The Ethics in (artistic) research working group aims to encourage professors, postdoc and PhD researchers and lecturer-researchers to explore, share and exchange with each other ethical issues and questions from their research practice in the arts or creative sector. To this end, the platform develops programmes and activities that contribute to knowledge and awareness of […]

ACKnowledge explores alternative forms of knowledge produced in the arts: in art libraries, audiovisual collections, artist collectives. How can we unlock and share knowledge embodied in these contemporary art practices?

In the research project The designing attitude we created a learning environment in which different people, involved in the care of people with dementia, created concepts and perspectives for redesigning the care environment. The learning environment consisted of a serial of settings that made this possible.

Artist-run spaces and platforms are becoming a form of contemporary art. They are not just mediators, but collective-participative works of art. With Rotterdam as an example, this project investigates the consequences of this development for the established system and definition of art, and its relatedness to gentrification and marginalized culture.

News outlets can significantly benefit from technological developments in automation that support the practise on the work floor. How is design and design research impactful in the context of the future newsroom?

The 4d News installation empowers journalist to bring more historical context into current discussions

Performing artists and athletes have to perform well in high pressure situations and face challenging physical demand, this makes them prone to health problems. The aim of PEARL is to prevent physical and mental health problems, to optimize health and to maximize performance.

Concerts of symphonic orchestras have the predictability of a ritual. Musicians play, the audience listens. A lot of people don’t find this ritual interesting anymore, concert attendance is dropping. How can we explain this decrease? And how can the audience participate with the orchestra in artistically relevant ways?