Glassblowing

Non-human approach,

trusting the material and the processes.

Weaving, textile material exploration, working with yarns, recording and collecting plants to make fibers and yarns.

 

Collecting data and history of surrounding landscapes and plants

Mithila Mohan
Designer
Co-designers
Users
Visual perception
Origami tessellations
Visual narrative
Constructive design
Material design

PEOPLE

 

Curator

educator

PRACTICES/APPROACHES INVOLVED

building conversations/dialogue  

serendipity 

collaborating with different stakeholders 

exhibition building

glassblowing

collaboration

 


Sara Hulkkonen

researcher

co-participants

specialists

researcher/interpreter

KEYWORDS
Documentation
Visualizations
Interviews
Workshops

questioning the power position of researchers >> giving space to research participants and acknowledging their contributions 
Practice-led research
Constructive design research
Multidisciplinary prototyping
Design probes and formal workshops

Blanca

Animated scales that can help participants to identify their feelings or opinions to collect 

Interactive installation

COMMUNICATION 

METHODS
Boundary work
Practice-led research
Constructive design
Ecology


-Feminist epistemology
-Subaltern/ subjectivity
-Collaboration proccess
-Narrative/ hermenutics

-Utopic praxis
-Relational art

 

Research diary

Audiovisual documenting

Reading

Writing

Exposition/Exhibition

data ownership

Erol Mintaş

KEY CONCEPTS

agency 

boundary work/object 

imagination associated change

fiction-based research

diffractions 

embodied knowledge 

tacit knowledge 

articulation / exposition 

practice-led / practice-based research

eco aesthetics

 

 

 

practice-led research

autoethnography

ethnography

"diffraction in action"

"diffraction on action"

 

Decentralization

Decolonization

Organizational Culture/Structure

Adhocracy 

Author theory (Individual)  and Collective (community) filmmaking

Non-state nation film communities

Non-institutional/trans-institutional filmmaking approaches

Practice-led research

Diversity and Inclusion

Anqi Wang

TOPICS & SENSITIVITIES

 

transparency

ethics

sustainable development

co-authorship with other practitioners, seaweed, clothes, nonhumans 

knowledge+care+action 

acknowledging different voices 

bringing different stakeholders in 

cross-disciplinary perspectives 

 
Laureen Mahler

THEORIES

theories related to design thinking and artistic thinking

 

what is a theory?

what is a concept?

how do we find theories to work with?

how to bring together different theories? 

what is the relationship between concepts and theories? 

 

 

 

 

human / non-human

sustainability

skills

new materialism(s)

process ontology

 
Sustainability
Co-authorship
Transparency
Stakeholders

Other discussion points:

  • What can be Research through Art & Design?
  • Role of Artistic Research in Design research > integrating different approaches in different fields
  • positioning the self and research 
  • finding the balance between practice and theory > how to prioritize 
  • finding the theories that can support the research topic