We are delighted to share that researcher Annemarie Piscaer is accepted as a PhD candidate of the Doctoral Program of the Inter-Actions Research Unit at KU Leuven, LUCA School of Arts
, in Genk, under the guidance of Dr. Kristof Vrancken (Promotor), Dr. Sandy Claes (Co-Promotor), and Dr. Michel van Dartel (Co-Promotor, Professor at the Situated Art, Design, and Technology Group).
Her research Aerial and Airing, a Situated Design Approach: Mapping Environmental Data through Material will address the urgent and complex issue of mapping environmental data, particularly through the lens of ‘Air’. The research challenges conventional approaches to data representation by integrating principles of situated knowledges, pedagogy and materiality into mapping practices. This situated approach is crucial in moving beyond traditional, hierarchical, and often detached methods of data visualization towards more inclusive and participatory frameworks.
‘Humans are atmospheric beings, particles, dust, in intimate cycles of exchange, actors with an incredible force.’
‘We need to become attuned actors with a deeper understanding of all the other particles.’
Annemarie Piscaer is a researcher in the Situated Art, Design and Technology research group, tutor on the New Design & Attitudes study programme at St. Joost School of Art & Design, and PhD candidate in the Doctoral Program at KU Leuven.
The research group Situated Art, Design and Technology (SADT) focuses on the societal embedding and embodiment of knowledge production that art and design research enables. The conducted research contributes to a deeper understanding of technological developments and their impact on people, society, and the environment, and to the development of situated approaches in the creative sector and beyond. In doing so, it advances a wider acknowledgement of artistic and design research as a mode of knowledge production, one that is grounded in creativity and critical imagination as a way of generating insight into, and intervening in, societal transitions driven by technology.
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