Research vision: wrap
wrap is a physical research environment located at the Kollomzaal FAA, dedicated to foster a art and research community of a diversity of artistic researchers on an interdisciplinary and interdepartamental common ground. It will serve the FAA student and teaching communities by facilitating, curating and making accessable discussions, strategies, and experiences of artistic research, practice-based research, art-based research, and any approach for doing research in the arts, as well as by enabling collaborative practices at FAA.
wrap will host one-a-one coaching time sessions, as well as workshops, panels, conversartions, reading sessions, etc. from students, teachers, employees, departments and/or FAA initiatives or collaborative projects. Some of the events will be co-organized by another partnering initiative, such as Connective Conversations, Research Days, Research Festival, Fontys Hub and FAA IDEAS. In short, this research space is a comfortable and accessable place to go when FHK students and teachers need help with research.
research as practice: the word research has been highly interpetable, loaded, heavy, and seen as something that stands very far from our students practices. The idea of wrap is to connect the students and teachers with investigative practices that use their experiences and knowledges to guide their interests and specific projects in deeper and sharper co-created guidelines. Everyone interested in any issue in the arts can be benefited from connecting themselves with us.
Common ground
It sounds a bit contradictory when we talk about a common ground perspective of research in the arts, since there are multiple methodologies and ways of doing investigative art practice all around the world. However, a way into a common ground doesn’t have to reduce the scope of researching in the arts, but the opposite - we could identify the major actual investigative trends in artistic research, as well as research practices in the arts. In that way, we could localize ourselves, identifying where we are in this constellation of research varieties in the arts, and then, so we can position ourselves by having access to the investigative practices that dialogue with specific art projects and their needs. My suggestion is to try to have a permanent shelf or table in our space with a few artistic and bibliographic references.
When we talk about artistic research, we can also include very similar approaches, such as design thinking in the arts, art-based research, practice-led research, issue-based research, a/r/tography, etc. These resources can complete our references, and they are encouraged to be discussed in our activities.
Research Space
Concept:
Health/ mind / body / learning/ exploring other ways of learning / embodyment, shared stategies community care / fostering.
The multifunctional space has many opportuites for collaboration, group work, one on one or individual reserach.The space has a light, spaious and playfull atmosphere, Enabeling comfortable rest for the body and mind as well as activites for the body and mind.
Contrast between the object and color or texture of the objects (pink training tools, pink strappers).
The concept is ready-made, made out of every day objects that are reused and easilly dismanteled or moved or asembled. There is a liberty of moving objects around in a playful way, without having to 'tidy up'it is self organizing.
Atmosphere:
Workcafe / co-creation space
Gym / lifestyle / training space
Jungle / garden space
Keywords
Ready-made
assemble/disassemble
Rap battle
Sparring ring
Junge
Present wrap
Colors:
Green: plants, carpert, chairs, objects
Pink: objects
Brown: Plain wood/ rope / Jutte
White/transparant: bubble wrap
Community objects:
Coffee corner
Boxing ring/ stage with microfoon
Activation objects:
Trampoline
Bokxing bags
Pulling rope
Yoga blocks and mats
Barbells
Furniture:
Hammocks
Swings
Matras couch
Wrap (long beam bag)
Green chairs
Possible collaborations:
FAA Professorship - Connective Conversations
FAA MA Research Days
FAA Research Festival
Fontys Hub
FAA IDEAS
Art meets Arts
FAA Kenniscentrum Creatieve Economie
wrap - workspace research as practice
Leanring commuity - creating incredients together
We - Research as Practice
Workspace - Research as Practice
Workshop: Research as Practice
Wokshopping Reserach as Practice
References:
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4039-0545-1_10
https://www.newcastle.edu.au/course/EDUC4182
https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/handbook-of-intuition-research-as-practice-9781788979740.html
https://www.raaaf.nl/en/projects/927_the_end_of_sitting
Active workspace references:
Zitten is het nieuwe roken (sitting is the new smoking)
https://www.umcutrecht.nl/nl/zitten-is-het-nieuwe-roken
RAAAF:The end of sitting
Archive for activation
We will create an archive for activating research workforms, using the props in the space and the different elements (like yogamats, swings etc.)
Activities:
December 2nd - Artistic Research Day - student exchange session - check with Heleen.
March 16th - Artistic Research Day
April 19th - 21st - SAR conference - check with Falk how we can collaborate with it.
May 17th - Artistic Research Festival
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