Research Symposium: June 9 - 11, 2008 in Copenhagen, Denmark
Organized by the Danish Doctoral Schools of Architecture & Design
Programme
Confirmed speakers:
Professor Renaud Barbaras, Université Paris- 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Professor Andrew Benjamin, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Artist Olafur Eliasson, Studio Olafur Eliasson, Germany and Denmark
Professor Sanford Kwinter, Rice University, USA
Professor David Leatherbarrow, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Professor Martin Seel, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Germany
Professor David Summers, University of Virginia, USA
Paradoxes of Appearance
When spectators confront and designers invent works of art and architecture vital questions regarding their appearance arise. These are not simply questions about what appears, also what does not, i.e. what withdraws when works are experienced and created. How do we cope with this withdrawal, with latencies that escape concretization? What are the productive paradoxes associated hereto and how do they influence the processes of making? Based on multiple discourses on these subjects, contemporary positions in art, architecture and philosophy draw up new challenges, especially with regard to the creative practices. Within and between these positions emerge potentials for modes of thinking and doing with a new sensitivity.
Venue
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture
Danneskiold-Samsøes Allé 53, Auditorium 6
Research and Practice explores practice-based research in art, craft and design.
RECOMMENDED READING
- Allen, Stan. Practice: Architecture, Technique and Representation. Amsterdam: G+B Arts International, 2000.
- Balkema Anette and Slager, Henk: Artistic Research, Special volume of Lier & Boog Series of Philosophy of Art and Art Theory, vol. 18, Amsterdam 2004.
- Bibliography on supervision, research training, and research in art and design
- Biggs, M. (2004) "Learning from Experience: approaches to the experiential component of practice-based research" in: Forskning, Reflektion, Utveckling. Stockholm, Vetenskapsrådet, 6-21.
- Biggs, Michael. Foundations of practice-based research: proceedings of the research into practice conference
- Buchanan, R. “Declaration by Design: Rhetoric, Argument, and Demonstration in Design Practice” in Margolin, Victor ed. (1989) Design Discourse: History, Theory, Criticism (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press).
- Buchanan, Richard. "Rhetoric, Humanism, and Design." In Discovering Design: Explorations in Design Studies, edited by Richard Buchanan and Victor Margolin, 23-68. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
- Chenail, Ronald J. “But is it research?”
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- Cross, Nigel. "Design Research: A Disciplined Conversation." Design Issues 15, no. 2 (Summer 1999): 5-10.
- Cross, Nigel. "Discovering Design Ability." In Discovering Design, edited by Richard Buchanan and Victor Margolin, 105-120. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
- Frayling, Christopher. "Research in Art and Design." Royal College of Art Research Papers 1, no. 1 (1993-4): 1-5.
- Hanulla, Mika, Suoranta, Juha & Vadén, Tere. Artistic Research – theories, methods and practices, Art Monitor, Gothenburg 2005. “Introduction”, p. 9-22 and “Artistic Research in Practice”, p. 109-118
- Hughes, Rolf. "Experience and Communication" in Reflections 7 (Brussels: Sint-Lucas School of Architecture, 2007)
- Hughes, Rolf. "The Art of Displacement: Designing Experiential Systems and Transverse Epistemologies as Conceptual Criticism." In Footprint Issue # 4, Spring 2009, Agency in Architecture: Reframing Criticality in Theory and Practice
- Klein, J. T. (2004) “Interdisciplinarity and complexity: An evolving relationship” E:CO Special Double Issue Vol. 6 Nos. 1-2.
- Kuhn, T. S. (1970) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd. ed., Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.
- Leavy, P. (2009). Method meets art: Arts-based research practice. New York: Guilford Press.
- Mazé, Ramia, and Johan Redström. "Difficult Forms: Critical Practices in Design and Research." In Proceedings of the conference of the International Association of Societies of Design Research. Hong Kong: IASDR, 2007.
- Mazé, Ramia. Occupying Time: Design, Technology and the Form of Interaction. Stockholm: Axl Books, 2007.
- Mäkelä, Maarit and Routarinne, Sara, eds. The art of research : research practices in art and design. Helsinki, Finland: UIAH, 2006.
- Ryle, G. (1949) The Concept of Mind. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
- Schön, D. (1981) The Reflective Practitioner. New York: Jossey-Bass.
- Shales, Ezra: “Technophilic Craft”, American Craft Magazine, April/May 2008.
- Simons, H. W., ed. (1990) The Rhetorical Turn: Invention and Persuasion in the Conduct of Inquiry (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press)
- Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Something (catalogue)
Dendritic computer
by Pablo Miranda and Arijana Kajfes
Vannevar Bush, As we May Think (1945)
The difficulty seems to be, not so much that we publish unduly in view of the extent and variety of present day interests, but rather that publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record. The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.
But there are signs of a change as new and powerful instrumentalities come into use...
But there are signs of a change as new and powerful instrumentalities come into use...
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About Me
- Rolf Hughes
- Writer & critic; Guest Professor in Theory and Practice-Based Research at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm; Senior Professor in Research Design at the Sint-Lucas School of Architecture, Brussels & Ghent; Senior Researcher at the Royal Institute of Technology, School of Architecture, Stockholm.
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