Design, culture and creative arts research group
The design, culture and creative arts research group possesses a blend of disciplines and diversity of approaches to the arts, design and creative thinking.
Designers, animators, art and design theorists, performing artists, fine art practitioners and new media researchers facilitate debate, discourse and collaboration between a range modes of practice.
Research active staff foster individual initiatives, embrace collaborative inter and multidisciplinary working and nurture creative links with external bodies.
Research within design, culture and creative arts often engages directly with external partners. It proposes new modes of practice that interpret the societal transformative boundaries. And it encourages a move away from traditional contexts and narratives to investigate a transforming cultural landscape brought about by regeneration, changing environments, effects of economic change, new identities and communities as well as perceptions of age and well-being.
The research group forms a coherent regional centre for engagement with creativity, curatorship, art and regeneration, design and innovation, sustainability, and cultural implications of new media, new technologies and new industries.
The group consists of three subgroups that regularly convene to create engagement and discourse with current research practice, incentives and concerns in their specialist fields. We work across the boundaries of discipline to create a dynamic and distinctive research culture of multidisciplinary creative practice, theory and design across the School of Arts & Media and the Institute of Design, Culture and the Arts.
Subgroups
Design and creative arts research feeds back into current and future graduate and postgraduate programmes providing through its activities and outputs (artefacts, events, publications, patents, conferences) a creative profile that demonstrates breadth and innovation of discussion across a variety of creative art forms and disciplines.
The design and creative arts research group incorporates dlab, the University's design enterprise, research and consultancy unit.
dlab is currently involved in cutting edge research projects related to online services and second worlds technology, including financial services training and development, virtual commerce, and mass digitisation of analogue media.
dlab : design in the digital economy
The design culture and the creative arts research group also runs a programme of regular design and creative arts research seminars, in which staff and visiting scholars present papers on current research projects.
For more information on the group contact Rob Burton r.burton@tees.ac.uk
