Making Sense • research programme timeline and related publications

2007 October
Invited journal paper for interactiveDiscourse – International On-line Journal of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education,
Vol. 1 Issue 1:

Gray, C. and Burnett, G. (2007)
Making Sense: ‘Material thinking’ and ‘materializing pedagogies’

ISSN: 1756-3445
www.interactivediscourse.com

2008 July - August
First tightly structured collaborative project to explore
‘what knowledge could be gained through making’,
conceived and experienced by Gray and Burnett using
four of the eight categories from ARP database (Art as
Random Process, Watson, 1992) to analyse existing
objects and generate unfamiliar stimuli for the making experience.

2008 September
Refereed conference paper on first project presented at ‘Crafticulation and Education' International Conference
of Craft Science and Craft Education, University of
Helsinki, Finland, subsequently published:

Gray, C. and Burnett, G. (2009)
Making Sense: an exploration of ways of knowing generated through practice and reflection in craft

Helsinki University Press
ISBN: 978-952-10-5579-9 (PDF version of proceedings)
https://dspace.it.helsinki.fi/manakin/handle/
10224/4810

Click here to access PowerPoint presentation
(to be viewed in conjunction with the paper
(available as a PDF)

The paper included a proposal for a student version of
the project. An A3 double sided poster was also created
as a hand out for the conference (click here for front side
of poster, click here for back of poster). NB These are high resolution PDFs - please be patient while downloading.

The web site - www.makingsenseresearch.org - was
initiated.

2008 December
A version of the Making Sense project was experienced
by thirteen pre-final year honours Three Dimensional
Design students at Gray's School of Art (RGU, Aberdeen).
They used chance to randomly select from and respond
to: place, quantity, substance and method categories
within the ARP database. Students were partenered for collaborative opportunities and verbally presented their outcomes and reflection in pairs.

2009 February
Invited presentation (Burnett and Gray) on Methodology and Methods in Practice-led Research, North-East Scotland Visual Research Training Network (Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of
Dundee and Gray’s School of Art, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen). Doctoral research training funded
by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council.

2009 March
‘Crafticulation and Education' paper given for an invited
public lecture as part of Carole Gray's Mellon Fellowship, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town,
South Africa.

2009 April
‘Crafticulation and Education' paper delivered by Gray for
the BA New Media Art research methodology module, University of Liepaja, Latvia.

2009 October
Evolved Making Sense project experienced by thirteen
pre-final year design students using ARP principles of
chance and random selection to respond to a sound, an
image, an object and the method option from ARP
database. Each student gave a short PowerPoint
presenting their 'ingredients', making process, outcome
and reflection. An evaluation method was trialled using
a six pointed star diagram employing a 1- 6 number scale.

2009 November
Making Sense: Works by students of Experimental Projects - exhibited at the George Paton Gallery,
Melbourne University - was a response to the research
from a different cultural and pedagogic perspective
initiated by the Australian artist and researcher
Barbara Bolt, using the ‘Crafticulation’ paper as a key reference. The resulting work used all eight ARP categories
as stimili but without using the actual ARP database.
http://union.unimelb.edu.au/georgepaton/archive
Click here for a PDF showing the students' work.

2010 January - February
Arts and Healthcare practitioner-researchers brought
together to form an interdisciplinary research team to
explore the concept of 'wellbeing' from multiple
perspectives.

2010 March
Refereed paper for the QAA's 'Research-Teaching
Linkages to enhance graduate attributes in Creative and Cultural Practice', Enhancement Themes‘ summarising
the Making Sense Research programme to date, in
particular highlighting the graduate attributes as a result
of student participation in the research programme.

Burnett, G., Watson, A. and Gray, C. (2010)
Making Sense: a materialist pedagogy
http://www.enhancementthemes.ac.uk/
themes/ResearchTeaching/outcomes.asp

2010 April
Making Sense of Wellbeing - creative intervention workshop
Arts and Healthcare practitioner-researchers worked collaboratively to experience a tightly structured evolved version of the Making Sense project.

2010 May
Invited poster on the Making Sense Research programme
for the launch of the IDEAS Research Institute (RGU), Aberdeen Art Gallery. Download poster (high resolution
PDF - please be patient while downloading).

2010 August - December
Web site updating.

2011 January - February
DVD documentation of Making Sense of Wellbeing -
creative intervention workshop.

2011 March
New Arts and Health interdisciplinary student learning
project - craft, sculpture, occupational therapy.

2011 April - May
Web site update.

2011 September
Making Sense: reflections on creative research methods found within practice-led inquiry. Refereed submission in DVD format for 2nd International Visual Research Methods Conference, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
www.visualmethods.org

Invited book chapter Making Sense: exploring materialist pedagogies for 'Material Inventions: Applying Creative Research' - a follow up volume to Barrett E. and Bolt B (eds.) 'Practice as Research Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry' 2007, IB Tauris