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Creative Research Journal
Transart PhD Program



I knew little what I was undertaking, and perhaps it was better not to have realized too many difficulties that would bar the way...As it was, I set to work, brave in the strength of ignorance of what was before me.

- Mary Louise McLaughlin, potter (1847-1932)



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7 A 24 A-B PROJECTS SHARD I 

First raku firing at the end of March. Trip to New Brighton to visit Terry and see UK spring into bloom before surgery May 7. First “Shards” session with Karl Burkheimer through A-B Projects. 

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The Rodina, Design Museum London, 2019


30-31 M 24 INTENSIVE

PhD March Session
COMMUNICATION DESIGN AS PERFORMATIVE WORLD-MAKING

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2nd week of March, the 150 with Lulu
15 M 24 JOURNAL

Misogyny and man-ness and misunderstanding, oh my.
With some Mary Poppins for good measure.

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capture/nature (1) summer 2023
28 F 24 JOURNAL

Advisory meeting with Tracey (2). Catch-up on percolations for revised PAF.  Research poetry, arts-based qualitative data-analysis - exciting to apply to Capture \ Nature project.

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18 F 24 JOURNAL

Spore Space Gallery, Ojai
Lamp Show! July 2, 2023
Description of project & reflection.

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05 F 24 JOURNAL

Bed Island Day XXX. “Monster Storm.” Things I’ve made since I got the diagnosis, got the (first) surgery, got home from the mental and physical breakdown which was my holiday trip, and started getting out of bed, or off the chair.

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30-31 M 24
INTENSIVE

The Rodina, Design Museum London 2019 
The Rodina, Design Museum London 2019 
Alex Grunenfelder

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MARCH SESSION: https://www.transartinstitute.org/intensives-202324-phd-session-31

ZOOM LINKS: https://www.transartinstitute.org/tt-central-sessions

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SATURDAY, 30 MARCH 2024

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15:00 - 16:00 UTC
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PUBLIC TALK - WICKED WORLDING 
THE RODINA

16:00 - 19:00 UTC
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WORKSHOP - ON COMMUNICATION DESIGN AS PERFORMATIVE WORLD-MAKING
THE RODINA

SUNDAY, 31 MARCH 2024

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17:30 - 19:30 UTC
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WORKSHOP - AIR TASTING
ALEX GRÜNENFELDE


PUBLIC TALK - WICKED WORLDING
WITH THE RODINAWhat are our roles, responsibilities, and capacities as situated world-makers? How can we design situations and environments that encourage activity and participation leading toward the transformation in a viewer or a social context? During this talk, Amsterdam-based designer Tereza Ruller (The Rodina) tries to answer these questions by introducing a range of methods and approaches –including performativity, embodiment, and processuality. These techniques allow designers to go beyond the traditional boundaries of graphic design and embrace inclusivity, challenge norms, resist power structures, and convey previously marginalized stories. Undoubtedly, Wicked Worlding positions communication design as a performative world-making practice!

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PHD WORKSHOP - ON COMMUNICATION DESIGN AS PERFORMATIVE WORLD-MAKING 
WITH THE RODINA

This workshop will provide a theoretical framework and practical exercises for using performance methods in design. By utilizing a range of techniques and approaches, including performativity, embodiment, and processuality, we will examine how the world is created and recreated. Feeling the urgency to address the current environmental challenges, we will focus on what are our roles, responsibilities, and capacities as situated world-makers. We will deepen the understanding of designers' embeddedness within the material world.

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PHD WORKSHOP - AIR TASTING
WITH ALEX GRÜNENFELDER

Air Tasting is a practice of studying, presenting and facilitating sensory experiences of the air. The Air Tasting sensory workshop teaches the fundamentals of the Air Tasting method of sensory analysis and its expanded mode of multisensory tasting, with the goal of inspiring an embodied awareness of the air as our shared habitat. 

Air Tasting provides an opportunity to explore how we use our senses, starting from the very basic activity of simply observing one’s sensation of the air. Since 2008, Alex Grünenfelder has been presenting workshops where he introduces people to the tasting method, and they explore the aromas and atmospheric phenomena of particular places. This exercise of directed visual, haptic and olfactory perception employs a combination of observation, writing and discussion to engage people in an embodied participatory exploration of the atmosphere as a speculative object. 

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