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Research development workshop: Research ethics Wednesday 11th November 13.00-15.00 SB30, Garthdee House Annexe led by Nicola Chambury and Hilal Buğalı Dear all For Wednesday’s research development workshop we will look at the issues around research ethics. We will start by examining the different philosophical approaches informing our decision-making processes, which also help us determine what is ethical and what […]
May 25, 2015
Research through and within Design in Action Nil Gulari and Chris Fremantle Wednesday 27th May, 1.00pm-3.00pm, SB01, Scott Sutherland Building ‘Design in Action’, AHRC funded Knowledge Exchange Hub, is a Scotland-wide partnership across six institutions exploring design as a strategy for economic growth in Scotland. www.designinaction.com In this DART Seminar, we have Michael Pierre Johnson, PhD […]
May 12, 2015
The Political in Design, Wednesday 13th May, 1.00pm-3.00pm, SB01, Scott Sutherland Building led by Hilal Buğalı This Wednesday’s DART session is about the current stage of Buğalı’s PhD research. In her previous DART in November 2014, she chose to discuss the methodological aspects of her research, and shared some early findings of the ethnographic observations. In this week’s session, […]
May 8, 2015
1984 Dinner Friday, May 8th, 1-3 pm, ABS 608/609 Sophie Hope will lead a research seminar/workshop around her current project on art and politics in the year 1984 opening up the project to questions from the room. The project involves a series of dinners in Singapore, Australia and South Africa with people active politically and […]
April 13, 2015
Locating the artist in cultural leadership. Wednesday 15th April, 1-3pm H303 I would like to use Wednesday’s DART session to test and (hopefully) extend some thinking in progress. Specifically, I’m looking at the relationship between the concepts of the ‘Artist as Leader’ and ‘cultural leadership’, and I’d like to try out with the group a […]
March 12, 2015
Saturday, March 21st 2015, 17 Belmont Street This month the D.A.R.T has worked in collaboration with SCAN (Scottish Contemporary Art Network) to present an off campus research session. This second event in the SCAN series inviting the research community to afternoon tea in Seventeen Belmont Street. The event will explore alternative strategies for curating and organizing in contemporary art […]
March 11, 2015
Wednesday 18th March, 1.00pm-3.00pm, SB01, Scott Sutherland Building Led by Jim Hamlyn with guest Professor Ken Neil How do depictive images actually work? Do they simply resemble the things they represent and if so, then in what respects do they resemble these things and to what degree? Do we suspend our disbelief whilst indulging the […]
February 18, 2015
Wednesday 18th February 2015, 3.00 – 5.00 pm, SBO1, Scott Sutherland building Chris Fremantle and Gemma Kearney, Design in Action, will present highlights of their recent paper presented ay iJade conference, October 2014 and published by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Owning Failure: can the concept of failure redefine success sets out with some analysis of […]
December 13, 2014
Saturday 13th December 2014, 2.00-4.30pm, Aberdeen Art Gallery This month the D.A.R.T has worked in collaboration with SCAN (Scottish Contemporary Art Network) to present an off campus research session. David Blyth will speak to social anthropologist Petra Tjitske Kalshoven exploring her research into different genealogies of knowledge and London based artist Alana Jelinek who has just […]
November 12, 2014
Wednesday 12th November, 2014, 2-4pm, SB05 (Scott Sutherland) This DART session will focus on social design research and its relation to ethnographic methods. As a relatively new field, social design defines design-based activities addressing social issues rather than pursuing predominantly profit-oriented objectives. In the past, designers borrowed a few methods (and little theory) from social sciences to develop […]
May 15, 2014
Wednesday 15th May, 2014, 2-4pm, G408, Central Services building Leigh-Anne Hepburn will present an overview of her research, facilitating a discussion that explores the role of experience and value within a collaborative design process. How does previous experience shape the way we engage? In what ways do personal motivation, inequality and understanding of design influence the […]
March 5, 2014
Wednesday 5th March, 2014, G408, Central Services Building In this DART session, Dr Gemma Kearney, will examine the concept of the ‘Creative Industries’ with emphasis on the ‘industry’ aspect and discuss the role of the Art School in preparing students to enter the sector. Many creative graduates are required to work entrepreneurially and this requires particular […]
February 5, 2014
Wednesday 5th February 2014. 2– 4 pm. G408 Central Services Building Caroline Gausden will present archival research into Marysia Lewandonska’s online Women’s Audio Archive with the view to exploring the question of missing histories that the project suggests. Leading from an introduction to Lewandonska’ pivotal archive the DART will continue a conversation with Mother Tongue that explores related […]
October 16, 2013
Wednesday 16th October 2013, 1 – 3 pm, G408, Central Services Building, Sam Clark and Judy Spark: two artists aware of each others practice…the possible parallels. One cold emailed the other, by way of lessening the gap. It transpires that they both have an interest in nothing as well as ‘things’ in common. More tangibly perhaps, […]
October 2, 2013
Wednesday 2nd October 2013, 2.30 – 4.30 pm, H602/605. Faculty of Health & Social Care. Helen Smith will present the Lavender Project as an aspect of her research case study within her broader enquiry into Artists, Pragmatism and Reciprocal Exchange: Critiquing Institutional Infrastructures in Organizational Situations. This research begins with the supposition that art has […]
June 17, 2013
Monday 17th June 20139.30am – 4.30pm, H234, Faculty of Health and Social Care Building, Conference Suite The full day research seminar successfully is held with the following presentations: An/Aesth/Ethics- Peter Buwert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xieNbVMhTFo Design Promotion – What’s Innovation got to do with it? -Melehat Nil Gulari https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ms_fR800ms Inhabiting the Process: A Performative Conversation that Begins with Experience […]
May 3, 2013
meaning(less)meanings terms too loud to hear in art and design discourse Monday 17th June 2013 CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS A one-day seminar hosted by Gray’s School of Art Research as part of the DART Seminar Programme. Funded by the IDEAS Research Institute at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. In political, social and academic discourse, terminology and buzzwords […]
March 13, 2013
Wednesday 13th March 2013 ABS 608/609 1.00pm-3.00pm This DART led by Jon Price and François Matarasso explores the state of the relationship between art, policy and society. Taking the form of a conversation between Jon Price and François Matarasso, it will consider artistic practice in the light of political and economic change. What do creative and civic life have to […]
November 21, 2012
Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen 21st November 2012, 1.00 – 3.00pm Venue: SB05, Scott Sutherland Building, Robert Gordon University, Garthdee Road, Aberdeen AB10 7QD This DART Seminar led by Paul Harris and Chris Fremantle explores the shared territory and differences of approach of social and participatory practices across Art and Design. Design talks about […]
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