subject. Position papers
will be selected subject to a double blind review
process by an international review team. In the first
instance we ask for the submission of abstracts.
Authors of selected abstracts will be asked to submit
full papers. Of those papers invited for the
conference, a further selection will be made for
publication in the Journal of Visual Arts Practice,
Autumn 2007. 

We invite the submission of abstracts of 700-800 words
for position papers by 6th January 2007. 

Authors of selected abstracts will subsequently be
invited to submit full papers (3000-5000w) in April
2007.

For further information, please visit the Conference
Website: 
 http://www.art-design.herts.ac.uk/ekc/ekc1.html


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