“POLIS is a joint initiative from LSE and the London College of Communication aimed at working journalists, people in public life and students in the UK and around the world. POLIS is the place where journalists and the wider world can examine and discuss the media and its impact on society.”
The presence of journalism within the School has gone through a second beginning recently and this new initiative looks like an ideal resource for specialists in this area.
The Experiential Knowledge Conference 2007:
NEW KNOWLEDGE IN THE CREATIVE DISCIPLINES
Deadline for abstracts: 6th January 2007
Conference date: Friday 29 June 2007
Host Institution: University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK
Collaborating Institution: London Metropolitan University, London, UK
Further Support: Journal of Visual Arts Practice, NAFAE, Design Research Society, Middlesex University/DART: AHRC-funded collaborative doctoral training.
Conference team:
Dr Kristina Niedderer, University of Hertfordshire
Rob Godman, University of Hertfordshire
Chris Smith, London Metropolitan University
Linden Reilly, London Metropolitan University
Contact: Dr Kristina Niedderer ekc2007@herts.ac.uk
Conference home page: http://www.art-design.herts.ac.uk/ekc/ekc1.html
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
The first International Conference on Experiential Knowledge will be held on 29th of June 2007 at the University of Hertfordshire and address the theme of “New Knowledge in the Creative Disciplines”.
THE CONFERENCE
EKC 2007 will explore the theme of New Knowledge in the Creative Disciplines to examine what is understood and accepted as new knowledge in research and in creative practice, and what their role and relationship might be.
EKC 2007 will be the first in a series of biennial conferences by the University of Hertfordshire concerned with the issues and understanding of knowledge in research and practice in the creative disciplines. The experiential knowledge conferences will serve to address specific themes, to bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to engender challenging multi-vocal debates around these themes, and to facilitate exchange and cross-fertilisation between the creative disciplines and other practice-led disciplines such as education, health, and knowledge management.
EKC 2007 will take the format of a one-day single-track event – interspersed with some breakout sessions and rounded off by a reception in the Art & Design Gallery of the University and a delicious conference dinner – in order to facilitate constructive and productive discussions. The aspiration is to provide a high-profile conference that can push the debate forward breaking new ground. The organizers aim to achieve this by combining a number of keynote papers by eminent researchers in the field with a call for position papers, which should propose challenging new views on the subject.
Papers selected for the conference proceedings will be published in a Special Issue of the Journal for Visual Arts Practice in Autumn 2007, which is available in both paper and electronic format.
THEME & INVITATION FOR PAPERS
The theme of the Experiential Knowledge Conference 2007 is New Knowledge in the Creative Disciplines. However, the theme can be interpreted differently with regard to research and to practice. Firstly, the concern for ‘new knowledge’ arises because research is defined in terms of the original contribution to knowledge or understanding. Secondly, through the creation of new artefacts, products, services etc, creative practice can be understood to create new realities and experiences, and thus new knowledge.
Through the contribution to knowledge, research aims to advance its field. However, practice also is interested in an advance of its respective field and claims to achieve this advance through its own processes and outcomes. In the creative disciplines, the advance of the field is for example associated with the creation of new artefacts, such as paintings, design products, performances, compositions, films etc. This has raised questions about the format of the contribution of knowledge in research and practice, about its format, and about how new knowledge is created.
In order to address these issues, we wish to bring together people from different fields and disciplines to discuss these problems as well as different approaches to their solution. We invite contributions from the creative disciplines (art & design, music, film & media etc), philosophy, education and knowledge management that are concerned with the nature, role, and management of knowledge within research; and with the role and use of creative practice (both as process and outcome) as a medium by which to include experiential knowledge within research.
Questions of interest are, for example:
- What constitutes (new) knowledge (or understanding) in the creative disciplines?
- What constitutes (new) knowledge (or understanding) in research in the creative disciplines?
- Are the two the same?
- What is the difference between knowledge and understanding?
- In which forms does knowledge (or understanding) appear?
- Where is knowledge situated or contained? (e.g. in the artwork or in the explanation?)
- How is new knowledge (or understanding) communicated in research and in practice?
- For whom is new knowledge or understanding relevant?
- (How) can knowledge management serve to manage, or negotiate between, different kinds of knowledge?
- How can education deal with the communication of knowledge if part of the knowledge is experiential?
- How does education promote the production and/or acquisition of new knowledge or understanding?
SUBMISSIONS
For EKC 2007, we invite position papers, which offer challenging new views on the subject. Position papers will be selected subject to a double blind review process by an international review team. In the first instance we ask for the submission of abstracts. Authors of selected abstracts will be asked to submit full papers. Of those papers invited for the conference, a further selection will be made for publication in the Journal of Visual Arts Practice, Autumn 2007.
We invite the submission of abstracts of 700-800 words for position papers by 6th January 2007.
Authors of selected abstracts will subsequently be invited to submit full papers (3000-5000w) in April 2007.
For further information, please visit the Conference Website:
http://www.art-design.herts.ac.uk/ekc/ekc1.html
For information on the Experiential Knowledge Conference 2007:
http://www.art-design.herts.ac.uk/ekc/ekc1.html
