The Research Catalogue (RC) is a non-commercial, collaboration and publishing platform for artistic research provided by the
Society for Artistic Research. The RC is free to use for artists and
researchers. It
serves also as a backbone for teaching purposes, student assessment, peer review workflows and research funding administration. It strives to be
an open space for experimentation and exchange.
recent activities
Professional Doctorate Arts + Creative
(2025)
PD Arts + Creative
Professional Doctorate in Arts + Creative is an educational pilot program in The Netherlands for an advanced degree in universities of applied sciences. The PD program at an university of applied sciences is developed to train an investigative professional. This portal is a platform for publishing artistic research generated by the PD candidates. Within the Professional Doctorate program, this portal will also be used as an internal tool for documentation.
The EcoSomatics Conversation Series: environmental awareness through embodiment
(2025)
Polly Hudson
The EcoSomatics Conversations Series invites sharing of engagement, practices and thinking around environmental awareness through embodiment activities, dance and art. It posits a definition of EcoSomatics as of the body-mind-ecology and takes the form of open public dialogues between two (or more) people: independent artists, practitioners, and academics.
The project was conceived by Dr Polly Hudson, (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham City University), and the conversations are co-convened with Dr Karen Wood, (Birmingham Dance Network and C-DaRE).
The conversations took place virtually with a large international audience, and the podcasts are audio recordings of the live events. It is supported by funding from ADM Faculty Research Investment Scheme, Birmingham City University.
Image by Ming de Nasty.
PD Arts + Creative at PD Day 2025
(2025)
PD Arts + Creative
The first edition of the Professional Doctorate (PD) Day took place on Tuesday 18 November at the Social Impact Factory in Utrecht. This event brought together PD candidates and their networks from all seven domains of the Professional Doctorate pilot to exchange ideas, explore crossovers, and strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration.
The theme of this first PD Day, 'šš¦šŖš®š¢šØšŖšÆšŖšÆšØ šš³š£š¢šÆ šš¶šµš¶š³š¦š“ - ššÆšµš¦š³š·š¦šÆšŖšÆšØ šµš©š³š°š¶šØš© šš³š¢š¤šµšŖš¤š¦-š£š¢š“š¦š„ šš¦š“š¦š¢š³š¤š© š§š°š³ ššŖš·š¦š¢š£šš¦ ššŖšµšŖš¦š“,' focused on the future of urban life. This theme is grounded in the United Nations šš¶š“šµš¢šŖšÆš¢š£šš¦ šš¦š·š¦šš°š±š®š¦šÆšµ šš°š¢š 11: šš¶š“šµš¢šŖšÆš¢š£šš¦ ššŖšµšŖš¦š“ š¢šÆš„ šš°š®š®š¶šÆšŖšµšŖš¦š“ and during the PD day, the theme is structured around five subthemes. Within these subthemes, we reflected on how we can shape cities that are inclusive, safe, resilient, and ecologically sustainable.
recent publications
Editorial: The possibility of having time to have a world
(2025)
PĆR-A-GEM
We are pleased to announce the release of HUB - Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society, Issue #5 Duration? Dur(action)!. Guided by the collective of guest editors PĆR-A-GEM, this edition offers in-depth explorations of the intersections between media, temporality, and embodied artistic research.
DESERT DWELLING
(2025)
Christine Hansen
Desert Dwelling is a research project conducted by Associate professor Christine Hansen and Independent Artist Line Anda Dalmar. The desert is used as a site and framework to reflect on landscape, environment and time. In addition, Desert Dwelling endeavor to explore the act of observation and documentation. The project uses common documentation/observation methods such as photography, video and sound. In addition, we employ more obsolete and time-consuming observation means such as drawing, casting and watercolor painting. This is to stress that different observation methods render the world differently, and provide noninterchangeable information about the world. Much of the visual material is from a field study in deserts in California in spring 2018. The study took place mainly in Death Valley and Joshua Tree and had a processual method. We selected a place in the desert and stayed there until we found something interesting to work with. Every day, we made experiences that we built on the next day. The working method focused on the fluid relationship between process, work and documentation.
In a Place like this
(2025)
Johan Sandborg, Duncan Higgins
In A place Like This sets out to investigate and expand the issues and critical discourses within Sandborg and Higgins' current collaborative research practice. The central focus for the research is concerned with how art, in this instance photographic and painted image making and text, can be used as an agent or catalyst of understanding and critical reflection.
The research methodology is constructed through photography, painting, drawing and text. This utilises the form of an artist publication as a point of critically engaged dissemination: a place for the tension between conflicting ideas and investigation to be explored through discussion.
The research question is focused on how the production of the image and the act of making images can communicate or describe moments of erasure or remembering in terms of historical and personal narratives with direct reference to moments of violence and place.
This is seen not in terms of a nostalgic remembrance of the past; instead as one that is rife with complicated layers and dynamics where recognition is denied the ability to locate a physical representation. Embedded in this is an exploration of particular questions concerning the ethics of representation: the depiction of ourselves and other? In this sense it brings into question an examination of the act of remembering as a thing in itself, through the production of the image and text, contexts of knowledge and cultural discourses explored through the form of an artists publication.