Art Thinking in higher education in design: The anachronistic object as a tool for understanding and visualizing the current socio-cultural context.
Principal Investigator: Gastón Uriel Lisak Zabotinsky
Abstract
The educational system and specifically higher education need a change that is in line with
the social context in which we are currently living. We see more and more the importance
of art and artistic techniques within the learning process for the creation of critical thinking
of the design university students and the general public.
The following research aims to investigate the use of Art Thinking in higher education in design,
analyzing different case studies as a teacher and artist, and proposing new methodological
ways in this regard as a researcher through the anachronistic object.
Through the use of mixed research, based on practice and action research, the aim is to
investigate the use of artistic techniques within the anachronistic object in order to address,
question and visualize current social issues. We promote critical thinking, intuition, curiosity,
prolonged research and ambiguity as vital practices in educational development.
On a daily basis, we interact and coexist with totally different objects. Some familiar and
others are totally strange. Of clearly different origins, materials, symbology and uses. However,
we rarely stop to think about the history, the message or what it represents. For this reason,
and to narrow down the research, the anachronistic object is used as a focus of study. Do
we have empathy for the objects we use and buy today? How important is the materiality,
its identity and its symbolism? Can we reflect and generate new narratives through the
recontextualization and transformation of these objects?
At the end of the research, we intend to contrast if the activity of Art Thinking and the use
of the anachronistic object, can serve to create knowledge and generate new narratives in
order to detect, analyze and transform the current social situation in which we live. Being
more aware and critical of our environment, improving our relationship with the objects we
own and use. Obtaining a series of tools that will serve both educators, students, designers
and artists in order to introduce it in the current higher education system.
Keywords: Design, Art Thinking, Anachronistic object, New narratives,
Higher Education.
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