The creative arts and design academies are in constant transition. Globally, frameworks and metrics have moved towards advocacy — i.e. acknowledging design and creative practice’s significance across social, cultural and educational areas of impact. Some of these transformations in how we design techniques, translation and knowledge transmission are being taken up by research councils — especially in the UK, Canada and Australia.
The Creative Arts & Design (CAD) network seeks to coalesce and respond to the various ways in which national and international frameworks are being used to articulate the value of the creative arts and design (CAD) — especially around social and cultural impact. As two of the hardest things to “measure” social and cultural impact are often key to CAD approaches — the ways in which industry codesign and engagement starts at the beginning of a project, the ways methods are borrowed from social science and adapted in responsive ways (i.e. creative practice ethnographies), the ways in which pathways and modes for implementation are co-futured into the research design in an iterative way.
We are at a crucial time for reflection and seeing how we might move forward productively to design critical techniques, modes of translations and knowledge transmissions that acknowledge and enhance the particular ways in which CAD areas can co-future impactful research. There is a need to coalesce the different approaches and think about what is working, what isn’t, and what is missing.
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