Tacit Knowledge Workshops
Tacit Knowledge Workshops
Project Team: Cecilia De Marinis, Dorotea Ottaviani, Alice Buoli
Year: 2016
Places and Institutions: Glasgow School of Art (UK), PhD by Design Conference - Brighton (UK), RMIT Europe, Barcelona (SP) - KU Leuven, Ghent (BE) - Milano Design Film Festival (IT) - University of Westminster, London (UK)
The premise of Creative Practice Research is to make explicit knowledge that is per se tacit in Creative Practice. Such Tacit Knowledge is a flexible and dynamic realm of knowledge that is hard to grasp, as it is something hidden, invisible to the eye of the practitioner but exists within their practice and research. It is something that lives at the level of the subconscious, an unspoken, silent, and subjective form of knowledge, embedded in practice. Tacit knowledge could be described as intuitive and heuristic thinking related to the operational and experiential aspects of the practice. It could be also defined as the mental space of perception and memory, built through our spatial intelligence. This series of workshops have been the occasions to stir new reflections about tacit knowledge in Creative Practice research among the PhD candidates and creative practitioners, allowing them to interrogate their daily practice to surface some of this embedded knowledge.
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The research leading to these results has received funding from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007- 2013/ under REA grant agreement n° 317325. ADAPT-r ITN Project
