New Thinking & Emerging Thoughts: Practice As Research In Design, Art And Technology (original) (raw)

This special issue of DAT considers thinking in the South. It asks, ‘Where practice is constituted as inquiry, what might Southern voices look like in Art & Design research?’ In compiling this special issue of DAT, we asked 13 doctoral candidates in Brazil and New Zealand to consider these issues in relation to their current practice. The majority of the authors are currently pursuing research through two universities: Universidade Anhembi Morumbi in Sao Paulo, Brazil and AUT University in Auckland, New Zealand. In writing these articles, they adopted the position of first author and, supported by a supervisor/ mentor, they considered the question of practice-led inquiry in relation to a current research project. All of these researchers push at parameters to activate distinctive ways that practice might resource knowledge. They draw on cultural, geographical and ideological positions shaped by their locations in the South. Thus, in offering these considerations of practice-led research, we propose that we might learn ‘from’ rather ‘about’ emerging scholarship that generates knowledge beyond the emphases of the Global North. The collection proposes both convergences and divergences with established thinking. It emanates from an acknowledgment that the “peculiar histories that generate social and artistic practices, form dialogic encounters with voices on the peripheries of authority and loop back and forth in an iterative process to generate theory from the ground.” In so doing, DAT offers a collection of distinctive voices that speak from, and into, a renegotiating world. These voices question through practice, Connell’s ideas of a traditionally pure and authoritative Global North but, they also reassert the nature of practice-led research in Art & Design as something both culturally formed and self-responsible. Summary New Thinking & Emerging Thoughts: Practice As Research In Design, Art And Technology - Sérgio Nesteriuk, Welby Ings; Navigating artistic inquiry in a creative-production thesis: the narrative and illustrative potentials of realismo maravilhoso - Tatiana Tavares, Welby Ings; Interactive digital images: from simulacrum to immersion - Leonardo Lima, Gilbertto Prado; Mourning Songs: signing practice-led research in everyday life - Emily O’Hara, Maria O’Connor; Heuristics – A framework to clarify practice-led research - F. Derek Ventling; The artist’s book as a space for discourse - Cristiane Alcântara, Monica Tavares; Police, Criminal, Dog, Dentist: An Interactive Audiovisual Installation - Júlio Jackson Marinho, Suzete Venturelli; SEE BEYOND: contributions to the project-based practice of sighted and visually impaired students in the context of higher education in Design - Geraldo Coelho Lima Júnior, Rachel Zuanon; Undoing the Academic Self: Performing Critique and Uncertainty within Practice-led PhD - Rumen Rachev, Dr. Janine Randerson; Pūrākau: He Mahi Rangahau - Robert Pouwhare, Hinematau McNeill; Moana Nui Social Art Practices in Aotearoa - John Vea, Christopher Braddock; Rehearsing Practice as Research - Olivia Webb, Christopher Braddock; Challenges of Open Design: from theory to practice - Rodrigo Argenton Freire, Evandro Ziggiatti Monteiro, Claudio Lima Ferreira; Practice-led doctoral research and the nature of immersive methods - Marcos Steagall, Welby Ings.