Plymouth College of Art supports and promotes research and scholarly activity that furthers the institutional mission to advance the College as a progressive and professionally active learning community. The College has developed (and continues to evolve) a research philosophy that reflects its ethos as a small specialist and independent art school and which supports its higher education identity as manifested through the professional art and design focus of its academic portfolio. This approach views research in art and design as forming an integral part of the creative process and inclusive of activities whose outputs can - as witnessed in the listing below - consist of artefacts, audio constructions, creative writing forms, exhibitions, screening festivals, workshops, symposia and conferences, and the production of ephemeral and time-based performances and related phenomenon. In this respect the College recognises that the work of the ‘artist’ or ‘designer’ frequently incorporates a practice-based research component which, whilst needing to be suitably articulated, nonetheless has a strong relationship with (and often overlaps) professional and pedagogic practices. Thus the College seeks to be sensitive to the ways in which new knowledge, understanding and improved insights in art and design are often deeply entangled in the practice-based routines and embodied performances frequently (if not typically) manifested in professional and teaching practices. We therefore seek to judiciously encourage and develop links between research and professional practice, and research and pedagogy. Read More