Research vision: wrap

 

wrap is a physical research environment located at the Kollomzaal FAA, dedicated to foster a art and research community of a diversity of artistic researchers on an interdisciplinary and interdepartamental  common ground. It will serve the FAA student and teaching communities by facilitating, curating and making accessable discussions, strategies, and experiences of artistic research, practice-based research, art-based research, and any approach for doing research in the arts, as well as by enabling collaborative practices at FAA.


wrap will host one-a-one coaching time sessions, as well as workshops, panels, conversartions, reading sessions, etc. from students, teachers, employees, departments and/or FAA initiatives or collaborative projects. Some of the events will be co-organized by another partnering initiative, such as Connective Conversations, Research Days, Research Festival, Fontys Hub and FAA IDEAS. In short, this research space is a comfortable and accessable place to go when FHK students and teachers need help with research.

 

research as practice: the word research has been highly interpetable, loaded, heavy, and seen as something that stands very far from our students practices. The idea of wrap is to connect the students and teachers with investigative practices that use their experiences and knowledges to guide their interests and specific projects in deeper and sharper co-created guidelines. Everyone interested in any issue in the arts can be benefited from connecting themselves with us.
 

 

Common ground

It sounds a bit contradictory when we talk about a common ground perspective of research in the arts, since there are multiple methodologies and ways of doing investigative art practice all around the world. However, a way into a common ground doesn’t have to reduce the scope of researching in the arts, but the opposite - we could identify the major actual investigative trends in artistic research, as well as research practices in the arts. In that way, we could localize ourselves, identifying where we are in this constellation of research varieties in the arts, and then, so we can position ourselves by having access to the investigative practices that dialogue with specific art projects and their needs. My suggestion is to try to have a permanent shelf or table in our space with a few artistic and bibliographic references.

 

When we talk about artistic research, we can also include very similar approaches, such as design thinking in the arts, art-based research, practice-led research, issue-based research, a/r/tography, etc. These resources can complete our references, and they are encouraged to be discussed in our activities.

 


 

Research Space 


Concept:

Health/ mind / body / learning/ exploring other ways of learning / embodyment, shared stategies community care / fostering.

 

The multifunctional space has many opportuites for collaboration, group work, one on one or individual reserach.The space has a light, spaious and playfull atmosphere, Enabeling comfortable rest for the body and mind as well as activites for the body and mind.

 

Contrast between the object and color  or texture of the objects (pink training tools, pink strappers).

 

The concept is ready-made, made out of every day objects that are reused and easilly dismanteled or moved or asembled. There is a liberty of moving objects around in a playful way, without having to 'tidy up'it is self organizing.

 

Atmosphere:

Workcafe / co-creation space

Gym / lifestyle / training space 

Jungle / garden space

 

Colors:

Green: plants, carpert, chairs, objects

Pink: objects

Brown: Plain wood/ rope / Jutte

White/transparant: bubble wrap

 

Community objects:

Coffee corner

Boxing ring/ stage with microfoon


Activation objects:

Trampoline

Bokxing bags

Pulling rope

Yoga blocks and mats

Barbells


Furniture:

Hammocks

Swings 

Matras couch

Wrap (long beam bag)

Green chairs

 

 

Possible collaborations:

Connective Conversations

Research Days

Research Festival

Fontys Hub

FHK IDEAS 

Art  meets Arts

 

wrap - workshop research as practice

Leanring commuity - creating incredients together

 

We - Research as Practice

Workspace - Research as Practice

Workshop: Research as Practice

Wokshopping Reserach as Practice

 

https://beirutartcenter.org/event/workshop-%C2%B7-mariam-ghani-research-as-practice-practice-as-research/

 

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4039-0545-1_10

 

https://www.newcastle.edu.au/course/EDUC4182

 

https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/handbook-of-intuition-research-as-practice-9781788979740.html

 

https://www.raaaf.nl/en/projects/927_the_end_of_sitting

 

 

 

 

 

Keywords

Bubble wrap

Bubbel gum

Wrap battle

Battle ring

Battle junge

Present wrap 

Archive for activation

We will create an archive for activating research workforms, using the props in the space and the different elements (like yogamats, swings etc.)


 

 

 

Activities:


December 2nd - Artistic Research Day - student exchange session - check with Heleen.

March 16th - Artistic Research Day 

April 19th - 21st - SAR conference - check with Falk how we can collaborate with it.

May 17th - Artistic Research Festival


Platen asiel

modulair movable

Vloer  blank hout

Suggestions Fase 2: 

  • I was thinking to print everything from the moodboard (link) life-size and put the images on hardboard (like I did with the dogs, see image attached)
  • we can already make the sofa's from mattrasses, they are in the building. I can order some bands in pink and green to tie them togeter.
  • We can hang blank posters with request for WRaP suggestions? Students and staff can draw sugestions on them (perhaps we can even print those too).
  • Perhaps create office/workhours to be there? I was thinking to do every other week in the Research Mobile and WRaP workspace. 

Meubels:

- fintess apparaat - groen/rode

- Schoolbord op wielen - blank hout

Planten

- planten - vol groen Sanseveria?

- plantenbakke  op wielen - blank hout

Accesoires - groen - roze

- skippy ball / ball 

- zweetbandjes

- handknijpers 

- stretch bands

 

 

Op het schoolbord:

- oproepen

- kantoortijd persoon

- krijt/magneet / prik / kurk