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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] ************************************************************ 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/ ************************************************************ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%