The 2024-2025 Deep Futures Research Group trajectory is titled 'Making Public' and departs from an ongoing writing excercise initiated by Design Lector Alice Twemlow and several (former) Research Group members in 2021 and developed since then. We are excited to welcome back: Louis Braddock Clarke (tutor, BA Graphic Design), Carl Johan Högberg (co-head of department, BA Fine Arts), Katrin Korfmann (tutor, BA Graphic Design), Hannes Bernard (tutor, BA Graphic Design), Alexander Cromer (tutor, MA Non Linear Narrative), Victoria Meniakina (tutor, Interior Architecture and Furniture Design) and Jasper Coppes (tutor, MA Artistic Research).

Over the course of one academic year, the members of this group each continue with their individual research project and contribute to collectively generated research that will take the shape of a publication titled 'Fray of Messays' to be published in 2025. For this publication the Research Group employs the self-developed method and form of the 'messay' (a term coined by Guy Livingstone) which, as the name might suggest, is a form of even-more ‘unpolished writing’ than the form of the essay.

In monthly day-long meetings, group members visit and immerse in one another’s sites of research, conduct close readings of key texts, experiment with writing about and documenting practice-based research, receive feedback from visiting guests as well as in dialogue with students and other peers.

Each member has 0,2 fte added to their contracts to facilitate and support their research.