Professional Doctorate Arts + Creative (internal)
About this portal
PD is an advanced degree in universities of applied sciences.
PD stands for Professional Doctorate and it is the equivalent of the PhD for the Dutch Universities of the Applied Sciences. The difference is that a PhD programme at a university trains a professional researcher, while the PD programme at the Universities of Applied Sciences trains an investigative professional.
In 2022, universities of applied sciences will start with a first cohort of candidates in five domains, including the creative domain. More cohorts will be added until 2025.
The PD pilot Arts + Creative is organized by 15 Dutch arts and design schools. It is governed by a Graduate Board of school managers and a Graduate Committee of arts and design professors. The daily procedures and execution are executed by a dedicated taskforce with administrative support from the St. Joost School of Art and Design.
contact person(s): Liza Swaving (Program Manager)
, Eline Timmermans (Communication Expert)
, Carolina Valente Pinto (PD A+C Researcher)
url:
https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2952757/3715989
Recent Activities
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Professional Doctorate Arts + Creative
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): PD Arts + Creative
connected to: Professional Doctorate Arts + Creative (internal)
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
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.
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The Resonance of Vocalising
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): Sophia Bardoutsou
connected to: Professional Doctorate Arts + Creative (internal)
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
The aim of this PD project is to bring artists and citizens together with each other and their environment, and collectively explore how the wordless voice can be a means of communication. Artists leading this project bring understanding from the multiple fields in which they are working – music, theatre, visual arts, and circus. In addition to the collective exploration of connection, the objective is to propose a methodology (which combines and develops from a range of existing methods and is provisionally termed “Resonant Cycles”) and investigate if it can have a transformative impact on the subjectivities of the individual participants.
The project involves interventions in the field of performing arts with the goal of modeling less language-dependent and more inclusive, sensory-rich experiences of cross-disciplinary creation and performance. It invites a holistic and immersive experience of performing arts that brings the physical voice to the forefront and prompts reflection on the essence and meaning of vocal sound regardless of language, and the way that sound itself functions as a means of communication.
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PD Sounding – Listening: Artistic Research as Resistance and Reverberation
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): PD Arts + Creative
connected to: Professional Doctorate Arts + Creative (internal)
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
The public event on 'Sounding - Listening: Artistic Research as Resistance and Reverberation' took place at the Wereldmuseum in Leiden, the Netherlands on 12 december 2024. It is organized by Professional Doctorate Arts + Creative and Research Centre for Material Culture.
