We are pleased to invite submissions for the CA²RE Conference, hosted by the University of Évora under the theme MAPPING.
The event welcomes researchers and practitioners from diverse fields engaged in Design-driven and Artistic Research to share and discuss their projects through intensive peer review and critical dialogue.
LINES OF RESEARCH AND PRESENTATION
Following Christopher Frayling’s seminal text «Research in Art and Design», the conference proposes three lines of research, offering three different frameworks for discussion:
Mapping INTO artistic and design driven research: Using mapping techniques to create, study, analyse, and understand art and design practices, histories, theories, urban or social contexts. Here, mapping is a tool to investigate phenomena within or about the discipline.
Artistic and design driven research THROUGH mapping: Often associated with practice-based or design-driven research. In this case, mapping — whether drawing, diagramming, creating atlases, assembling, etc. — is the central method of research. Knowledge is generated through the act of mapping itself.
Mapping FOR artistic and design driven research: Mapping is conducted to produce knowledge, tools, or strategies that directly inform or support future artistic or design practices, interventions, or methodologies.
We encourage PhD students and early-career researchers to position their research within one of these three lines of research.
WORKSHOP
An additional conceptual mapping workshop will be led by architect and photographer Duarte Belo.
The workshop will involve collaborative research on his work and conceptual process. It will consist in the design of a photography exhibition exploring his work that will remain on display for two weeks following the CA²RE conference.
The workshop shall be held at the exhibition space at Fundação Eugénio de Almeida.
A conference by Duarte Belo will open the exhibition.
Important dates