Application deadline: January 20, 2025
LM Ericssons väg 14
SE-126 27 Stockholm
Sweden
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Doctoral student in Artist Practice in Visual, Applied and Spatial Arts—Design. Application deadline: January 20, 2025
Are you interested in exploring how design can contribute to meeting the changes brought about by the climate crisis?
This doctoral position at Konstfack, Stockholm, is part of the Knowledge Foundation’s investment in Jubilee Doctoral Students, which aims to increase doctoral students with specific expertise in collaboration. It is therefore expected that the doctoral students’ research projects will be carried out in collaboration with external partners from business and/or other organisations.
The doctoral education in the subject of Artistic Practice in Visual, Applied and Spatial Arts is given on artistic grounds and leads to a Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Artistic Practice in Visual, Applied and Spatial Arts.
How can artefacts enable relationships with other-than-human life forms in a way that promote biological diversity and thus sustainable transitions? What alternative material cultures can be developed to meet local needs in the wake of the climate crisis? How can aesthetic choices in design work enable social and cultural norms that contribute to sustainability?
In artistic research, questions are tested, shaped and communicated through doing, i.e., through the practical and theoretical work undertaken within the researchers’ own artistic practice. Research in the field of visual, applied and spatial arts implies that methods, materials and ideas are explored within a defined subject. For example, the purpose of the research may be in-depth critical thinking, innovation, or knowledge production within the artistic field. In the subject Artistic Practice in Visual, Applied and Spatial Arts, it is crucial that the practitioner reflects upon the design process and contextualises their work.
Konstfack’s specialised material workshops, exhibition spaces, and library, constitute a unique environment, creating the conditions to unite the practices of creating and producing. The research environment is bound together and developed through collegial research forums where research strategies and content are discussed, as well as through research seminars, and the annual Research Week where doctoral students, researchers/teachers, and students at Konstfack participate together with invited guests. Read more and apply here.
Konstfack is Sweden’s largest university for arts, crafts and design. Since 1844, we have educated a diverse range of professionals within these fields as well as art and sloyd teachers. We conduct both artistic and scientific education/research and currently have 900 students and 200 employees.