research projects at gradcam
new project funding
In Spring 2009, through the development initiative of Nollaig O'Fionghaile, Development Manager, consortium members achieved new project funding for:
- "Artist As Citizen: European Publics and the European City"
EC-EAC (European Commission Education, AudioVisual & Culture Executive Agency) Strand 2 - lead partner NCAD 52,800 euro. This project will showcase, examine and compare methods and approaches of artists and cultural theorists working in Europe, on questions concerning art in public involving artists, curators and now a professional network of partners through the European Arts Research Network (EARN). This is a mobility project on aspects of artistic research and the public sphere.
- "Creative Policies for the Creative City"
EC-EAC (European Commission Education, AudioVisual & Culture Executive Agency) Strand 2 - lead partner IADT 90,000.0 euro. The Creative Policies for the Creative City is a project to develop cultural solutions that address scenarios reflecting current issues within each of our regions such as 'developing a multi-cultural civic life for the historical centre of Toledo in Castilla - La Mancha; facilitating the engagement of marginalised and disadvantaged groups in society in formulating urban solutions for Newcastle-Gateshead; and addressing a suburban centres civic life outside of office hours for Dún Laoghaire. The Creative Policies for the Creative Cities consortium developed from an informal creative industries network between partners IADT- GradCAM (Ireland), Creativity, Culture & Education/ Creative Partnerships (UK) and Simetrías Fundación Internacional (Spain)
current research projects
Researchers participating in the school's core programme are actively progressing a variety of research projects across creative arts and media. Many of these research projects are premised on the direct production of creative works and the realisation of practical or performative outputs, while some conform to a standard humanities text production model or experiment within a broad strand of critical textual practice. Thus, several research projects current in the School operate primarily or solely on the basis of written work.
The School is keen to support researchers working across a wide spectrum of research modalities and topics within the broad remit of creative arts and media. These projects reflect and build upon the diversity of research traditions across the collaborating institutions and their different centres and units. We believe that over time, and as we pursue our strategic goals, the breadth of disciplinary-mix and the diversity of research projects will grow even further. Unlike a dedicated research centre our purpose is not exclusive specialisation but rather general enhancement of the researchers active across the broadly conceived domain of creative arts and media.
Balancing this broad agenda for research development and the pro-active enhancement of the individual researcher, the School has adopted a variety of thematic strands to orient its work. These themes co-ordinate meaningful and challenging interactions between diverse researchers and discipline experts. They provide a framework for an emergent and diverse programme of enquiry. For more details on these themes, and on our overall programme of researcher education, see our programme overview.
some projects conducted by researchers availing of the school's programme include
- An Investigation
of Children’s Primary School Seating: the Development and Application
of Design Guidelines and Standards.
- Disclosing the In-Between: Encountering the Liminal in Contemporary Art.
- Locative media
and mapping practice in the creation of urban based participatory artworks.
- Conceptions
of the public sphere: a historical and contemporary investigation of
the relationship between curatorial practice and notions of ‘publicness’.
- Art, Education
and Event: An Investigation of evental philosophy and informal pedagogies.
- The role of information
and communications technology in mediating the network of relationships
between local authorities and their communities in urban development.
- Playing and becoming
who we are: A genealogy of the contemporary playing subject, oriented
by an ethics of care and inoperativity.
- Practicing Memory:
Archival Theory and Contemporary Art.
- Militarism
and visuality: A photographic exploration of scopic power and spatial
coordination.
- Digital networking
and its impact on the independent music sector.
- Site specific performance
and the development of audiences for theatre.
- Testing the 'creative cities' proposition.
collaborative research projects emerging from seminar groups include
- 'Mobilise: Another city is
possible' (attached to the everyday seminar).
- 'After curating degree zero:
Curatorial archives, discourses, and practices'.
- 'Peer-review for creative arts research' (a project to develop peer-review
protocols for the creative arts).
- 'future_trad: Developing an international graduate programme for traditional
musics'.