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Visual-Material methods : decoration or unique ways of seeing?. Dr. Ian Robson. @ianrobsons. The epistemology of visual and material ‘things’. Status of the visual-material?. What counts as ‘valid’ and why? What can ‘things’ tell us? How are they encountered? How do they ‘speak’?
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Visual-Material methods: decoration or unique ways of seeing? Dr. Ian Robson @ianrobsons
Status of the visual-material? • What counts as ‘valid’ and why? • What can ‘things’ tell us? • How are they encountered? • How do they ‘speak’? • Visual-material as socio-cultural ‘tools’
Affect (from phenomenology to Deleuze) Human-Object ‘situations’ (and historical materialism) Activities: e.g. Scanning-holding-placing-structuring-rejecting. Characteristics: e.g. Permanence, all-in-one-place, location and proximity, metaphorical, more-than dialogue. What affordances?