Design Phenomenographies for Industrial Wastelands
(2025)
author(s): monica tusinean
published in: VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
The long-neglected industrial wastelands of Romania present themselves as heterotopias in need of help. Post-Communist industrial ruins form a link to a multi-layered and difficult past, and their systemic erasure has contributed to a collective amnesia that perpetuates historical trauma and denies the local population access to the landscapes, natural and artificial, that tie them to a shared past and a collective cultural identity.
This contribution aims to illustrate one methodology of bridging the gap between preservation through museumification and invasive architectural intervention. In this context, artistic and design-driven research practices can enable the emergence of ephemeral creative spaces that foster engagement with industrial heritage and reach beyond commodification and capitalist exploitation.
Design plass i "Design Thinking"
(2020)
author(s): Bente Irminger
published in: Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
De siste årene har tilbudet av kurs i «Design Thinking» økt markant. Kursene kan ta form av et par timers seminar med overskriften «Lær Design Thinking». Slike kurs kan gi innsikt i Design Thinking-prosessen, men kan også medføre at Design Thinking fort blir oppfattet som et trendy buzzord. Design Thinking er nemlig ikke en kvikkfiks på ethvert problem. For å kunne gjennomføre en god Design Thinking-prosess trenger du mer enn et introduksjonskurs: Design Thinking er en prosess som krever kunnskap, øvelse, tid og hardt arbeid.
Intertwined - What does it mean to be a creative person of faith?
(last edited: 2019)
author(s): Joshua Hale, Kelly J. Arbeau
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
From the most religious to the most secular, no artist ever knows exactly where their creative process is leading—but we all seem to have faith that we will get there. Many factors underlying creativity are also crucial to the act of having faith. These shared factors include ambiguity tolerance, openness to mystery, engaging with paradoxical thinking, perseverance, and questioning. Additionally, those who practice each (creativity, faith) share many guiding phrases, such as “take it one step at a time,” “go with your heart,” and “trust the process.” This interdisciplinary arts-based research project explores the experience of being a self-identified creative who practices a faith or religion. The exhibition combines methods from arts-based research, human centered design, and phenomenology to describe the intersections between the creative practices and faith perspectives of 15 individuals. The experience of our participants is that of creativity and faith combining—intertwining—to form an interactional, hybrid experience that is profoundly different from each experience on its own.
