Course detail

Research Through Art and Design Seminar

FaVU-2SVUaDAcad. year: 2024/2025

The course consists of seminars in which students develop their ability to plan and implement research projects. Students learn how to articulate research aims, identify goals, and plan and carry out activities to achieve their objectives.

 

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Entry knowledge

Research Through Art and Design.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Credits awarded on the basis of seminar participation and working on course assignments. Attendance of more than 75% is required.

 

Seminars take place at the premises of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology according to the course schedule. Attendance of more than 75% is required.

 

Aims

The aim of this practical course is to provide further insight into research in/through art and design and to develop skills and competences that such practice requires.

 

Upon the completion of the course, students know how to articulate aims of their research projects, identify goals, and plan and carry out activities to achieve their objectives.

 

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Bartlová, Milena. 2018. Doktorské studium výtvarných umění: nesmysl, nebo šance? artalk, 5. prosince. https://artalk.cz/2018/12/05/doktorske-studium-vytvarnych-umeni-nesmysl-nebo-sance/
Bartlová, Milena & Zdeněk Bezecný, eds. 2020. Umělecký výzkum na UMPRUM. Praha: UMPRUM.
Borgdorff, Henk. 2012. The Conflict of the Faculties: Perspectives on Artistic Research and Academia. Leiden: Leiden University Press.
Buddeus, Ondřej & Magdalena Stanová. 2020. Zpráva o uměleckém výzkumu pro AVU (2020). Praha: AVU. https://be.avu.cz/app/uploads/2021/11/zprava_o_umeleckem_vyzkumu_avu_20204.pdf
Cramer, Florian & Nienke Terpsma. 2021. What is Wrong with the Vienna Declaration on Artistic Research? Open! Academy. Onlineopen.org, 21 January. https://onlineopen.org/what-is-wrong-with-the-vienna-declaration-on-artistic-research
Definice druhů výsledků Metodiky hodnocení výzkumných organizací a programů účelové podpory výzkumu, vývoje a inovací. file:///Users/xvveselal/Downloads/Definice_druh%C5%AF_v%C3%BDsledk%C5%AF-1.pdf
Elkins, James, ed. 2009. Artists with PhDs: On the New Doctoral Degree in Studio Art. New Academia Publishing.
Frayling, Christopher. 1993. Research in Art and Design. London: Royal College of Art.
Haraway, Donna. 1988. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective. Feminist Studies 14(3): 575–599.
Hannula, Mika, Juha Suoranta & Tere Vadén. 2005. Artistic Research — Theories, Methods and Practices. Helsinki and Gothenburg: Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki and University of Gothenburg.
Holert, Tom. 2009. Art in the Knowledge-Based Polis. e-flux, Journal #3, February. https://www.e-flux.com/journal/03/68537/art-in-the-knowledge-based-polis/
Jobertová, Daniela & Alice Koubová, eds. 2017. Artistic Research: Is There Some Method? Prague: Academy of Performing Arts (AMU Press).
Klein, Julian. 2017. What Is Artistic Research? JAR — Journal for Artistic Research, April 23. https://www.jar-online.net/what-artistic-research
Koskinen, Ilpo, John Zimmerman, Thomas Binder, Johan Redström & Stephan Wensveen. 2011. Design Research Through Practice: From the Lab, Field, and Showroom. Waltham: Morgan Kaufmann.
Law, John. 2004. After Method: Mess in Social Science Research. London: Routledge. Ludwiński, Jerzy. 2007. Art in the Postartistic Age. In Notes from the Future of Art: Selected Writings by Jerzy Ludwiński, ed. Magdalena Ziołkowska, s. 17–26. Eindhoven: Van Abbemuseum.
Lykke, Nina. 2014. Writing Academic Texts Differently: Intersectional Feminist Methodologies and the Playful Art of Writing. New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis.
Mäki, Teemu. 2014. Art and Research Colliding. Research Catalogue. https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/49919/49920
Manzini, Ezio. 2015. Design, When Everybody Designs: An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
Průchová Hrůzová, Andrea. 2021. Od „co“ k „jak“. Výzvy uměleckého výzkumu pro tvůrčí a akademické sféry 21. století. ArteActa, 4(6). https://arteacta.cz/od-co-k-jak-vyzvy-umeleckeho-vyzkumu-pro-tvurci-a-akademicke-sfery-21-stoleti/
Research Catalogue: An international database for artistic research. https://www.researchcatalogue.net/
Rogoff, Irit. 2019. Becoming Research. The Contemporary Journal. 10 December. https://thecontemporaryjournal.org/strands/critical-pedagogies/becoming-research
Rogoff, Irit. 2010. Practicing Research: Singularizing Knowledge. MaHKUzine: journal of artistic research 9: 37–42. https://issuu.com/hku-online/docs/mahkuzine09_web
Rogoff, Irit. 2008. Turning. e-flux, Journal #0, November. https://www.e-flux.com/journal/00/68470/turning/
Smith, Marquard, ed. 2020. Research: Practitioner, Curator, Educator. Vilnius: Vilnius Academy of Arts Press.
Schwab, Michael. 2019. Expositionality. In Artistic Research: Charting a Field in Expansion, ed. Paulo de Assis & Lucia D`Errico, 27–45. London and New York: Rowman & Littlefield.
Steyerl, Hito. 2022. Estetika odporu? Umělecký výzkum jako disciplína a konflikt. ArteActa, 5(07). https://arteacta.cz/estetika-odporu-umelecky-vyzkum-jako-disciplina-a-konflikt/
Stengers, Isabelle & Stephen Muecke. 2018. Another Science Is Possible: A Manifesto for Slow Science. Cambridge UK: Polity.
Stöckelová, Tereza & Yasar Abu Ghosh, eds. 2013. Etnografie: Improvizace v teorii a terénní praxi. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství Slon.
Veselá, Lenka. 2021. Artistic Research as Academic Borderlands. Journal of Artistic Research. Jar-online.net, 24 May. https://www.jar-online.net/artistic-research-academic-borderlands
Wilson, Mick & Schelte van Ruiten, eds. 2013. SHARE: Handbook for Artistic Research. ELIA — European League of Institutes of the Arts.
Wright, Stephen. 2013. Toward a Lexicon of Usership. Eindhoven: Van Abbemuseum.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme DES_M Master's, 1. year of study, summer semester, elective
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    , 1. year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme VUM_M Master's, 1. year of study, summer semester, elective
    , 1. year of study, summer semester, elective
    , 1. year of study, summer semester, elective
    , 1. year of study, summer semester, elective
    , 1. year of study, summer semester, elective
    , 1. year of study, summer semester, elective
    , 1. year of study, summer semester, elective
    , 1. year of study, summer semester, elective
    , 1. year of study, summer semester, elective
    , 1. year of study, summer semester, elective
    , 1. year of study, summer semester, elective
    , 1. year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Seminar

20 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. What? How? Why? Situating research between creative and academic practice. The parallel histories of artistic research.

2. Methods and methodologies of research through art/design. Adopting/appropriating (hacking) methods of other disciplines, creating new methods. Interdisciplinary/ transdisciplinary practice. Multimodal research.

3. Sharing research results and building research networks. How to find a suitable conference/ workshop (call for proposals/participation, CFP)?

4. Where/how to publish research through art/design? Academic writing, popularization texts, non-scholarly theorizing. Hybrid formats facilitating specific needs of practice-based research.

5. “Exposition” in Research Catalogue (RC). The features and affordances of the exposition format, practical introduction to the RC graphic editor.

6. How to write a project proposal? How to write a funding application? Research project as an intervention. The interconnectedness of project aims, activities, and outcomes.

7. Ethics of research through art/design.

8. Seminar with an invited doctoral researcher.

9. Seminar with an invited doctoral researcher.

10. Seminar with an invited doctoral researcher.