With the research project ‘Terroir: Mapping Data Through Material in the Wild’, Annemarie Piscaer delves into the concept of “terroir” — a concept that is used in the culinary world to describe how the environment affects the characteristics of produce. In this research, the concept is applied to design education to explore how the physical environment influences materials and their narratives. By material mapping and situational learning Annemarie aims to develop innovative pedagogical principles that could be integrated into the curriculum at St. Joost School of Art & Design.
The project builds upon the previous research project ‘The Garden that Sees, Smells, and Hears,” further investigating the intersections of art, design, and environmental data. This previous project explored more-than-human perspectives in educational settings, and this new project extends those findings to a specific context. It emphasizes the role of material narratives in engaging students and the public to ecological contexts, and complex environmental data. And using mapping through material -visualizing data through design practices, in creating new understandings.
The primary objective of this research is to explore how mapping data through material could lead to new insights and knowledge forms. The aim is to develop and test pedagogical principles around this concept and incorporate them into the curriculum at St. Joost. This will be achieved through a series of workshops, expert meetings, and case studies.
Amongst these activities will be an expert meeting titled ‘Unlearning: gardening in education; in search for wildness,’ aiming to disseminate findings from “The garden that sees, smells, and hears” and gather further insights for the new project. For this meeting, specialists will be invited to discuss and contextualize the research findings within broader educational frameworks, helping to shape the direction of the ongoing research.
Ongoing research project (starting date March 2024)
‘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 and Design research group and tutor on the New Design and Attitudes study programme at St. Joost School of Art & 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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