The course is designed for students in the final year of the master's program. It is taught in a seminar format, held monthly in 120-minute blocks (15/10, 12/11, 10/12). Throughout the course, students will become familiar with the specifics of creative and artistic research in the context of their fields of study, and they will learn the basics of working with scholarly literature and the principles of proper academic text construction, both in terms of form and content. The exercises include practical demonstrations of working with both textual and visual sources, methodologies for writing different types of texts and their interconnections and practicing the defense of their work.
During the course, under professional guidance, students will gradually shape and refine a topic that will eventually culminate in their master's thesis. The format of a regularly recurring, extended seminar that progressively expands theoretical and practical work methods guides students toward mastering systematic work on long-term projects. It prepares them for writing and submitting the written part of their master's thesis in the following semester. Regular presentations of students' progress help to refine their rhetorical skills and foster the ability to clearly, coherently, and succinctly articulate the ideas and conclusions of their research.
Mutual dialogue between students from different studios and their confrontation is intended to enrich the participants with insights and stimuli from fields that may have been unfamiliar to them, thus opening up the possibility of a transdisciplinary approach to research. The individual topics of the seminar are framed by questions whose answers are critical to the completion of the final master's thesis.
Recommended Literature
Barrett, Estelle, Bolt, Barbara (eds.), Practice as Research. Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry, I.B.Tauris: 2009
Borgdorff, Henk, Peters, Peter, Pinch, Trevor (eds.), Dialogues Between Artistic Research and Science and Technology Studies, Routledge: 2020
de Assis, Paolo, Schwab, Michael, Futures of the Contemporary: Contemporaneity, Untimeliness, and Artistic Research, Leuven University Press: 2019
Eco, Umberto, How to Write a Thesis, The MIT Press: 2015
Gerard, Philip, The Art of Creative Research, University of Chicago Press: 2017
Leavy, Patricia, Method Meets Art. Art-Based Research Practice, The Guilford Press: 2020
Leavy, Patricia, Research Design. Quantitative, Qualitative, Mixed Methods, Arts-Based, and Community-Based Participatory Research Approaches, The Guilford Press: 2017
Koskinen, Ilpo, et al., Design Research Through Practice. From the Lab, Field, and Showroom, Morgan Kaufmann: 2011
Macleod, Katy, Holdridge, Lin (eds.), Thinking Through Art. Reflections on Art as Research, Routledge: 2005
Manzini, Ezio, Design, When Everybody Designs: An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation, The MIT Press: 2015
Smith, Hazel, Dean, Roger, Practice-Led Research, Research-Led Practice in the Creative Arts, Edinburgh University Press: 2009
- Učitel: Michal Vaníček