Amna Qureshi

affiliation: University of Lapland, Finland
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Amna Qureshi, holds a PhD in Arts from the University of Lapland, Finland. She delves into artistic and design experiments, with a primary focus on visual design and design thinking processes. She advocates for arts-based research (ABR) to foster creativity and generate novel ideas. Her curiosity extends to bioart trends, which she sees as avenues for inspiration, curation, and collaborative practices, emphasizing shared experiences and authorship. Qureshi's interdisciplinary approach merges the realms of art, creativity, and bioart with social sciences, revealing the intricate connections between artistic expression, human behaviour, and societal dynamics. Through her research endeavours, she not only deepens the comprehension of visual culture and artistic methods but also illuminates broader social and cultural phenomena. Research Profile

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  • Life Between Art and Blood (2023) author(s): Heidi Pietarinen, Amna Qureshi published in: RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
    Artist-researchers Heidi Pietarinen and Amna Qureshi from the University of Lapland have conducted in-depth work on the innovative BioARTech laboratory environment and utilisation of available resources for a bioart project called Life Between Art and (Reindeer) Blood. The aim and focus of the project were to utilise reindeer blood as a reindeer herding by-material instead of treating it as waste material. Both artist-researchers were curious to see how nature as a living design medium becomes perceptible to humans. In this study, a living design medium refers to material production that incorporates simple living organisms such as reindeer blood, material-driven design and co-designing, with an entity having its own agency. Bioart can be used to develop innovative design and art practice to work with nature (biology) and the non-human, such as live tissues (i.e. materials engineered by nature itself), microbes or living organisms (birds, insects, trees and blood), to bring about new design solutions and life processes. Through the arts-based research (ABR) approach, this ground-breaking research aims to develop activities that integrate environmental biotechnology, bioart, surface pattern design, and science.
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Exposition: Life Between Art and Blood (10/03/2023) by Heidi Pietarinen
Amna Qureshi 10/03/2023 at 11:28

First Author: Heidi Pietarinen

Second Author: Amna Qureshi