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Session Chair: Dr. Amic Garfield Ho, Hong Kong Metropolitan University
Location:Studio 2
Presentations
Research Performance in UK Art and Design Subject: A Bibliometric Analysis of Outputs from the REF 2021
Xudong Cai, Emelia Delaney, Wei Liu
King's College London, United Kingdom
The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is the UK's official system for assessing the quality of research in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). This study aims to analyse the current state of research through journal articles data in the art and design discipline in REF 2021.
This study used descriptive analysis to present key facts of 1983 journal articles from REF 2021 database. This research also uses CiteSpace and VOSviewer tools for further bibliometric analysis of 1587 articles obtained from Web of Science and Scopus. It focuses on the number of articles per year, institutional analysis, source journals, keyword clustering networks, and highly cited journals and articles.
The key findings show that: (i) The Art and Design subject is below the REF 2021 average in terms of output quality and overall quality; (ii) There is a clear trend towards interdisciplinary research in the art and design disciplines; (iii) Loughborough University has published the most articles, and Oxford University has the highest output quality; (iv) The top 10 highly cited journals and articles are all research in design and other interdisciplinary fields, and there is no research in the field of art.
It is 2030, nobody owns anything except the Davos oligarchy - they possess and control everything.
Erik Hansen-Hansen
Royal Danish Academy - Architecture, Design and Conservation, Denmark
‘Oppose 1984 in 2030: Keeping the UN Goals on an ethical path’ is a Critical Design and research project started by the author at the Royal Danish Academy - Architecture, Design and Conservation in Denmark.
The experimental project involves communication design (graphic design on t-shirt artefacts) combined with on-going research in the political economy of some sustainability issues. The project aims to criticize totalitarian tendencies being pursued by an oligarchic global system of corporate stakeholder capitalism who uses sustainability discourse to lead humanity towards a neo-serfdom.
Examples of control mechanisms promoted by entities like Rockefeller Foundation and World Economic Forum are programmable central bank digital (fiat and surveillance) currencies, personal carbon allowances, social credit points, and the destruction of small farming practices in order to create centralized controlled artificial food production.
The project aligns itself with the approach of Critical and Speculative Design in questioning conventional design norms. But the prototypes are not industrial design, instead the emphasis lies on communication design, where t-shirt artefacts featuring typography represent facets of sustainability and totalitarian issues.
This text presents the project, highlighting its theoretical and methodological underpinnings, its relationship to the fields of critical and speculative design, and the utilized design and working methods.
