[ISEA2019] Paper: Anne Nigten & Annemarie Piscaer — Colliding systems: formal and real-life learning

Abstract

Keywords: Art education, hybrid learning, transdisciplinary collabora- tion, life long learning, participatory design, peer-learning, creativity, improvisation, situated design, transition design, amateurs, pro-am

In this paper the authors analyse the incompatibilities and collisions that occurred when they tried to implement their real-life learning insights and experiences from transdisciplinary practice in the regular western education programmes for higher education and Vocational Education and Training (VET). The analysed case studies share an interest in transition issues in urban environments. The issues at stake were considered to be complex and were approached according to an artistic, designerly and participatory way of working. All projects had an innovative scope and thus an open ending or unknown outcomes at its starting phase. The case studies (interim) outcomes and its obstacles and challenges, that the authors and their collabo- rators encountered in the respective learning processes, were shared and weighted in a series of meetings and workshops with teachers, teacher/artists, teacher/designers, students and laypeople. Besides these feedback sessions and workshops the outcomes of the case studies are complemented with literature studies. The authors conclude  this part of their research with a discussion and suggestions for future research to bridge the experienced systematic or paradigmatic obstacles and future research.

  • Dr. Anne Nigten (NL) is a curator, researcher at HKU University of the Arts Utrecht and the initiating director of The Patching Zone, a transdiscplinary media laboratory for innovation in Rot- terdam (NL). Over the last years she was research professor at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences and the Hanze Univer- sity of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. Prior to her current positions she was director of V2_Lab, the aRt&D department of V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam.
    She frequently publishes on collaboration in art, technology and the creative innovation field. Nigten lectures on collaborative research and development in the trans- and interdisciplinary field from a creatively engaged perspective. She completed her PhD at Smartlab, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (UK).                      patchingzone.net https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anne_Nigten
  • Annemarie Piscaer (NL) is a designer, guest-lecturer (the Design Academy Eindhoven and Avans University of Applied Sciences, Art faculty St. Joost), initiator of Studio Dust, a participatory research by design studio with the principle that all has value even dust -‘from dust to dust’- and member of the City Lab ‘Stadslab Luchtkwaliteit’. In the last few years she developed participatory design projects by using material research as a communicative instrument to connect unusual domains and disci- plines. This practice with its transcending boundaries between disciplines was ground for the research about consequences of this for design education ‘As a designer I’m an expert I’m an amateur’. She completed the Design Academy Eindhoven (NL) and Master Education in Arts at the Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam (NL). studiodust.nl  ser-vies.nl                              researchgate.net/profile/Annemarie_Piscaer

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