Research in Perspective hosts conversations about research in practice at the WdKA-Piet Zwart Institute. It is a forum for connecting, sharing information and insights, and acknowledging, questioning, and honoring the diversity of approaches, methods, and practices involved in the research we udnertake. Research in Perspective invites guests and welcomes proposals for sessions. Coordination is via the Research Station and Research Center.
Tuesday March 18, 14:00-15:30
Can we talk about this? The hidden rituals and secret stories of artistic and design research.
For the inaugural session of “Research in Perspective,” Skye Maule O’Brien and Aymeric Mansoux, from WdKA, and researchers Pippin Barr and Jaret Vadera, from Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts, will take a deeper dive into the analogue and digital kitchen of artistic and design research. There are tools and rituals we almost never talk about: the mess of post-its, the whiteboard, the nested computer folders, the favourite text/code editor, the specific brand of tea or coffee or snack, (virtual) desktop (dis-organisation), family interruptions/compartmentalisation, neurodivergent workflows, spreadsheets, todos, music playlists, self-inflicted constraints. How to fight or embrace chaos, the bricolage of things from which something will hopefully emerge? There are methods that remain unspoken, undocumented, possibly embarrassing, but that could be pivotal for better understanding artistic and design research.
Pippin Barr, Chair of dept – Design and Computation Arts faculty page<https://www.concordia.ca/faculty/pippin-barr.html> + https://pippinbarr.com/
Jaret Vadera, Faculty page<https://www.concordia.ca/faculty/jaret-vadera.html> + http://www.jaretvadera.com/