To plant: to bring theoretical, live and creative reflexive practices to studies of groups, organisations and institutions.
To be planted: research that grows within living organisations, through people, ideas and their meetings.
To be a plant: researching in the liminal space between inside and outside, covert or overt; navigating and storytelling against/towards academic/practice positions.
Plant is a network to support embedded research within art, architectural and civic organisations. We investigate the creative spaces, objects, and practices surrounding, and produced through, embedded research projects.
This site is a collection of embedded research PROJECTS and associated RESOURCES.
Plant has been established to make the diversity of collaborative hosted relations within embedded research projects visible and explore connections between peer practices. The network aims to critically reflect on the different embedded research positions which have been adopted in relation to non-academic host organisations. With this in mind, a LEXICON of embedded research has started to emerge, allowing projects to be categorised by relationships, methods, collaborators, co-productions, and spaces.
Our working definition of embedded research︎︎︎
List of members and affiliations︎︎︎
To be planted: research that grows within living organisations, through people, ideas and their meetings.
To be a plant: researching in the liminal space between inside and outside, covert or overt; navigating and storytelling against/towards academic/practice positions.
Plant is a network to support embedded research within art, architectural and civic organisations. We investigate the creative spaces, objects, and practices surrounding, and produced through, embedded research projects.
This site is a collection of embedded research PROJECTS and associated RESOURCES.
Plant has been established to make the diversity of collaborative hosted relations within embedded research projects visible and explore connections between peer practices. The network aims to critically reflect on the different embedded research positions which have been adopted in relation to non-academic host organisations. With this in mind, a LEXICON of embedded research has started to emerge, allowing projects to be categorised by relationships, methods, collaborators, co-productions, and spaces.
Our working definition of embedded research︎︎︎
List of members and affiliations︎︎︎
Next Meeting:
TBCThe network is shaped and organised through open meetings. All welcome.
Online via Zoom—contact us for the link.
For these meeting we usually pick a short reading/ resource/ provocation relating to embedded research as a prompt for conversation.
Last month: ‘From Practitioner to Practitioner-Researcher’ in Robin Nelson, Practice as Research in the Arts: Principles, Protocols, Pedagogies, Resistances (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
Here is a list of previous and forthcoming selected prompts. We often meet on the last Tues of the month. Let us know if you would like to attend but are unable to make this day/time.A
LEXICON
Methods
archival
creative writing
curatorial
ethnography
mapping
narrative inquiry
participant-observation
practice-based
public programming
xeno-
archival
creative writing
curatorial
ethnography
mapping
narrative inquiry
participant-observation
practice-based
public programming
xeno-
The Personal Library
of Barbara Hepworth: A Case Study in the Curation and Interpretation of
Artists’ Libraries
Keywords: quasi-staff member, archival, curatorial, public programming, exhibitions, public programming, research workshops, interpretation, Wakefield, library, gallery
Artists’
libraries are generally an understudied area of the legacy of an artist and
have an uncertain status as to both value and use. Taking the case study of the
personal library of the sculptor Barbara Hepworth, formerly housed at The
Hepworth Wakefield, this thesis combines archival research with a curatorial
intervention to demonstrate the value of such traditionally overlooked areas of
knowledge in the study of both Hepworth’s work, and that of artists more widely.