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Organisation

Media, Arts and Design

Research Group

Main organisation:Architecture and arts
Lifecycle:1 May 2013 →  Today
Organisation profile:

MAD-research aims to develop, organize and valorize the research within PXL-MAD, visual arts programme, with great attention to media, arts, design, and society. The focus lies on research that approaches the (art)object and the image from an artistic and/or designerly methodology and/or from a cross-disciplinary perspective. Designers and artists are supported in their research in the arts and in the systematic development of methods and techniques that are typical to the field of the arts and design. Theoretical lecturers are always supported in their research in cross-disciplinary collaborations with artists and/or designers. MAD-research aims to be to standard in Flanders regarding research in the arts, and to be the reference in the international field of research in the arts with respect to several topics, related to the three central research lines of MAD-research: MANUFrACTURE, FRAME and READSEARCH.

Keywords:Arts & Crafts, Design Methodology, Narratology, Typographic Research, Visual Codes, Visual Literacy
Disciplines:Artistic design, Visual arts