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This article provides a comparison of design support landscape of three countries: the UK, Estonia and Turkey. The economic and political development patterns and experience of design support within these countries lead to different... more
This article provides a comparison of design support landscape of three countries: the UK, Estonia and Turkey. The economic and political development patterns and experience of design support within these countries lead to different models of design support. The differences are visible in the levels of support, aims of innovation, available resources and opportunities but also priorities. The way in which these projects/programmes are initiated, operate and sustain themselves vary as well. The article aims to understand the future of design support through looking at the versatile programmes in these countries. It provides a historical background of design support by building on specific programmes in these countries. Based on the knowledge drawn from comparison of histories of support, the paper not only makes suggestions for the development of future of design support models.
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There is increasing recognition of the need to treat not only patients but also families and carers with dignity, particularly at times of stress. New hospital design includes rooms variously labelled 'Quiet', 'Family' or 'Interview' for... more
There is increasing recognition of the need to treat not only patients but also families and carers with dignity, particularly at times of stress. New hospital design includes rooms variously labelled 'Quiet', 'Family' or 'Interview' for these purposes. This paper reports on the design process used during the development of the New South Glasgow Hospitals to meet user and service owner needs. The artist leading the project utilised a biophilic design approach and a participatory process of working to both understand users' issues and also to involve users in the design of elements of the scheme.
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We increasingly find co-creativity and participation as central aspects of practices across art and design (including architecture). The politics of social justice and equality continue to underlie and inspire these practices. The... more
We increasingly find co-creativity and participation as central aspects of practices across art and design (including architecture). The politics of social justice and equality continue to underlie and inspire these practices. The discourse on web 2.0 addresses co-creativity and participation, but from quite different perspectives. One of the key aspects of these discourses is the extent to which they recognise context as a critical factor. The other critical factor is the understanding of equality, not in terms of a general social aspiration, but rather as a function within a creative practice. We believe that practices can offer distinctive understandings to debates on social justice and equality. Practitioners seeking social justice and equality describe the importance of involving participants and co-creators, not through evenness of participation, but rather through discernment opening out to larger audiences.
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The paper will draw on a key case study, GROVE, the art and architecture strategy recently completed in NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde’s multi-award winning New Stobhill Hospital. GROVE was developed by poet and artist Thomas A Clark and... more
The paper will draw on a key case study, GROVE, the art and architecture strategy recently completed in NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde’s multi-award winning New Stobhill Hospital. GROVE was developed by poet and artist Thomas A Clark and Andy Law, architect, Reiach & Hall, Edinburgh. In GROVE Clark and Law focused on the experience of 'waiting' in hospital. Their aim was to make waiting a reflective experience and to counteract the anxiety associated with hospitals.
Clark and Law argue that the New Stobhill Hospital is a single work of art, and this is demonstrated by the 'composing' of spaces within the unifying theme of 'A grove of birch in a forest of larch'. The artworks within the architecture that make up GROVE all represent or relate to nature, including short poems installed on walls and windows by Clark, as well as visual artworks (paintings, installations, video) by collaborating artists. For example, across the outpatient clinic waiting areas a poem, a series of videos and installations contribute elements within the architecture to create a sequence of distinctive spaces.
Clark and Law argue that the New Stobhill Hospital is a single work of art, and this is demonstrated by the 'composing' of spaces within the unifying theme of 'A grove of birch in a forest of larch'. The artworks within the architecture that make up GROVE all represent or relate to nature, including short poems installed on walls and windows by Clark, as well as visual artworks (paintings, installations, video) by collaborating artists. For example, across the outpatient clinic waiting areas a poem, a series of videos and installations contribute elements within the architecture to create a sequence of distinctive spaces.
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Jane Jacobs in the Nature of Economies (2000) argues that economies have the same dynamics as ecological systems. Jacobs develops concepts including development, co-development, expansion, feedback loops, bifurcations and emergency... more
Jane Jacobs in the Nature of Economies (2000) argues that economies have the same dynamics as ecological systems. Jacobs develops concepts including development, co-development, expansion, feedback loops, bifurcations and emergency adaptions. Douglas and Fremantle explore Jacobs argument in relation to artistic research and practice, through the lens of 8 years of projects, firstly in the remote and rural North East of Scotland, and more recently through the Working in Public Seminars with Suzanne Lacy, and through The Artist as Leader.
This presentation discuss the concepts and frameworks of the various engaged art practices in the research programme of “On The Edge Research” at the
Gray School of Art, Richard Gordon University, Aberdeen,
http://www2.rgu.ac.uk/subj/ats/research/staff/douglas.html
This presentation discuss the concepts and frameworks of the various engaged art practices in the research programme of “On The Edge Research” at the
Gray School of Art, Richard Gordon University, Aberdeen,
http://www2.rgu.ac.uk/subj/ats/research/staff/douglas.html
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We inhabit the North East of Scotland. We are surrounded by rich and visible references to Scotland’s past. This heritage lives in our sense of the present. We are interested in art happening in the everyday. We make artistic... more
We inhabit the North East of Scotland. We are surrounded by rich and visible references to Scotland’s past. This heritage lives in our sense of the present. We are interested in art happening in the everyday. We make artistic interventions in specific places.
We work very slowly. We explore different possibilities before deciding to go ahead. Sometimes we decide to do nothing.
We listen.
We work very slowly. We explore different possibilities before deciding to go ahead. Sometimes we decide to do nothing.
We listen.
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Through this paper we would like to articulate an approach to art and design practice that questions two fundamental assumptions * It is not framed by the creative practice of an individual artist delivering an authored artwork to a... more
Through this paper we would like to articulate an approach to art and design practice that questions two fundamental assumptions
* It is not framed by the creative practice of an individual artist delivering an authored artwork to a public or audience.
* It involves, in a creative process, people who do not necessarily or readily define themselves as creative in relation to their everyday life.
* It is not framed by the creative practice of an individual artist delivering an authored artwork to a public or audience.
* It involves, in a creative process, people who do not necessarily or readily define themselves as creative in relation to their everyday life.
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Reflection on Place of Origin, a 10 year artist-led landscape as art project.