Methods lens-based

The Reading, Writing, and Research Methodologies Seminar is tailored towards (further) developing research methods within the first year of this master. By establishing a solid foundation of research skills, it will eventually prepare students for their Graduate research in the second year. Through reading core theoretical texts, they will establish a common vocabulary and set of references to work from. They will learn the practice of classic ‘essayistic methodologies’, including close reading, annotation, description and notation, students learn to survey a body of literature, filter what is relevant to their research and create comparative pieces of analysis. The seminar helps students to establish methodical drafting processes for their texts, where they can develop ideas further and structure their use of notes and references. The course takes as axiomatic that the perceived division between ‘practice’ and ‘theory’ is essentially an illusion.

Curriculum: The seminar will involve:

(a.) Identifying the object of your research: description and analysis of your work

(b.) Contextualizing your work through description and reflection on contemporary and historical practices.

(c.) Identify research material key to your practice.

(d.) Synopsis and annotation of key texts

(e.) Writing machines: creating methods for group and individual writing.

Throughout, there will be an emphasis on working collectively, whether in a larger discussion group or in smaller reading and writing groups.

Editing Reading, Writing & Research Methodologies - handbook information

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Outcome of the seminar (trimester three)

The specific outcome for the RW&RM seminar of 2021-22 will be a 1500 word text which reflects on your own practice and situates your work in relation to a broader artistic and cultural context. The various texts produced within the RW&RM seminar will serve as source material for your text on practice. In common with all modules on the course RW&RM serves to support your self-directed research. Therefore, the text on practice will inform your Self-Evaluation at the end of the third trimester and provide the basis for your Graduate Project Proposal that you will produce in the fourth trimester.

Texts on Practice 2022

Text on Practice outline 2019-2020

Session one

Session One

TODAY' S OUTCOME: descriptions of work

11:00am -12pm

Intro Natasha and Steve:

General intro to the methods sessions how they fit into the two year programme and outline of the day.

Outline of today's session.

12:00-13:00

Describe three of your works/ projects

For each work describe

What (200 words max)

How (200 words max)

Why (200 words max)

600 word description of three works = 1800 words (max)

13:00

LUNCH

14:00

Meet as a group

For groups of three

Read each other's texts

Readers: give feedback (what were you given to understand by the text? how can it be improved to make it clearer?).

Spend no more than 10 MINUTES giving feedback on each text

Writer: REMAIN SILENT, do not try to defend the text, concentrate on what the text is actually communicating to your readers.

writer: Make notes of your reader's comments

14:30

Make changes to your draft. (Keep original version below edited version)

UPLOAD ON TO THIS PAD

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Methods28LB

15:00

Choose another piece of work and repeat exercise

What (200 words max)

How (200 words max)

Why (200 words max)

15:30

Meet in groups of three

Read each other's texts

Readers: give feedback (what were you given to understand by the text? how can it be improved to make it clearer?).

Spend no more than 10 MINUTES giving feedback on each text

Writer: REMAIN SILENT, do not try to defend the text, concentrate on what the text is actually communicating to your readers.

16:00

Make changes to your draft. (Keep original version below edited version) UPLOAD ON THE PAD

16:30

Round up and discuss

Session two

Session Two: Reviewing self-directed research

Sesion two

OUTCOME:

1) interview

2) edits to current and previous texts

3) texts up on wiki page.

TODAY'S AGENDA

11:00 Steve intro and group discussion

11:00-11:20 I would like to talk to you about making a space for collective reading and annotation, do you need this? What is the best way to organise it?

Here is a sketch of possible structure of these groups: https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Group_Reading_and_Annotation_Sessions

11:20-11:30 Organising our methods wiki pages

Last session's pad (what, how, why)

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Methods28LB

11:30 today's workshop

Interviewing each other: a interviews b; b interviews a

11:30 work on this pad: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/LBLensBasedSeshTwo22

Interview about your self-directed research. (Your current work).

Stage 1

30 mins:

a interviews b

a asks:

What are you making?

Why are you making it?

How does it relate to other things you have done?

How is it different to other things you have done?

What are the most significant choices have you made recently?

Throughout this exchange a takes notes on the pad

Stage 2

30 mins:

b interviews a What are you making?

Why are you making it?

Does to relate to other things you have done?

How is it different to other things you have done?

What are the most significant choices have you made recently?

Throughout this exchange b takes notes on the pad or makes a 'speech to text' recording of the exchange.

Stage 3

60 mins

A HANDS THE TEXT OVER TO B and B EDITS THE TEXT A HAS STARTED; elaborating on the points they have made in the interview

13:00 LUNCH

14:00

Stage 4:

14:00-15:30

1) Continue to edit today's text

2) return to groups of 2 (a & b).

Read each other's text;

a) ask questions about it

b) answers those questions in the text

15:30 review progress as a group.

Check list:

Make wiki page

upload text from session one

upload texts from session two

Make space for all aspects of the course = methods; reading and writing; thematic projects; notes; toolbox sessions &c. have a section, so your page looks something like this: