LINK Symposium on practice-oriented research in design
| Date: | Tuesday 6 Aug, 4pm - 7pm |
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| Location: | AUT South Campus MH Building, MH118 Auckland New Zealand |
| Cost: | Free |
| Contact: | tatiana.tavares@aut.ac.nz |
The inaugural international LINK Symposium on practice-oriented research in design will be hosted at AUT’s South Campus. It provides an opportunity to bring together a community in dialogue about methods and methodologies related to practice-oriented research in design.
The purpose of the event is to increase awareness about practice-oriented research in design and to stimulate practitioners to understand the possibilities of AUT’s Master of Design and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) courses in the School of Art and Design.
The event includes presentations from a range of methodological approaches and epistemologies inside design and visual arts – graphic and game design, indigenous epistemologies and post-photography, presented by professors, lecturers and emerging researchers.
Who should attend
We invite staff, students, alumni and the Auckland design community to join us to be inspired and stimulated by the possibilities of practice-oriented design research.
Presentations
Presenters will demonstrate the potential of design research when practice is an integrated component of study and constituted as a form of inquiry. Each presenter will show different frameworks researchers can use to contextualise their practice.
Professor Sergio Nesteriuk
Professor Sergio Nesteriukwill give a keynote presentation about collaborative practice lead research in game design.
Professor Nesteriuk is Head of Research and Post-grade in Art and Design at University Anhembi Morumbi, Brazil.
He is one of the pioneers of games design studies in Brazil and an academic researcher, independent producer, script and project consultant with international experience, and particular interest in game design, animation, film, television series and transmedia.
Robert Pouwhare
Robert Pouwhare will discuss how artistic practice-led research is challenging conventional academic hegemony by providing a space where indigenous knowledge can be valued and respected. It is a sacred and highly esteemed form of Māori scholarship evidenced by tohunga who are recognised as experts in their fields.
Robert is a lecturer and PhD candidate at Te Ara Poutama, Auckland University of Technology. He is a television director/ producer and app developer with 37 years of production experience in broadcasting.
Dr Marcos Steagall
Dr Marcos Steagall will present his practice-led artistic research project that asks: What are the issues that must be addressed when photographing land, such that one might express an immersive, embodied, spiritually-attuned relationship between the self and what is recorded?
Marcos is the Programme Leader for Communication Design, South Campus at Auckland University of Technology. He is a photographer and designer with 18 years of experience in teaching, curriculum development and course coordination in the tertiary sector.
Dr Derek Ventling
Dr Derek Ventling will present his practice-led creative arts thesis which investigates the metaphysical notion of light as an activating principle and how this is subjectively experienced. Light is phenomenologically explored as a catalytic agent that is interactive yet ephemeral, influencing perception and consciousness. Light is also the research tool used to capture, develop and articulate personal discoveries through designed environments.
Derek was trained in Switzerland as a graphic designer, he has experience in diverse realms of design: education, business and research. He recently completed his doctoral thesis at AUT’s School of Art & Design.
Nivia Boz
Nivia Boz will present Interfaces between Game Design and high-performance sports: a simulator for Rugby. The objective of this research is to study the possibilities of collaboration between the field of design and the sports sciences, through the use of game simulators and to develop a prototype to evaluate if there is transference in this type of training.
Nivia is an International Visiting PhD Student at AUT's South Campus. She holds a Master's Degree in Design from Anhembi Morumbi University (Brazil).
David Van Vliet
David Van Vliet will share his practice-led research project Duregraph which explores ways that digital photography might be manipulated to create an intermedial space that expresses a sense of duration and phenomenological time passing in a single frame.
David is a Master of Design Student at Auckland University of Technology.
Tori Mok
Tori Mok will discuss her practice-led research involving experimental photographic methods. Her work aims to playfully disrupt perceptions of the quotidian, turning the familiar into the unfamiliar, while reflecting on the nature of visual perception as a duality between seeing and failing to see.
Tori is an alumna of Auckland University of Technology’s Master of Design programme, and is currently an AUT Teaching Assistant for Communication Design South. She is a photographer, graphic designer, and artist.
About postgraduate research at AUT’s School of Art and Design
In the School of Art and Design, creative-led research covers a broad range of disciplines. Cultural practitioners, visual artists, spatial and fashion designers, film makers and more – come together to explore broad notions of art and design. The research integrates creative thinking, problem framing and curiosity, often challenging established norms in art and design practice.
Learn more about the possibilities of AUT’s Master of Design and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) courses: