Faculty of Arts & Society
The Leeds School of Contemporary Art & Graphic Design
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Research Specialisms
The School is concerned with research across a diversity of activity in contemporary art and graphic design, indicated by the research expertise, scholarship and professional activity of its staff and the projects of its research students that can be seen on this site.
The School has identified as a particular research focus the theme of Innovatory modes of practice in the visual arts and visual communication. The research group associated with this focuses on contemporary innovations that emphasise immaterial, nomadic and socially interactive approaches to practice, challenging traditional conceptions of the workshop or studio as the primary productive base of practice in the visual arts and visual communication as well as questioning the place of the gallery or traditional print or film formats as the primary means of mediating such practice. Research within this theme is particularly supported by the School's Research Fellow in Contemporary Art, Peter Lewis, who has an extensive and international record of innovative curatorial practice and process- and event-based collaborations. Peter Lewis and Derek Horton have established a web-based journal of contemporary art and its research that has developed into a major online curation project, /seconds (www.slashseconds.org), which has an internationally significant and diverse editorial board of academics, curators and artists. New issues are published online quarterly.
Another research theme, Pedagogies and cultures of art and design incorporates staff from both LSCAGD and The Leeds School of Architecture Landscape and Design. It recognizes that given the development of new forms of art and design practice, there is a need to innovate models of pedagogy and contextual and cultural understanding. Its activities include research into the assessment of and development of curricula for creativity, the role of improvisation in art and design education, and the interaction and interdependence of manual and digital means of production.
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