The Post-Pandemic Studio is based on underlying work exploring an expanded potential for interdisciplinarity in art and design education, with a focus on the essential features of studio practice.

Building on prior research in the area of design theory and philosophy, design for art and design curriculum, and more, this theme is focussed on proposals for new conceptions of studio-based research. The spectrum of art and design fields have a practical, embedded basis for meaning-making at its core; they are  situated practices. Here we seek to expand  understandings of and develop new conceptions around studio-based research as knowledge-generating practice.

Framework for practice-based research 

Work on this theme involved an exploration of theory, method, and context in the positioning of studio-based research in art and design, leading to the development of a superdisciplinary framework for understanding studio-based practice, and concurrent concurrent experiments in pedagogical superdisciplinarity through the summer intensive format.

Projects developed within the Post-Pandemic Studio hybrid research and studio initiative explore the expansive possibilities for studio practice within pandemic conditions and in the age of social distance, with a focus on design practice and education.