Research requires us to think differently, and thinking differently requires creativity. Creative practice research (CPR) makes this explicit, using art, design, performance and media as both the research method and the outcome, both the beginning and the end.
‘Confluence’ is an opportunity to experience and explore this landscape. Hosted at Kent in partnership with the Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries (iCCi), and celebrating the launch of the University’s new Centre for Creative and Practice Research (CCPR), ‘Confluence’ marks the coming together of Kent and Greenwich’s CPR, but also the wider engagement with the Eastern Arc universities.
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The programme for the day is given below. Throughout the day there will be a series of parallel sessions which explore different elements of creative research practice; a full outline of each session will be available on the day for you to make the decision as to which sessions to attend.
Jarman Studio 1
Jarman Studio 2
10:00 – 10:25
Introduction and opening provocations
(Jeremy Scott and Nicola Shaughnessy)
5 minutes to move rooms
10:30 – 11:00
‘Hulked: the creative heritage of the Thames Estuary’ (talk and films)
Jeremy Scott
‘Is Creative Writing Research?’ (talk)
Thomas Karshan
5 minutes to move rooms
11:05 – 11:35
‘Documentary: Putchan, Shankar and Udayakumar Demonstrate how the Kota(r) Make the Kol’(film)
Daniel Jebakumar
‘Performing International Plays’ (talk)
Margherita Laera
11:35 – 12:00
Break (refreshments in Jarman Foyer)
12:00 – 12:40
‘Relational Arts Work and Burnout: creative practice versus emotional labour in medicine/community/education’ (talk and film)
Roanna Mitchell
5 minutes to move rooms
12:45 – 13:00
‘Writing and Walking the Environment’ (talk and performance)
Lavinia Brydon and Caroline Millar
‘Meanders in a Line’ (sound installation)
Katherine Peddie
13:00 – 13:40
Lunch (Jarman Foyer)
13:40 – 14:25
‘Transgender Storytellers and Folktales in Community Activism’ (workshop/performance)
Gabriel Baxter-Baker
‘Attending to Play: co-producing spatial evidence for playful cities’ (workshop)
Walter Stabb
5 minutes to move rooms
14:30 – 15:30
‘Somatic interaction design: using body mapping in practice-based research’ (workshop)
Rocio von Jungenfeld
‘Ecologising the University’
Simon Bowes
5 minutes to move rooms
15:35 – 15:55
‘Islands’ (talk and film)
Maurizio Cinquegrani
‘Film as Practice Research’ (workshop and talk)
Fan Xia
15:55 – 16:15
Break
16:15 – 17:15
‘Synthesque Practice? AI and Creativity’ (panel discussion)
Jim Ang, Annette Foster, Lorna Richardson
17:30
Wine reception
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The event is free, but places are strictly limited to just 60 participants. To register, click here and provide some simple details (~1 minute).
For those coming from the other EARC universities, transport may be available (depending on numbers) free of charge. This will be provided on a first come, first served basis. We will contact you once you have registered to give you this option.
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For more information on the day, contact e.oatley@kent.ac.uk