Nida Doctoral School 2017 – Tweezers and Squeezers: Methodological Approaches and Research Methods in Art, Design & Architecture

Please read below about this year’s Nida Doctoral School (NDS) intensive course for DA and PhD students.

NDS is a wonderful opportunity for doctoral candidates to focus on their doctoral thesis development. There are 4 places for Aalto ARTS students and costs will be covered on ARTS School level.

You will find more information and the link to the Application Form by scrolling down.

Tweezers and Squeezers: Methodological Approaches and Research Methods in Art, Design and Architecture
Third Nida Doctoral School intensive course for DA and PhD students in art, design, architecture, humanities and the social sciences

21-26 August 2017
Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania

Application deadline: 31 March 2017

VAA Nida Art Colony, Neringa, Lithuania, 2016. Dronography by Robertas Narkus
 
Theme
The third Nida Doctoral School (NDS) will bring together a multidisciplinary group of practice and theory-based doctoral candidates researching different topics in the context of the visual and performing arts, design and architecture, sharing the common goal of completing a doctoral degree, to discuss and develop the methodological framework of their research projects. NDS will provide a platform for dialogue and the exchange of ideas, as well as a space for sharing feedback and peer support. The aim of NDS 2017 is to focus on research methods and on the development of methodological skills and approaches, and to provide critical feedback from distinguished international tutors.

Finding suitable methods and framing the methodological approach is one of the biggest sources of anxiety and uncertainty for doctoral researchers, especially practice-based, when developing and implementing a research plan. Could I treat my art or design practice as the main method? How should I write about my methodology? Or, as Henk Slager calls it, ‘methodicy’*? How should I safeguard myself and my audience from methodological excess? Does my methodological approach help or limit me in doing my research? When should I think about it: when starting or when concluding my research and thesis? What is the relationship between theory and practice in my research, and which philosophical/theoretical school should I refer to in order to base my argument?

Format
The third NDS will take place on 21-26 August 2017. Each day will include one-hour-long presentations by invited speakers and tutors, followed by one-hour-long discussions. The rest of the day will be dedicated to doctoral student presentations, followed by discussions and feedback (one hour per student). Invited speakers and tutors will act as respondents to the student research development work. The programme will also include slots for individual consultations.

The students are expected to participate in presentations and discussions, and to prepare for the course by studying a reading list compiled by the invited speakers and tutors and provided in early June. In addition to the discussions around the overall topic of the School, students are asked to prepare a 30-minute presentation of their own research and practice, with a special focus on their methodological approach. In these sessions, students will receive feedback from their peers on other doctoral programmes, as well as from the invited speakers and tutors of the School.

Invited Speakers and Tutors
In 2017, NDS has the pleasure to welcome three INVITED SPEAKERS:
–        Dr Joanne Morra, Reader in Art History and Theory, curator of the Doctoral Platform at Central Saintt Martins, University of the Arts London, founding principal editor of Journal of Visual Culture;
–        Dr Marquard Smith, academic, curator, commissioner, programmer, and Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Visual Culture, currently Programme Leader for the MA Museums & Galleries in Education at UCL Institute of Education;
–        Prof Juha Suoranta, social scientist and public intellectual, professor at the University of Tampere, author of ‘Artistic Research Methodology. Narrative, Power and the Public’ (with Mika Hannula and Tere Vadén, 2014), ‘Rebellious Research’ (in Finnish with Sanna, Rynnänen, 2014).

Dr Joanne Morra is a Reader in Art History and Theory at Central Saint Martins (CSM), University of the Arts London. She runs The Doctoral Platform at CSM, and is the Founding Principal Editor of Journal of Visual Culture. She has published widely on modern and contemporary art, in, for instance, New Formations, Art History, Journal of Modern Art, What is Research in the Visual Arts (eds. Holly & Smith). Joanne has edited many collections, including ‘The Limits of Death’ (MUP 2000), ‘The Prosthetic Impulse: From a Posthuman Present to a Biocultural Future’ (MIT 2006), ‘Visual Culture: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies’ (4 volumes, Routledge 2006), ‘Acts of Translation with Bal’ (Sage 2007). Recent activities include the exhibition ‘Saying It’ (Freud Museum London 2012), ‘Intimacy Unguarded: Autobiography, Biography, Memoir’ (with Talbot, 2013), ‘50 Years of Art and Objecthood’ (with Green, Sage 2017), and ‘Inside the Freud Museums: History, Memory and Site-Responsive Art’ (I.B. Tauris 2017).

Dr Marquard Smith is Programme Leader for the MA Museums & Galleries in Education at UCL Institute of Education. He is an academic, curator, commissioner, programmer, and Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Visual Culture. Recent exhibitions curated include, ‘The Global Archive’ (London, 2012), ‘Jordan McKenzie: An Englishman Abroad’ (Istanbul, 2014), and most recently ‘How to Construct a Time Machine’ (Milton Keynes, 2015). Marq writes on artistic research, practice-based research, archives, arts education, and most recently on experimentally in ‘MaHKUscript: Journal of Fine Art Research’. He is author, editor, and co-editor of over 20 books and themed issues of journals including ‘What is Research in the Visual Arts?’ (Yale UP, 2008), ‘Visual Culture Studies’ (Sage, 2008), ‘The Erotic Doll: A Modern Fetish’ (Yale UP, 2013), ‘The Prosthetic Impulse’ (The MIT Press, 2005). Marq’s previous academic roles include: Head of the School of Art and Design History, Kingston University, London; Research Leader and Head of Doctoral Studies in the School of Humanities at Royal College of Art; and Founding Director of the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture at University of Westminster, London.

Prof Juha Suoranta is a Finnish social scientist, and public intellectual. He is currently Professor at the University of Tampere. In total, he has published 38 books, such as ‘The Integrated Media Machine I: A Theoretical Framework’ (co-edited with Mauri Ylä-Kotola, Sam Inkinen and Jari Rinne), 2000; ‘Architecture: Theory, Research, and Practice’ (with Seppo Aura and Juhani Katainen), 2001; ‘Artistic Research. Theories, Methods, and Practices’ (with Mika Hannula and Tere Vadén), 2005; ‘Artistic Research Methodology’ (with Mika Hannula and Tere Vadén), 2014.  Suoranta has published extensively in the fields of education, political sociology of education, radical adult education, critical media education, and critical pedagogy. In his writing, Suoranta is interested in bringing together ideas and material from various disciplines, including media and cultural studies, sociology, educational studies, literature studies and literature.

Three TUTORS will guide the students through the course:
–        Dr Sofia Pantouvaki, scenographer and Professor of Costume Design at Aalto University;
–        Dr Mika Elo, Professor of Artistic Research, Head of Doctoral Programme, Vice-Dean for Research at the University of the Arts Helsinki, Academy of Fine Arts;
–        Konstantinas Bogdanas, artist and Associate Professor of Visual Art at Vilnius Academy of Arts.

Dr Sofia Pantouvaki is a scenographer and Professor of Costume Design at Aalto University. Her background includes over 80 designs for theatre, film, opera and dance productions in Europe, as well as numerous curatorial and exhibition design projects. She is co-author of ‘History of Dress – The Western World and Greece’ (2010), editor, ‘Yannis Metsis – Athens Experimental Ballet’ (2011), and co-editor of ‘Presence and Absence: The Performing Body’ (2014). She is editor of the academic journal ‘Studies in Costume and Performance’, project leader for ‘Visual Aspects of Performance Practice’ and the Vice-Head of Research for OISTAT Costume Design Group. Costume Curator for World Stage Design (2013), and Associate Curator for ‘Costume in Action’ (WSD2013). At Aalto University, she founded ‘Costume in Focus’ and is Principal Investigator of the research project ‘Costume Methodologies’ funded by the Academy of Finland (2014-2018). Sofia has taught and lectured internationally. Her recent research focuses on performance costume, fashion and costume curating, the potential of new materials and embodied technologies in costume practice, and clothing in the concentration camps of the Second World War.

Dr Mika Elo is Professor of Artistic Research at the University of the Arts Helsinki. His research interests include theory of photographic media, philosophical media theory, and artistic research. He participates in discussions in these areas in his capacity as curator, visual artist and researcher. In 2009-2011, he worked on the research project ‘Figures of Touch’ (figuresoftouch.com). In 2012-2013, he co-curated the Finnish exhibition ‘Falling Trees’ at the Biennale Arte 2013 in Venice. He is also a member of the editorial board of the ‘Journal for Artistic Research’.

Konstantinas Bogdanas studied painting at the State Institute of Art (now Vilnius Academy of Arts). He currently lectures on visual art at the Academy. Since 2012, he has supervised doctoral students’ practice-based research. Bogdanas has been exhibiting since 1986. In his artistic career, he focuses on concept-based artwork, andcombines different media (objects, installations, performances, photographs), the most important of which, however, is the medium of language. Formally speaking, Bogdanas is mainly concerned with questions of identity. He questions abstract notions, such as art, nation and perception, as well as the personal understanding of the self. The key words in his work are (non)coincidence, (in)adequacy, (un)necessity, (non)fruition, (un)usefulness, (non)understanding, (in)capability. The most important, though far from obvious key words, are artificiality and vulnerability. An element of humour is present, only it is not so striking; it always succumbs to existential doubt. His ‘poste restante’ posture of silent waiting and non-involvement should also be conceived as a conceptual work of art.

NAC Academic Board members will also contribute to the course.

What is Nida Doctoral School (NDS)?
In Nida, we explore unorthodox approaches to research. Through making, performing, writing and discussing, we test the possibilities for generating knowledge outside the conventional venues and models of academic research. NDS participants are offered a possibility to position their own research and practice within a broader field of research approaches. NDS aims to open up the horizons for experimental development by intersecting with a diversity of disciplines and experiences. The goal of NDS is to provide time, space and a conceptual framework for participants to gain an insight into their field of research, as well as to broaden and diversify their outlook and methodological tools.

Nida Doctoral School is an international programme designed and organised by the Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts, and Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, for doctoral students in the visual and performing arts, design and architecture. In 2017, the University of the Arts Helsinki is joining the organisers’ team.

NDS is tailored for doctoral students in the visual and performing arts, design and architecture. However, some limited places are intended for students within the humanities and social sciences, if their research is related to the arts, design and architecture. The programme comprises seven day-long intensive courses, organised once a year, and 1-6 month-long doctoral residencies which are part of the international Nida Artist-in-Residence Programme (the annual application deadline is 15 March).

Tuition, Funding and Costs
There is no tuition fee. Free accommodation and catering are provided for selected applicants from Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, University of the Arts Helsinki, and Vilnius Academy of Arts. In addition, Aalto and UniArts students are provided with a travel grant. Other participants are expected to cover their accommodation and catering costs, which amount to 300 Eur/person in a double room, and travel costs.

Application
Please fill in the NDS application form.
Application attachments (motivation letter, CV and portfolio) should be sent to rasa.antanaviciute@vda.lt
All application documents should be submitted by 31 March 2017.

Up to 16 students will be invited to take part on the NDS course.

Practical information regarding accommodation, travel arrangements, payment and all other issues will be sent to the selected participants in due course. You can check out the facilities of Nida Art Colony here and the programmes of previous NDS courses here.

For any other queries, please contact Dr Rasa Antanavičiūtė, Manager of NDS and Executive Director of Nida Art Colony, at rasa.antanaviciute@vda.lt

About Nida Art Colony (NAC)
Nida Art Colony is an art and meeting space, surrounded by sand dunes and seas. As a resourceful platform, it runs an Artist-in-Residence Programme, Nida Doctoral School, and initiates art, education and research projects. We aim at a creative confluence of academic and non-academic education, artistic and scientific practice, hard work and leisure.

NAC is a subdivision of Vilnius Academy of Arts, and opened in 2011. It operates all year round, receives about 700 people a year, and provides space for workshops, intensive courses, exhibitions, seminars, rehearsals, artists’ talks and screenings in its premises of 2,500 square metres. Its activities can result in presentations, exhibitions, broadcasts and publications.

NAC is located on the Curonian Spit, a peninsula dividing the Curonian Lagoon and the Baltic Sea. The spit is on the UNESCO World Heritage List as one of the most beautiful and unique cultural landscapes of Europe. It also forms Neringa National Park. Nida is 50 kilometres from the Lithuanian seaport of Klaipėda, and 360 kilometres from the capital city Vilnius.

*Methodicy: ‘[…] a strong belief in a methodology founded on operational strategies which cannot be formulated and legitimized beforehand’ (Henk Slager, The Pleasure of Research, 2015, p. 30).

Invitation: Presentation skills courses for doctoral candidates in April/May

3 courses on presentation skills by the Language Centre (Aalto University), details below

·         Informative Presentations course 12.4.-10.5.2017, Vie-98.1228, H05, 1 ECTS

·         Esitelmöintitaidot kurssi 19.4. – 17.5.2017, Vie-98.1228, H06, 1 op

·         LC-0320 Presentation Skills 2.5. – 18.5., 3 ECTS

Presentation Skills Course for Doctoral Students in English (group H05) and in Finnish (group H06). 

See detailed information below in English and in Finnish. Suomenkielisen kurssin tiedot löydät lopusta.

Informative Presentations course 12.4.-10.5.2017, Vie-98.1228, H05, 1 study point.

A conference presentation coming up? Want to practice and build your confidence? Sign up in Weboodi for a short and effective presentation skills course “Informative presentations”  Vie-98.1228, group H05 (held in English), 1 study point.

The course consists of three sessions:

Wednesday 12.4.2017, 12:30-15.45

Wednesday 26.4.2017, 12:30-15.45

Wednesday 10.5.2017, 12:30-15.45

During the course, you have a chance to practice your presentation skills and public speaking in a small group (max 10 participants). The course consists of video-recorded presentation exercises, personal feedback, and practical tips for planning, structuring and giving your presentation. Moreover, the course is an excellent opportunity to meet other doctoral students and share experiences of conference presentations.

The course held in Aalto University Language Center, Otakaari 1.

Sign up in Weboodi!

Esitelmöintitaidot kurssi 19.4. – 17.5.2017, Vie-98.1228, H06, 1 op.

Hei! Onko sinulla kongressiesiintyminen lähestymässä? Haluatko harjoitella esitystäsi, saada palautetta, vinkkejä ja lisää varmuutta esiintymiseen? 

Esitelmöintitaidot-kurssi, Vie-98.1228, ryhmän H06 opetuskieli on suomi, mutta esityksesi voit toki pitää englanniksikin. Kurssi on suunnattu ensisijaisesti jatko-opiskelijoille ja tavoitteena on harjoitella konferenssiesitelmiä. Esitykset videoidaan ja saat palautetta ja vinkkejä hyvässä hengessä. Kurssi on myös oiva tilaisuus tavata muiden alojen jatko-opiskelijoita ja jakaa kokemuksia. 

Kurssi koostuu kolmesta tapaamisesta:

Ke 19.4.2017 klo 12.30 – 15.45 

Ke 03.5.2017 klo 12.30 – 15.45 

Ke 17.5.2017 klo 12.30 – 15.45 

Harjoitukset pidetään kielikeskuksessa, päärakennus, Otakaari 1, Otaniemi.

Ilmoittaudu nopeasti weboodissa! Kurssilla otetaan vain 10 opiskelijaa. 

LC-0320 Presentation Skills (3 ECTS) 2.5. – 18.5. on Tuesdays and Thursdays 10am-14.30pm  (in English)

This course is for all non-Finnish speaking students and researchers. On the course you´ll get to practice academic presentations, speeches, argumentation and also improvised performing.

The main goal is to feel good about speaking in front of an audience and to improve communication skills in different contexts. You´ll get lots of feedback too!

Register in oodi.

Lost & Found – Call Out for VCD SPRING PUBLICATION & EXHIBITION 2017

VCD SPRING PUBLICATION & EXHIBITION 2017
CALL OUT

THE LOST & FOUND TEAM INVITES VCD STUDENTS (INCL. DOCTORAL STUDENTS!)  TO SUBMIT THEIR WORK TO THE VCD SPRING PUBLICATION & EXHIBITION (AALTO UNIVERSITY)

WHAT IS THIS?
VCD Visual Narrative track is launching a publication celebrating the work produced in the VCD Programme this present academic year. The launch is accompanied with a weekend exhibition extravaganza from May 12th to May 13th at ADD LAB. We are currently looking for the VCD students’ work to include in both the publication and the exhibition.

After the recent changes in both our Programme’s name and location, many of us may have felt a bit lost this year. Considering this, the theme of the publication and exhibition is “Lost & Found”. We want to highlight and embrace the things usually lost in finalized designs and stories; the meandering process, the original idea and maybe even the point of it all.

Let’s find ourselves again.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
We are looking for any work done in or out of school context during the academic year 2016-2017. We want to display your most terrible doodles next to your most magnificent masterpieces, so be brave and daring in your submissions. We accept unfinished work and sketches as well as the more finalized projects.

The more uncomfortable you’re about submitting the work, the better.

WHO SHOULD APPLY:
VCD BA, MA and DA students are encouraged to send us their work. Folk from any brand of New Media are also welcome to take part, if they want. The more the merrier!

HOW TO APPLY:
Please fill this form to apply: https://goo.gl/forms/T5JXRPe4KxW3zP8m2

After sending in the form, we would also like you to send a preview of the work you’re submitting, whether it is for the publication or the exhibition or both.

Send an email to the Lost & Found Team (lostandfoundclub2017@gmail.com), include in your response the same name and title you’ve provided in the form and share with us a preview of your work. File share through cloud services is preferred to attachments.

You are welcome to submit multiple entries!

ARTWORK DROP OFF:
If you want your work to be featured in the publication, send your final files to us before 1.4.2017. (don’t be afraid of being late, there is a bit of wiggle room for sleepy heads).
If you want your work to be featured in the exhibition, provide us with your work before 30.4.2017.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Feel free to ask us any questions, in either Finnish or English.

Cheers,
The Lost & Found Team
lostandfoundclub2017@gmail.com

SAR 2017 Conference Registration is open

PLEASE SPECIFY! – Sharing Artistic Research across Disciplines

The 8th International Conference on Artistic Research
in collaboration with SAR & Uniarts Helsinki

28 – 29 April 2017
Theatre Academy, Helsinki

The Conference registration is open until 13 April 2017!

Find the programme and instructions on registration here: sarconference2017.org

Conference fee: 160/100 €

The conference programme includes more than 40 presentations – followed by 200 participants from across the globe.

Registration closes on 13 April 2017 at 23:59 CET
More about the registration and conference fees here.

For any inquiries about the conference, please contact us at: sar@uniarts.fi
The Conference is a collaboration between Society for Artistic Research (SAR) and University of the Arts Helsinki (Uniarts Helsinki) and it is hosted by the Centre for Artistic Research, Uniarts Helsinki.

Media Lab Doctoral Seminar – March 23, 2017

Welcome to the Media Lab Doctoral Seminar on Thursday March 23rd from 17:00–19:00, note room change to 426 at Miestentie 3 (Otaniemi), 4th floor.

DOM-L0003 Doctor of Arts at Media Lab Seminar
Responsible  teacher: Prof. Lily Díaz-Kommonen

Presentations by Jana Pejoska and Sanna Marttila. See abstracts below.

Jana Pejoska: Designs for an embodied learning experience

Abstract: The study is focused on the research and development of tools for learning that are designed based on the principles of HCI as an embodied experience as defined by Paul Dourish. Considering that social and learning cultures are from the largest part defined by their media and tools for thinking, working, learning and collaborating, it is crucial that the designs of the learning tools are in balance with the culture they are used but also developed in and for. For these reasons the selected methodological approach is research based design, that aims to respond to the needs and strive for developing functional prototypes in an iterative process that includes the end-users from early stages of the research up to the final prototype.

Acknowledging the fact that information and communication are accessible anywhere and at any time with the help of smart mobile devices for users in developed societies, it is important to understand how the context fosters learning. Mobile learning is ubiquitous, context-aware experience, which can occur in any given environment.

I am interested in tools, whether they are software or hardware that would enable an ease of access to information on site and combine both real-world and digital-world learning resources. The tools should enhance the sensory experience of the user to his/her social and physical environment. This embodied experience evokes certain types of interactions and processes of meaning and value.

The results of the study are prototypes of tools that are made for an embodied experience and evidence on their support in situation when learning occurs.

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Jana Pejoska is a doctoral candidate in Media Lab whose main interest is in understanding the creation of good tools that can support learning based on embodied experience. She holds a masters degree in Digital Culture from the University of Jyväskylä where she deepened her experience in games and widened her knowledge in serious games for learning for kids. She worked on her own mobile learning games after that and was active in the serious game industry in Finland. Jana’s latest fascinations are wearables for advanced sensory experiences.

Sanna Marttila: Infrastructuring and Commoning for Cultural Commons

Abstract: This dissertation project centers on co-designing open and meaningful access to vast digital archives of cultural and memory institutions. In the thesis the author reflects on her involvement in three design research cases. Two of the cases are design and development projects of socio-technical infrastructural initiatives aimed at contributing, from different angles, to wider public access to and creative re-use of European digital audiovisual cultural heritage. The first information infrastructure aimed to develop a peer-to-peer audiovisual file-sharing system for creative communities and their emerging media practices. The second initiative developed a Europe-wide portal for digital audiovisual heritage. In the third case the author addresses the cultures surrounding information infrastructures, and discusses means of fostering and sustaining collaboration between cultural and memory institutions and their audiences, through analyzing her engagement with a cultural movement. Through this, she investigates how participatory design activities can strengthen interaction and participation in commons-like frameworks, and explores how commoning and infrastructuring practices could support the emergence of common-pool resources and commons culture.

To frame these three cases, the author builds on the concept of commons, understood as particular arrangements for managing and governing shared resources (Ostrom 1990; Ostrom and Hess 2007; Benkler 2013; Bollier and Helfrich 2012). The focus is particularly on the characteristics of what has lately been referred to as cultural commons (Madison et al. 2010; Hyde 2010; Hess 2012; Bertacchini 2012; Björgvinsson 2014). The cases are analysed by combining this broader framing of commons with a discussion of the concepts of infrastructure and infrastructuring processes (Star and Bowker 2002; Karasti 2014).

The thesis puts forward empirically grounded findings for designing socio-technical infrastructures for digital cultural heritage and people’s everyday media practices. It introduces design principles and strategies directed at professionals both in cultural and memory institutions, as well as in the fields of collaborative media design and human-computer interaction. By building upon design research theory and by engaging with design activities, the thesis also explores the evolving field of co-design and participatory design of information and communication technologies (ICT) and its shifts in focus over time. To conclude, the author suggests that Participatory Design should turn more seriously towards open modalities of collaboration and commons to ensure the relevance of PD in the future.

Screen Shot 2017-03-16 at 11.25.57Sanna Marttila is a doctoral candidate in Aalto University, Media Lab. Her doctoral dissertation explores the role of collaborative design in contributing and sustaining of vibrant cultural commons. As a designer Sanna’s interest includes open and collaborative design and creative re-use of digital cultural heritage.

National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic – new call for applications

A new call for applications within the National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic is open for study, research, teaching and artistic stays during the academic year 2017/2018.
Scholarship application deadline is 30 April 2017 by 16:00 CET (4:00 pm Central European Time).

Scholarship stays can be planned during the academic year 2017/2018. Applications are submitted online at www.scholarships.sk (international applicants).

The National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic supports mobility of international students, PhD students, university teachers, researchers and artists to stay at Slovak universities and Slovak research organisations. Students and PhD students can apply also for a travel allowance together with their scholarship application.

Attached you can find a flyer with basic information about the Programme (in English). The applicants can find detailed information about the Programme at www.scholarships.sk in Slovak, English, Russian, French and Spanish language (if needed we have also flyers in those 5 languages and we can send it to you upon request).

Scholarships of the National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic supports also mobility of university students, PhD students and posdocs of Slovak universities or research organisations to cover their living costs during their study or research stay at a university or research organisation outside Slovakia.

Establishment of the National Scholarship Programme for the Support of Mobility of Students, PhD Students, University Teachers and Researchers was approved by the Government of the Slovak Republic in 2005. The National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic is funded by the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic.

Next deadline for the submission of applications will be on 31 October 2017 for scholarship stays during the summer semester of the academic year 2017/2018.

CFA // ESNE – Madrid International Conference on Innovation in Design Education // 25+26 May 2017 RECHAZADOS x

ESNE, School of Design, Innovation and Technology, will celebrate in Madrid the International Conference on Innovation in Design Education next May 25th-26th, 2017.

http://ciidd.esne.es/en/

This year we didn’t want to miss the opportunity to organize this meeting as an open call for any participant, from our school ESNE or from any other location. We encourage any agent related to design education to be part of this encounter, not just professors but also individuals or teams concerned about academic management, because every contribution is fundamental for the construction of a common conversation towards the best training of future designers.

During this conference we will talk about teaching and education from different perspectives, addressing what we do within the classrooms, the definition of academic programs and the relations between academia and the professional arena and R&D projects. We invite everyone to check our thematic areas and the specific lines suggested.

The details of the conference are available in the website. Prospective participants can find there general guidelines for participation, the extension of the abstracts and communications, the curricular results of the conference and instructions for registration. A Scientific Committee will be in charge of the peer review process. Two key-speakers will complete the schedule of our conference. They will be announced shortly.

Please check periodically the news about the conference that will be announced in our website. Do not hesitate to send an email with questions to the address of the conference: congresoinnovacioned@esne.es

The deadline for the submission of Abstracts is March 12th

For submissions please fill the form of this link:

http://ciidd.esne.es/en/comunicaciones-e-inscripcion/envio-de-resumenes/

http://ciidd.esne.es/en/

Congreso Internacional de Innovación en la Docencia del Diseño

International Conference on Innovation in Design Education

 

Avenida Alfonso XIII, Nº 97
28016, Madrid, España
+34 91 555 25 28
+34 91 555 63 37 (fax)
www.esne.es

 

PoDoCo information event 14th March

Post Docs in Companies (PoDoCo) holds an information event related to the ongoing call (1.3-13.4.2017). This is targeted to doctoral students and young post docs.

https://inside.aalto.fi/display/tapahtumat/Post+Docs+in+Companies+%28PoDoCo%29+information+event+14.3

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Young Doctor – Industry wants you!

Do you want to explore the potential of your cutting-edge ideas? Are you interested in a career in industry? Do you want to put your research knowledge and expertise into practice? PoDoCo program may be just right for you!

PoDoCo (Post Docs in Companies) is a matchmaking program supporting long term competitiveness and strategic renewal of companies and employment of young doctors in the private sector. PoDoCo facilitates novel meetings of postdocs and companies and offer research grants of 6-12 months for young postdocs to investigate new innovative ideas boosting the strategic renewal of Finnish industry. PoDoCo program is aimed for young doctors who wish to work in companies. All young doctors who have recently completed or will soon complete their doctorate degree are welcome to join the PoDoCo program.

In 2017 nine foundations allocate altogether almost one million euros to the program annually. The Program’s foundations are: Finnish Cultural Foundation, Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, Maa- ja Vesitekniikantuki ry, Svenska Kulturfonden, Finnish Foundation for Technology Promotion, Maj and Tor Nessling Foundation, The Foundation for Economic Education KAUTE Foundation and Technology Industries of Finland Centennial Foundation. PoDoCo program is operated by DIMECC Ltd.

The PoDoCo spring 2017 application round will take place within 1.3.-13.4.2017. To participate in the PoDoCo spring 2017 application round fill in PoDoCo postdoc profile at PoDoDo matchmaking system.

PoDoCo information event is arranged on March 14th at 14:00-15:00 in Aalto University, TUAS building, auditorium TU2 (Maarintie 8, 02150 Espoo).

Further information about PoDoCo program and the application round is available on the PoDoCo website at http://www.podoco.fi and from PoDoCo Program Manager Essi Huttu, essi.huttu(at)dimecc.com, tel. + 358 40 840 9259.

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Kati Miettunen
Project manager (TkT, dosentti / D.Sc.)
Energy and Materials platforms

FAG3171 Ethnography of Space and Place

PhD Course at the division of Urban and Regional Studies, KTH
27th of April to 4th of May 2017
 
The study of the city has undergone a transformation during the past ten years integrating ever wider theoretical perspectives from anthropology, cultural geography, political economy, urban sociology, and regional and city planning, and expanding its attention to the city as physical, architectural and virtual form.  An emphasis on spatial relations and consumption as well as urban planning and design decision-making provides new insights into material, ideological and metaphorical aspects of the urban environment.  Reliance on ethnography of space and place allows researchers to present an experience-near account of everyday life in urban housing or local markets, while at the same time addressing macro-processes such as globalization and the new urban social order.                         
 
This course sketches some of the methodological and theoretical implications of the ethnographic study of the contemporary city using anthropological tools of participant observation, field notes, behavioral mapping, and theories of space and place to illuminate spaces in modern/post-modern cities and their transformations.  In doing so, the course underscores links between the shape, vision and experience of cities and the meanings that their citizens read off screens and streets into their own lives. 
 
The course is developed in collaboration between the Center for the Future of Places, KTH and the division of Urban and regional Studies.
 
The course is 3 ects with beforehand reading, 5 days in Stockholm and a written assignment to be handed in afterwards.
 
Course objectives:
After completing the course, the student will:
–  Be able to employ ethnographic methods to study phenomena of place and space
– Be able to present experience-near accounts of everyday situated life, while at the same time addressing macro-processes such as globalization and the new urban social order.
– Display a comprehension of the variegated ways through which contemporary urban experience is mediated.
 
Participants need to be accepted into a PhD program in planning studies, urban and regional studies, or a related field.
Grading: P/F
 
Applications and questions:
By email to Jonathan Metzger, jonathan.metzger@abe.kth.se.
 
Final reading list will be provided in the beginning of April.
 
Preliminary Schedule:
27th of April What constitutes the anthropology of space and place?  How is it different from a geography of space and place?  Why would this be a helpful body of theory and methodology for my research and scholarly development? 
Introduction: The Anthropology of Space and Place
Social co-production of scape
28th of April Social Production of Space: History, Political Economy, Planning and Power
Introduction to fieldwork: Participant Observation and Field notes as a Method for Understanding the Social Construction of Space
2nd of May  Social Construction of Space: Race, Class and Gender
Introduction fieldwork:  Behavioral Mapping
4th of May Presentation and final discussion
 
 
Course leader: Setha Low
Setha Low received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. She started her career as an Assistant and Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, City and Regional Planning, and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Low is currently Professor of Environmental Psychology, Geography, Anthropology, and Women’s Studies, and Director of the Public Space Research Group at The Graduate Center, City University of New York where she teach courses and trains Ph.D. students in the anthropology of space and place, urban anthropology, culture and environment, and cultural values in historic preservation. Her most recent books include: Politics of Public Space (2006 Routledge with Neil Smith), Rethinking Urban Parks: Public Space and Cultural Diversity (2005, University of Texas Press with S. Scheld and D. Taplin), Behind the Gates: Life, Security and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America (2004, Routledge), The Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture (2003, Blackwell with D. Lawrence-Zuniga), On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture (2000, University of Texas), Theorizing the City: The New Urban Anthropology Reader (1999, Rutgers University Press), Place Attachment (1992, Plenum with I. Altman). Her current research is on the impact of private governance on New York City coop residents, working on a collaborative project with Dolores Hayden on Spatial Methods and Public Practices funded by CASBC at Stanford, and is writing a book entitled Spatializing Culture: An Anthropological Theory of Space and Place.
 
 
Jonathan Metzger, (Docent, PhD)
Associate Professor / Universitetslektor
Director of Postgraduate Research Studies
Division of Urban and Regional Studies
KTH – Royal Institute of Technology
Stockholm, Sweden
 
telephone: +46-(0)8-7907905
cell: +46-(0)70-4451593

Call For Papers: Photography and the Archive Research Centre

Photography and the Archive Research Centre

*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***

Art and Reconciliation Sarajevo, Bosnia. June 30-July 2, 2017

Fast Forward: Women in Photography. Vilnius, Lithuania. November 3-4, 2017

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Why Remember? 
Memory and Forgetting in Times of War and Its Aftermath

3-Day Conference in Sarajevo, Bosnia, June 30 July, July 1, July 2,   2017.

Sponsored by the Photography and the Archive Research Centre (PARC) University of the Arts, London; Salem State University, Massachusetts, USA; WARM Festival, Sarajevo, Bosnia.

Keynote Speakers include
 Simon Norfolk, photographer, and Vladimir Miladinović, artist.

In his book In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies, David Rieff offers a persuasive challenge as to whether the age-long “consensus that it is moral to remember, immoral to forget” still stands in our contemporary era. What should we remember, what should we forget, and why? Do we need to reconfigure the way that we think about memory and its potential impact on issues such as reconciliation and healing in the wake of war? Is memory impotent as a social, political, or aesthetic tool? Rieff’s questions appear more pertinent than ever as wars and conflicts continue to rage in many parts of the world with no end in sight.

These questions of memory (and forgetting) are intensely political and have far-reaching consequences. This conference will engage with difficult and troubling questions around the value and nature of memory such as how do they reverberate in the context of post- war societies, post-conflict reconciliation, prevention, questions of memory and past events? Does memory discourse help us push the borders of how the concept of memory is currently being configured and applied? To what extent do we remember the past and how do we choose what to remember and why we remember? How could and should (consciously and unconsciously) memory processes shape the present and future? How might public institutions (such as museums and other heritage sites that support education/awareness) deal with the past? What is the difference between commemoration and memorialization? Where do they intersect and how might they impact the process of reconciliation and prevention? How can art function as a site of the aesthetic interpretation of the past?

We seek papers from a wide-range of historical and geographical spaces that address the discursive limits of contemporary memory studies, particularly drawing on these areas of study:

*   Film/media studies

*   Museum studies/objects/ New Materialism

*   Visual arts

*   Literature/Narrative

*   Music/Performance

*   Necropolitics/Forensics/Anthropology

*   Politics and aesthetics

**Interdisciplinary approaches to memory and remembrance studies are welcome.

There will be two styles of presentations: more formal papers of 20-25 minutes and workshop idea papers of 10-15 minutes. We welcome submissions from artists, early career researchers and post-docs as well as established scholars. We encourage applications from a range of academics, current PhD students, especially those outside of Western European institutions. All papers will be delivered in English.

Paper proposals should include:

*   author name(s), affiliation(s) and contact email,

*   paper title,

*   a paper abstract (200 words max),

*   and short bio (200 words max).

Please clearly indicate whether you are submitting formal paper or a workshop idea paper. 
This academic conference is linked to the Art and Reconciliation AHRC funded research project currently being undertaken by The University of the Arts London, King’s College War studies Department, and the LSE. The research is under the auspices of the PACCS Conflict Programme. 
It is also part of the larger WARM festival, which takes place in Sarajevo, Bosnia each summer, and “is dedicated to war reporting, war art, war memory. WARM is bringing together people – journalists, artists, historians, researchers, activists – with a common passion for ‘telling the story with excellence and integrity’.”

See this link for more information.

Registration cost: 150 Euros. 
Concessionary rates are available for faculty applying from non-EU, non-US institutions, and for those who can present a case for reduced fees. Information about hostels and hotels will be provided for participants. 
The conference is supported by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Salem State University, Massachusetts, and the Photography and the Archive Research Centre (PARC) at the University of the Arts London.

Please submit your proposals no later than March 17th, 2017 to why.remember.conference@gmail.com.

Decisions will be made by March 31, 2017.

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Fast Forward: Women in Photography – Lithuanian Edition

National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania, 3-4 November 2017

Please submit your proposals by 8 April 2017 to:

fastforward@ucreative.ac.uk

Building on the success of the Fast Forward conference at Tate Modern in 2015, co-organized by Tate, University forthe Creative Arts (UCA) and Photography and the Archive Research Centre (PARC) at University for the Arts London, Lithuanian Photographers Association announces the second edition of the Fast Forward conference in collaboration with UCA and UAL/PARC to take place at the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius.

Photography has been a political tool as well as a means of artistic expression. Women have used it in various ways including discussions around their rights, their economic and social insecurity, and their representation in culture and society. Through studying women photographers’ lives, celebrating their creative achievements and contribution to international photographic history, we can discover important insights and inspiration for current issues and discussions generated by global political forces, and also become aware of the obstacles women photographers have to overcome as they have pursued their work.

We are interested in papers which span the entire history of photography, from the 19th century to the present day and which also encompass photography’s different methodologies, from art practice to commercial /industrial work.

One of the foci of this Fast Forward edition is to enable opportunities for researchers to present to an international audience new knowledge about the role of women photographers in the cultural, social and political life of the Baltic States and Eastern Europe – which have a rich academic discourse and vibrant artistic culture combining specific national features with particular local experiences and Western ideas.

We are also interested to present research into, and practitioner accounts of, the experiences of women photographers in parts of the world that are as yet unfamiliar within a US/European photo historical context.

We welcome proposals for artist-led presentations and panels.

In this conference in Lithuania, we aim to bring together international and regional researchers, to share knowledge and consider our potential relationships and networks. This second edition of the Fast Forward conference aims to embrace and celebrate the contributions of women photographers to both art and commerce, regionally and globally, and to engage in pertinent debate that will influence new academic discourse and provide further context for the study and practice of photography.

This conference has a special interest in women photographers from the Baltic States, but is not limited to this. We also welcome abstracts which explore women’s photography throughout the world and across history, and which provide insight into the breadth and complexity of women’s history within photography as practitioners, curators, writers or organizers.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

§  New knowledge about little known histories and forgotten names.

§  Discussions about networks and collaborations since the invention of the medium until today.

§  Explorations of how technologies have influenced women practitioners, past and present.

§  Research on both commercial and art practices that women have developed within the medium of photography from the 19th century to the present.

§  Activism and socially engaged photo practices initiated by women.

§  Diverse identities coming out through photography.

§  The photographic imprint on other artistic media and its use by online communities.

§  Debates about and new conceptualizations of the medium from the perspective of women photographers.

Researchers are invited to explore conceptual, technical and/or stylistic links connecting women photographers in the Baltic region and internationally.

The conference is organized by Lithuanian Photographers Association and Vitas Luckus Photography Centre in collaboration with The University for the Creative Arts and UAL Photography and the Archive Research Centre (PARC) at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, and with the support of the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Submission of the papers as follows:

8 April 2017 – submit 500-word abstract for the peer-review

7 May 2017 – successful applicants will be notified

15 October – full paper is required

Abstracts must be submitted in English only, although the papers could be presented at the conference in Lithuanian or English, which will be the working languages of the conference.

Please submit abstracts as a Word document only with your full name, the name of organization you represent (if relevant) and the title — all placed at the top of the first page. The file should not exceed 1MB. Please email submissions or enquiries to: fastforward@ucreative.ac.uk with the subject “Lithuanian Edition – submission”.