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Studies in Material Thinking Material Thinking as Document 1+1 one text selection + one reflective response Context Art and Design research students are typically engaged across multiple intellectual and creative processes including the production of material artefacts, explanatory/critical textual artefacts and digital documentation artefacts as well. Visual and written texts document the creative and research approaches and methods. These texts currently fulfil institutional and educational requirements for evidence of material thinking in practice-based research. Exegetical and philosophical texts serve to acknowledge or to challenge existing discourses, to reproduce critical moments/events or maybe to provide independent parallel artefacts. The written work always takes on a particular relationship with the material practice as they both evolve in tandem or as a cycle of successive interventions. Written texts may at times serve in a supportive way the evolution of the studio work/design or at times it may intersect in a more active, influential way. Material thinking emerges from these crossovers and intersections. Research and creative practices in art and design emerge from the entanglement of thoughts, studio practices and materials. The plan In response to editorial committee suggestions, Vol. 3 is envisaged as a selection of thesis writing/reporting by recent research candidates – accompanied by a critical, analytical or reflective text. The selections might reflect the shared or contested values that emerge out of formal and informal research conversations between supervisors and candidates/authors. They might be compact segments of particularly high quality, appropriate structure or radical style. Or they might be a complete chapter from an exegesis, a well-documented report segment or analytical component of the research package. Each selection would be accompanied by a brief (critical/reflective/scholarly) introduction by the professor/supervisor/examiner, outlining a rational for the choice and highlighting the particular quality of the selection. In this way, a dialogue about the form of research documentation and analysis will already have been initiated. It may be possible to extend the on-line site to open the way for the addition of links and an on-going discussion. There is also the potential to link interested readers back to the on-line or library sources of the complete thesis from which the extracts have been selected.
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