Gareth Osborne

Postdoctoral researcher in immersive arts
research interests: practice-based research, immersive arts, immersive learning, education, immersive theatre, Digital Storytelling, Embodied knowledge, artificial intelligence, participatory design, collaborative creativity, cultural spaces, children's participation, children's literature, artistic research, creative writing
affiliation: University of Antwerp / University of Essex
orcid: 0000-0003-3122-3680
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Gareth Osborne is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow in immersive arts at the University of Antwerp and University of Essex for the YUFE progamme (Young Universities for the Future of Europe). He examines arts practices that invite participants to perform belief in experiences as real, drawing immersive media into contact with literature, theatre and education.

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  • The application of creative practice as a means of disrupting or re-defining the dynamics of power in, with or for different communities. (2022) author(s): Sabrin Hasbun, Gareth Osborne, Rachel Carney, Julika Gittner, Catherine Cartwright, agnes villette, Harry Matthews published in: Journal for Artistic Research
    In this exposition, seven research practitioners investigate how creative practice can be applied as a form of knowledge production in order to disrupt or re-define the dynamics of power in a range of different contexts. These applications of creative practice take varied and complex forms, often transferring creativity from the practitioner-researcher to their participants, increasing participant agency or re-defining existing hierarchies, as they form, empower, and enlighten real and conceptual communities. This collaborative exposition has been developed through presentations and discussions over the course of two years. Although each researcher applies different methodologies to their individual projects, our work as a group followed a pattern of creative practice, reflection, and reformulation, as we responded to each other’s research, creating a research community of our own. We want to emphasize that creative practice can not only disrupt or re-define the dynamics of power in a range of different contexts, but that it can do this in an infinite number of ways. In this variety and adaptability lies the potential of creative research.
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