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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/On the Edge Research"”.
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'Close' as a construct to critically investigate the relationship between the visual artist and the everyday.
This research proposes and develops a critical framework - a 'matrix' to make sense of the artistic process from the practitioner's perspective. It draws from the research of de Certeau into everyday culture and the art historical discourse of Bourriaud that positions art within models of social …
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Ecology and environmental art in public place: talking tree: won't you take a minute and listen to the plight of nature?
My research started with a question: Is it possible to create change if we understand life is interdependent and interrelated with nature in our environment? I researched this question from the perspective of a practising artist in the field of environmental art in the context of ecology. I chose …
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Negotiation-as-active-knowing: an approach evolved from relational art practice.
This PhD research offers a new conception of negotiation that attempts to re-imagine the roles of and relationships between artist and participant-other in social art practice. Negotiation is implicit in art practice, and is often used without elucidation of its exact processes. This research …
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Ethical design: a foundation for visual communication.
The central original contribution to knowledge proposed by this thesis is the setting forth of a conceptualisation of ethical theory specifically in relation to design, with a focus on visual communication design. Building on earlier work by design theorist Clive Dilnot in the area of design ethics …
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Participating in the 'wrong' way?
Through this practice based research I argue that cultural democracy as a way of thinking contests dominant models of commissioning art to effect social change. A method of generative metaphor of critical distance emerges through four projects based on a contextual and theoretical framework that …
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The discourse of cultural leadership.
Cultural leadership has been a key concept in cultural policy and training since 2002. Most closely associated with the UKs Clore Leadership Programme, it has been developed through various courses and initiatives domestically and internationally, initially as a response to crises of financial …
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Imperfect art: working in public: a case study of the Oakland Projects (1991-2001).
In Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art (1994) the author called for a new language of critique for the transient and publicly located art practices known today as social, or public, practices. Since that time authors have taken up the challenge to site the work in art historical, …
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Artist as navigator: understanding how the social qualities of art influence organizational change; a methodology for art as a social practice.
What insights can art reveal in the context of organizational change? How do artistic practices influence the way communities address change? In what ways can an individual artistic practice, concerned with the role of art in society, add new insights to theories and practices of contemporary art? …