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Tara Karpinski starts with Professional Doctorate on Design for Collective Decision Making

We are excited to announce that Tara Karpinski will be conducting her research project on Design for Collective Decision Making for CARADT as a Professional Doctorate Arts + Creativearrow candidate. The Professional Doctorate program, which sits between academia and professional practice, allows candidates to conduct research that directly contributes to the development of their professional field. In her research, Tara focuses on on designing interfaces for emerging collective decision making processes — a critical area as digital technologies and democratic processes become ever more intertwined.

 

The Professional Doctorate (PD)arrow is a unique research trajectory aimed at experienced professionals seeking to make a substantial impact in their industry through research. Unlike the primarily academic traditional PhD, the PD emphasizes applied research that leads to tangible innovations in practice. The program is divided into seven research domains. For the Arts + Creative research domainarrow, Tara explores how collective decision making can be designed and implemented in ways that are transparent, equitable, and inclusive. Her research project builds on her own experiences working as part of a collective, and research conducted with other commons communities.

 

Design for Collective Decision Making will involve case studies with different partners, including the Community Land Trust H-buurt, arrowtogether with whom she prototyped an interface for a means of decision-making called quadratic voting. Tara will continue to collaborate closely with a number of diverse collectives and other stakeholders. This work is expected to contribute significantly to both the academic discourse on collective decision making and the practical development of new interfaces and methods.

‘My practice is situated in between different actors, in this shape-shifting middle many things can happen.’

Tara Karpinski is a designer, researcher and educator working in the realm of social practice. She holds a BA in photography and art history from the Savannah College of Art & Design (USA), and an MA from the Sandberg Instituut (NL). Her Master studies were funded by a Netherland-America Foundation grant.

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Research Group: Situated Art and Design

Living in cities developed around data and acting within the inscrutable structure of our techno-society demands art and design that can help understand how we relate to these rapidly changing surroundings and to reflect on that relationship. The research group Situated Art and Design responds to this exigency by fostering a situated turn in art and design through a diverse portfolio of interdisciplinary research projects in partnership with academic and cultural partners, as well as with government and industry.

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