The Why Project Nagoya 2022
The Why Project Nagoya 2022
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Nagoya UNESCO City of Design Gallery, The Cotton Building, NagoyaOpen access
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2022-11-18End date
2022-11-20Research statement
Background The Why Project seeks to investigate methods of processing and generating creative outcomes in response to the provocation of Why? and the duality of uncertainty and curiosity this simple question brings. The research forms the framework for cross-disciplinary creative practitioners to participate through their own response to the provocation through a collaborative, mixed method approach, using a combination of art therapy, design activism, auto-ethnography and design anthropology. This research investigates the gap of a combined methodological approach in art and design practice-led research that responds to trauma. Contribution The Why Project Nagoya 2022 began as a method of coping with loss and trauma following insecurities experienced throughout and after the COVID19 lockdowns by Maria Bates through creating the letters “WHY” from geometric shapes. Combined with Dr Lienors Torre’s approach to materiality of lens and shifting dualities, it brings together observational responses of time, perspective and the urban industrial landscape of Nagoya. The works reflect on the seemingly invisible streetscapes of Nagoya that were once bustling with energy, enhanced at night by subtle warm lighting and shadows, contrasted with self-reflection of our own ageing skin. Significance The Nagoya 2022 iteration of the Why Project is a collaborative exhibition between Maria Bates and Lienors Torre, by invitation at the Nagoya UNESCO City of Design Gallery at The Cotton Building, Nagoya from 18-20 November 2023, displaying works that question the notion of beauty through a material and reflective lens. The significance of this research in producing new knowledge is in its ever-evolving continuum of collaborative work surrounding uncertainty and curiosity using a unique mixed method approach.Publication classification
JO4 Original Creative Works – OtherScale
NTRO MinorEvent
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