Aesthetics of Transformation

The School for Transformation (Transformation Studies. Art x Science) is presenting a lecture series that explores the role of aesthetics in transdisciplinary research. Artistic strategies, just like transdisciplinary approaches, do not start from fixed onto-epistemic positions, but draw on a multiplicity of registers and perceptions to disrupt hegemonic knowledge regimes.

Likewise, both reject disciplinary boundaries in favor of transversal approaches, aiming to undo rigid distinctions between thinking and practice, embodied knowledge and scientific expertise. Based on a heterogenous mix of theoretical and practice-based interventions the lecture series asks: 

To what extent can artistic strategies be transferred to other contexts? And is that indeed desirable, given the situated, open-ended, and speculative nature of arts-based research? Where do we need to insist on the autonomy of aesthetic practice to stay clear from the demands of transferability, valorisation and impact?

In this spirit the series assembles a plurality of voices, case studies and theoretical perspectives, to explore what artistic strategies and aesthetics bring to the field of transdisciplinary research.

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