CALL FOR PAPERS (Vol. 10, n19)
Habits and desires for encounters between art/design and science
Deadline for full papers: November 4, 2024
Foto: La declaración arcoiris (Lúa Coderch, 2023)
Collaboration between artists/designers and scientists is increasingly common and even encouraged by public and private funding programs. It can occur in the professional field of art and design, within the framework of scientific and artistic dissemination, or as scientific-academic research. The reasons why these dialogues occur are also changing - and often little explained or questioned - as is the origin or context of said collaborations: an art centre, a design studio, an artistic production centre, a scholarship program, a university, research funds, a research centre, and so on.
The symmetry of the collaborations is also different in each case, and may be between two individuals (artist/designer and scientist), between an individual (normally an artist/designer) and an institution dedicated to research (normally scientific), or between institutions that relate their resources, projects and people.
This type of collaboration, with all its differences and nuances, entails very relevant epistemological and methodological challenges that must be analysed and transferred to improve, facilitate and make the dialogue more complex. There is also the challenge of fitting these projects into the academic-labour needs and demands of artists/designers and scientists who also determine the conditions of possibility of collaborations, especially in relation to the resources available for them: work time, economic resources, tools, work space such as workshops and laboratories, specialised support personnel, etc. The academic recognition that both artists and scientists can obtain from the collaboration also depends on this, and is determined by evaluation agencies that have not resolved how to deal with this type of research, or by their own hiring institutions that are tied to a certain type of result due to funding needs and scientific legitimacy.
That is why for the next issue of Inmaterial we are looking for articles and projects that influence these aspects and that analyse, think and transfer experiences of collaboration between art and science, inside or outside the academy.
For example, but not exclusively, we are looking for articles/projects:
- That report, argue and analyse collaborative projects between artistic or design research and different scientific fields.
- That account for creative and research processes at the intersection between art and science, including those that have not been able to prosper or come to an end due to difficulties derived from the same collaboration.
- That explain, argue, analyse and transfer methods applicable in the dialogue between artistic/design research and scientific research.
- That Analyse the epistemological and methodological differences between scientific research and artistic/design research as well as the ways to address them.
- That analyse the difficulties and the conditions of possibility for meetings between artists/designers and scientists.
Submissions must fit the categories and characteristics specified in our guidelines for authors: https://www.inmaterialdesign.com/INM/2. Doubts and prior queries about the fit of the proposals can be directed to info.inmaterialdesign@bau.cat.
Editors: Lúa Coderch i Mariona Moncunill-Piñas
