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School of Art and Design · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
This intensively-delivered course focuses on writing about practice-led research. Aimed at students working in the creative arts and design, the course introduces strategies and methods for experimenting with voice, structure, and content. Students will develop a critical awareness of how to think and argue through writing, as well as the skills and confidence required for making research public at an advanced level. Students will write about an art or design subject related to their research questions in order to develop their capacity for critical awareness through self-directed research. Through this investigation, they will incorporate a variety of strategies to experiment with voice, structure, content, and writing styles. Students are encouraged to contact the course convenor to discuss their research.
Participation, including 10 minute oral presentation
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Method workshop documentation and 500 word summary
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4
Poster
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 5
Essay (4000 words)
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
130 hours of total student learning time made up from: a) 35 hours of contact: lectures and tutorials, delivered intensively; and b) 95 hours of independent student research, reading and writing.
Dumit, J. “Writing the Implosion: Teaching the World One Thing at a Time.” Cultural Anthropology Vol. 29 No. 2 (2014). Copies of required readings will be posted on the Wattle site prior to the intensive. Preliminary Reading Barrett, E and Bolt B. (eds.) Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry. London: IB Tauris, 2007. Carter, Paul. Material Thinking: The Theory and Practice of Creative Research. Melbourne: MUP, 2004. Loveless, N. How to Make Art at the End of the World: A Manifesto for Research-Creation, Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.