Prof Cert Creative Approaches to Archives
The Professional Certificate in Creative Approaches to Archives is one of several of programmes offered by School of Visual Culture at NCAD to suitably qualified research students registered in any of the four schools at NCAD and to learners via the Creative Futures Academy (CFA). This programme aims to offer opportunities to engage with a variety of archiving tools and practices that have grown in importance in art, design and visual culture research since the 1980s and remain a matter of considerable interest and intellectual energy.
Drawing on new thinking and methods in the digital humanities, archival practice as well as related fields such as oral history, participants in this module will develop a critical perspective on the interests and concerns which have shaped archives. What defines an archive? What makes something worth archiving? What effects does classification have on understanding? What effects has digitisation have on the organisation and distribution of knowledge? What is the relationship of the archive to history and memory? And what claims do archives make on the future? And what kind of inexistent archives are needed?
Participants will examine how contemporary artists and designers have made significant creative use of existing archives in artistic research and exhibition practices, or by organising documents and records of various (often, through self-archiving practices).
By undertaking this programme, participants will be encouraged to think through the ways different research tools and sources shape knowledge and practice, developing skills in criticality and responsibility in relation to research.
The programme aims to:
- provide participants with opportunities to understand current archiving practices and issues in relation to art and design.
- explore the ways in which different artists and designers have made effective and creative uses of archival material in their research practice.
- provide an opportunity for participants to explore how their practice might make use of archives of various kinds, including material and digital archives.
Programme Specification and Module Descriptor
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The programme is made up of one module: PGCFAV1008 Creative Approaches to Archives.