Ways Of Working Workshop

This CNoS workshop in collaboration with the Biochemical Society and Newcastle University’s Institute for Creative Arts Practice presents an opportunity to address questions that are common to both artists and scientists - broader, ethical questions around ways of seeing, methods of working, and developing truly interdisciplinary practice. Whilst acknowledging that both practices are creative, the workshop will focus on ‘ways to practice’ that allow for time, space, error and specifically, what we can learn from questioning existing methods of working.
 
Often, workshops that bring together researchers in the arts and sciences focus on illustrating or interpreting science. CNoS aims to challenge this approach through finding ways in which, from a basis of common ground, the arts and sciences can learn from each other. With an ethos of open-ended experimentation, engaging in critical dialogue around common themes, we offer a workshop approach that is research-led and exploration driven rather than outcome driven. Through activities that focus on thinking and making strategies and film documentation of participant activities and discussions, workshop participants will develop communication techniques and form process-led methodologies that will help them to arrive at critical questions that can form the basis of longer-term projects.

In this workshop, you will:

 - Identify shared interests in common themes across art/science
 - Form collaborative cross-disciplinary pairs/groups
 - Develop process-led methodologies & communication/translation strategies
 - Identify critical questions for interdisciplinary research projects
 - Produce a 2-3 minute ‘taster’ film or presentation on your ideas

The workshop will be offered to a maximum of 20 participants. To attend, please complete the questionnaire below.