Each year the KABK Deep Futures Research Group hosts a day of sharing and exchange based on our current research projects.

Chaired by Design Lector, Alice Twemlow, the Group is made up of KABK tutors or staff, whose research practices engage with the central theme of the Design Lectorate — making, teaching and researching art and design in the context of climate catastrophe, planetary degradation and the loss of biodiversity.

To help frame and contextualise our work, we will be joined by six special guest speaker-respondents. Each will present their own ways of doing research and provide critical feedback to the Group member researchers.

The presentations centre the processes, methods, questions, and theoretical concepts that fuel the research and are therefore accessible to anyone interested in conducting research through practice. Everyone is welcome to attend all or part of the conference—students, staff, workshop instructors, coordinators, heads, tutors, friends!

Admission is free; reserve your seat in advance sending an email to lectoratedesign@kabk.nl

Programme

11:00 KABK Design Lector, Alice Twemlow, Introduction

Rehearsing Refusal: Researching with the Body
11:20 Invited speaker-respondent, Pilvi Takala
11:40 Deep Futures Research Group member, Noa Marthe Prins, ‘If Not a Worker, Who am I?’
12:00 Deep Futures Research Group member, belit sağ, ‘Embodying the Historical: The Veghel Labour Dispute’
12:40 Critical feedback and moderated discussion
13:30 Lunch break

Transducing: Researching with Energy
14:30 Invited speaker-respondent, James Auger
14:50 Deep Futures Research Group member, Boudewijn Buitenhek, ‘Following the Path of Electrons: Energy Use in Artistic Practice’
15:10 Invited speaker-respondent, Annika Kappner
15:30 Deep Futures Research Group member, Marlot Meyer, ‘Sensitive Systems: Alternative Methods for Mapping Bodies’
15:40 Critical feedback and moderated discussion
16:30 Tea break

Re-enchanting: Researching with the More-than-Human
17:00 Invited speaker-respondent, Kate Scardifield
17:20 Deep Futures Research Group member, Cocky Eek, ‘Dark Skies and the Art of Dreaming’
17:40 Invited speaker-respondent, Filipa Ramos
18:00 Deep Futures Research Group member, Georgie Brinkman, ‘We are Sky-Breakers’
18:20 Critical feedback and moderated discussion
19:00 Drinks reception, KABK Courtyard