RESEARCH CONSTELLATIONS
Our postgraduate researcher and faculty networks connect across the following fields and more. You can find creative researchers with common interests on our People page. As a new applicant to our programmes you can propose new fields of research, Advisors, faculty and guests aligning with your unique project.
1. Materialism & Ecological Praxis
Posthuman agencies and more-than-human politics in a vibrant, reenchanted world.
New materialism, object-oriented ontologies
Post-object arts
Material sciences
Ecology & environmental activism
Relational landscapes and materialism
Hortifuturism
2. Algorithmic & Generative Media
Automated computation and machine learning as cultural and political production.
Creative technologies
Creative coding & programming
Creative & political computation potentials
Mathematics
Politics of image-based & generative AI
3. Somatics & Corporeality
The performance of bodies in movement.
Choreography, dance, somatic & movement practices
Performing arts
Performance arts
Performative documentary
SPORT & CREATIVE PRACTICE
Theater & screen arts
Transgender studies
4. Sonic Landscapes
Artistic and creative praxis in the sonic and auditory field.
Audiovisual instruments
Composing, sound arts and experimental music
Sonic consciousness, perception, experience & memory
5. Critical Urbanism & Spatial Praxis
Experimental, transdisciplinary explorations of geography, planning, space and place.
Morphology of the built environment
Spatial anthropology
Spatial justice
Spatial practices
architecture
Urban space & cultures
Walking as an art practice
6. Historiography & Speculative Futures
Creative and speculative approaches to history, the archive and the future.
Afrofuturism
Creative & documentary writing
Decolonial methodologies
Memory and the archive
Neo-Africanism
Publics, remembrance and archive
Radical Pedagogy & Institutional Praxis
Experimental pedagogies
Institution as praxis
Publishing as an artistic praxis
7. Making Public
Dialogue and interventions to generate new publics and social relations, and political models.
Art as social practice
Artistic citizenship
Expanded studio practices
Curatorial practices
Cultural engagement through food
Mediation
Peace studies
8. Crafting Media, Interfaces & Technologies
Embodied and material creative practice across media, technologies, and disciplines.
Robotics, stereo-lithography & interactive screens
Sensor-based interfaces
Telematic arts
Graphic design
Textile design & fiber arts
Decorative arts and design
Strategic design
Industrial design
9. Life Studies
Transdisciplinary experiments in inventive and creative research methodologies, creative prose, and cognitive science.