A case study: Articulating embodied practice with poise

Robinson, T

A case study: Articulating embodied practice with poise

Robinson, T

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Citation:: EKSIG 2011: SkinDeep - Experiential Knowledge and Multi Sensory Communication - Proceedings of the International Conference 2011 of the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge, 2011
Issue Date:: 2011-12-01

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dc.contributor.author	Robinson, T https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0209-4771	en_US
dc.date.issued	2011-12-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	EKSIG 2011: SkinDeep - Experiential Knowledge and Multi Sensory Communication - Proceedings of the International Conference 2011 of the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge, 2011	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9780956416070	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19371
dc.description.abstract	In this paper I will examine the role artefacts play in the context of a practice-based research project. Alone artefacts would not constitute research but I will present a Case Study examining how a self-produced single artefact, named PULLEY SAC became a compelling artefact within my design practice. The study revolves around a first person account of the context in which the PULLEY SAC emerged within practice. I pay particular attention to the phenomena of noticing, whereby particular aspects of a current activity show up as significant against a background of ongoing creative practice and articulation, which draws out through reflective writing background aspects of the practice pertinent to the researcher. The study examines the way PULLEY SAC enabled me to articulate important aspects of creative practice by pointing to how the artefact is taken up in bodily engagement and how it emerged through practice. I will discuss practice as an embodied and receptive mode of experiencing that enabled me to be drawn into the contingencies of a making situation, extended it so to resolve it in a way that was consistent with my particular mode of creative practice. In the second part of the paper I extend the Case Study to examine creative practice in relation to the notion Poise developed by Samuel Todes. Here I argue the practitioner-researcher take up a location within practice rather than without in order to draw out significant aspects of skilled practice as a mode of receptivity encompassing both somatic awareness and artefactual engagement.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	EKSIG 2011: SkinDeep - Experiential Knowledge and Multi Sensory Communication - Proceedings of the International Conference 2011 of the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge	en_US
dc.title	A case study: Articulating embodied practice with poise	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
utslib.for	120306 Textile and Fashion Design	en_US
utslib.for	120301 Design History and Theory	en_US
dc.location.activity	Farnham Castle, United Kingdom	en_US
dc.location.activity	Cardiff, Wales
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Design
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US

Abstract:

In this paper I will examine the role artefacts play in the context of a practice-based research project. Alone artefacts would not constitute research but I will present a Case Study examining how a self-produced single artefact, named PULLEY SAC became a compelling artefact within my design practice. The study revolves around a first person account of the context in which the PULLEY SAC emerged within practice. I pay particular attention to the phenomena of noticing, whereby particular aspects of a current activity show up as significant against a background of ongoing creative practice and articulation, which draws out through reflective writing background aspects of the practice pertinent to the researcher. The study examines the way PULLEY SAC enabled me to articulate important aspects of creative practice by pointing to how the artefact is taken up in bodily engagement and how it emerged through practice. I will discuss practice as an embodied and receptive mode of experiencing that enabled me to be drawn into the contingencies of a making situation, extended it so to resolve it in a way that was consistent with my particular mode of creative practice. In the second part of the paper I extend the Case Study to examine creative practice in relation to the notion Poise developed by Samuel Todes. Here I argue the practitioner-researcher take up a location within practice rather than without in order to draw out significant aspects of skilled practice as a mode of receptivity encompassing both somatic awareness and artefactual engagement.

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