On 20 Jun 2008, at 3:13 am, Swanson, Gunnar wrote:
> People use the phrase "art and design." Can anyone tell me what that
> means or includes?
Hi Gunnar,
One practical list of subject specialisms is used by the UK's national
research assessment exercise for unit of assessment 63 Art and Design,
as follows:
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4. UOA 63 encompasses all disciplines within art
and design, in which methods of making,
representation, interrogation and interpretation
are integral to their productions. The sub-panel
will assess research from all areas of art and
design, which include (but are not confined to):
• fine arts
• applied arts and crafts
• design
• spatial, two- and three-dimensional art
and design
• photography, time-based and digital media
• critical, historical and cultural studies, where
these relate to or inform art, media, design,
production and practice
• contributions to policy, management and
entrepreneurship in the creative industries, arts
and design
• contributions to the construction of a
scholarly infrastructure for arts and design
through, for example, collections, archives,
curation and pedagogy
• curatorship
• appropriate pedagogic research in any of the
areas identified above.
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This is a fairly broad statement of what is offered in schools of art
and design, while seeking to distinguish the sector 'art and design'
from cognate areas such as other arts subjects, architecture,
engineering etc. which have separate units of assessment. Of course,
at the boundaries there is some overlap between UoAs and sometimes
advice is sought from other panels or specialist advisors.
The full UoA document is available at:
http://www.rae.ac.uk/pubs/2006/01/docs/o63.pdf
David
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