Transmission in Motion Seminar (2020-2021): “Knowledge in Making – Design by Doing”
Transmission in Motion Seminar (2020-2021): “Knowledge in Making – Design by Doing”
This year’s Transmission in Motion seminar finds itself inspired by approaches to knowing that zoom in on experimental practices of ‘making’. Making, here, is understood as a form of ‘design by doing’. Such practices of designing a technological device, an artistic concept or a didactic plan embrace unpredictability and contingency by refraining from adhering to step-by-step methods or tick-box approaches. The very point of the practices is to design the most suitable method or approach in ‘the now’ by following the complex interplays of social and technological affordances and constraints. Engineers and makers in studios and makerspaces design by doing by responding productively to both parameters set and opportunities emerging in dynamic situations and environments. More and more scholars participate in these co-creative settings thus innovating the research process.
TiM Seminar Programme (2020-2021)
- 21 October 2020
“Making, Managing and Experiencing ‘the Now’: Digital Media and the Compression and Pacing of ‘Real-Time’”
Rebecca Coleman (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) - 18 November 2020
“Plant-based Dramaturgy”
Manuela Infante (theatre director, Santiago de Chile) - 16 December 2020
“The Cardiff 1919 Riots Redrawn project”
Mike Pearson (Aberystwyth University, UK) - 27 January 2021
“Transmedia Knowledge: Human-Centred Design and Engaged Media”
Jon McKenzie (Cornell University, USA) - 24 February 2021
“Knowledge Transmission with the Lantern”
Frank Kessler, Jamilla Notebaard, Dulce Da Rocha Gonçalves and Nico de Klerk (Utrecht University) - 31 March 2021
“Designing for Serendipity”
Ilona Domen, Merel van Goch, Anastasia Hacopian, Anne Kustritz, Rianne van Lambalgen, Toine Minnaert, Florentine Sterk, Iris van der Tuin and Roosmarijn van Woerden (Utrecht University) - 28 April 2021
“Transmitting Choreographic Knowledge: Notation, Documentation and Design”
Suzan Tunca (ICK Amsterdam Dance Company) and Laura Karreman (Utrecht University) - 26 May 2021
“When Designer Meets Academic – Theory and Practice of Wearables Design”
Pauline van Dongen (Fashion Designer) and Lianne Toussaint (Utrecht University)
The Transmission in Motion Seminar is a more-or-less monthly gathering of researchers and students from across disciplines. To participate, please send an email to tim@uu.nl to receive additional information and readings. RMA Students can acquire 3 EC if they attend all meetings and write blog posts after each meeting. Please register at tim@uu.nl. For more information, contact Maaike Bleeker at m.a.bleeker@uu.nl.