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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
THE ART OF RESEARCH IV
Making, Reflecting and Understanding
28-29 November 2012 at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and
Architecture Helsinki, Finland
While the power of artistic imagination is widely recognized, the
exploration of artistic and designerly methods of knowledge acquisition
underway in academia has only just become accepted by other professional
communities of researchers and practitioners inhabiting the academy.
Building on contemporary discourse regarding notions of practice-led
research, the Art of Research Conference 2012 aims to explore the relations
that can be constructed between making and critical reflection, and how
these enable artistic and designerly practices to be characterized as art
and design, or artistic or designerly research. Given how different fields
of creative practice may be constructing these relations in different ways
-- e.g, in methods, tools and skills -- the main aim of the event is to
explore how these fields might relate to and influence each other. This aim
is guided by following questions:
• How do different art and design practices utilize artistic and
designerly methods in practice-led research?
• How do artistic and designerly approaches to knowledge production enrich
or impoverish the professional art and design-related practices of those
who engage in them?
• How are artistic and designerly processes of critical reflection and
intervention be productively synthesized in practice-led research?
• How can different forms of art, craft and design contribute new
knowledge and understanding and how do they function in the distribution of
knowledge?
• How can critical reflection be interpreted and understood as embodied in
practice-led research?
Notwithstanding the above, it is appreciated that these questions might
stimulate other questions that potential contributors could see as
productively challenging or could lead to expanding these questions. Such
responses are most welcome.
The conference will not be restricted to conventional paper presentation,
and each conference session space will be designed to facilitate diverse
modes of exchange; for example, between oral presentation and works of art
and design. The aim of the event is to continue and update the discussions
concerning the relationship between art and design practices and knowledge,
in terms of both content and modes of knowledge production and exchange. We
invite abstracts (350 words max) by doctoral students, post-doctoral
researchers and academics addressing the following:
(1) Explorative art/design projects. These types of papers must be
submitted together with creative works and must contribute to understanding
of how the visual and the textual are unified in research. Each submission
must also include a separate and brief description (80 words max) of the
creative work and visual material, such as photographs or video (digital
formats only, totally 10M max.), and what is required displaying this
material.
(2) Methodological and theoretical questions related to the conference
theme.
All contributions will be double-blind peer reviewed. To facilitate the
review process, authors should make an effort to ensure that their identity
is not revealed by information contained in their submission. For example,
references to a contributor’s work in an abstract should not name the
contributor. Instead, for example, replace the author’s proper name by the
term “Author”, including any bibliographic data and footnotes.
Additionally, paper titles should be removed.
This is the fourth in the Art of Research event series, the first of which
took place in Helsinki 2005, and the first to be hosted by EMPIRICA, a
research group based in the Department of Design, Aalto University’s School
of Arts, Design and Architecture, working in co-operation with the
university’s Department of Film, Television and Scenography.
The paper and exhibition proposals should be submitted via the conference
system. For more information, please contact conference coordinator
Svetlana Usenyuk ([log in to unmask]). For the paper template and
other practical details, see the conference web site at
http://designresearch.aalto.fi/events/aor2012/. The conference fee is 150€
(100€ for students) and includes conference attendance, lunches and
refreshments.
KEYDATES:
10 April 2012 / First call for papers
10 June 2012 / Deadline for abstracts
25 June 2012 / Review notice of abstracts
1 September 2012 / Deadline for full papers
1 October 2012 / Review notice and referee feedback
1 September – 10 November 2012 / Registration and payment
30 October 2012 / Submission for final papers
13 November 2012 / Arrival of exhibits
28-29 November 2012 / Conference
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