EINA Research

EINA’s researchers work as a community and meet monthly in the EINA Research Network knowledge promotion network. The EINA Research Network is an ongoing Seminar that promotes and supports the school's research initiatives, bolsters collaborations, and establishes the strategic research guidelines at EINA.

The EINA Research Community employs the Autonomous University of Barcelona, to which EINA belongs, as a model of expertise and tradition in research. In line with this commitment, 12 EINA researchers are collaborating as Associate Researchers (IVU) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona within the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Advertising, Public Relations, and Audiovisual Communication, and the Department of Musical, Artistic, and Body Expression Education.

EINA Research boasts two Research Groups recognized by the Department of Research and Universities under the Government of Catalonia. 

Consolidated Research Group 2021SGR01381 GRETDA: Research Group on Aesthetics and the Theory of Design and Art. 

Researchers: Anna Alcubierre, Bárbara Bayarri, Daniela Callejas, Tània Costa (Coordinator), Pol Capdevila, Sara Coscarelli, Alfonso Hoyos, Jèssica Jaques, Enric Mas, Oriol Pibernat, Octavi Rofes, Pau de Solà-Morales, Andrea Soto, Jaume Vidal, and Gerard Vilar. 

Emerging Research Group 2021SGR00559 DISBE: Research Group on Design for Health and Wellbeing. 

Researchers: Elena Bartomeu, Enric Garrido, Salvador Huertas, Raúl Oliva (Coordinator), Anna Pujadas, Dolors Soriano, and David Steegman. 

The EINA research community has also participated in Research Groups and Centres where it collaborates with other Universities:  

• SGR 01014 ATLAS. Critical Intersections in Education (UAB)
• SGR 1312 GRETA. Research Group on Aesthetics and Art Theory (UAB)
• SGR 360 GRETA. Research Group on Aesthetics and Art Theory (UAB)
• SGR 1158 PatriARQ. Architectural Heritage (URV)
• SGR 00686 Esbrina. Subjectivities, visualities, and contemporary educational environments (UB)
• GIDC GINDOC-UB/087 Indaga-t (UB)
• GIDC GINDOC-UB/141 Adaptabit (UB)
• SGR 422 Culture and Digital Content (UB)

EINA researchers form part of competitive research projects at EINA and other Spanish and international universities, following the EINA Research strategic guidelines that promote inter-university collaboration in order to generate broad and diverse lines of knowledge.

• Reassembling politics across children's cultures to scale intersectional pedagogies. MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE ACTIONS. Staff Exchanges (HORIZON-MSCA-SE-2022).
• ARDES. Art, Design & Sustainability. Climate change. Erasmus +, 2021-1-ES01-KA220-HED-000032193 European Commission. MyDocumenta (Spain); European University Cyprus; Universidade Aberta (Portugal); EINA, University School of Design and Art of Barcelona (Spain); LABA Valencia (Spain).
• Open Up. Migrant Artists. 607376-CREA-1-2019-1-CY-CULT-COOP2 European Commission, Creative Europe. Pierides Foundation (Nicosia, Cyprus); Publics (Helsinki, Finland); Université de Picardie Jules Verne (Amiens, France); University of Thessaly (Volos, Greece); New Hand Lab (Covilhã, Portugal); Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain); Valand Academy of the Gothenburg University (Sweden).
• RESTAURA. Cultural Ecosystem Services, health and wellbeing in urban and peri-urban areas with petrochemical clusters. PID2020-114363GB-I00 Ministry of Science and Innovation. Rovira i Virgili University.
• MOVER. Mobility Overflow: A Comparative Study of New Urban Mobilities. PID2019-107929RB-I00 Ministry of Science and Innovation. University of Barcelona.
• Artistic research and aesthetic thinking. A meeting point between philosophy, art, and design. MICU PGC2018-093502-B-100 Ministry of Culture. Autonomous University of Barcelona.
• The generation of knowledge in artistic research: towards an alternative explanation: a meeting point between philosophy, art, and design. MINECO FFI2015-64138-P Ministry of Economy and Business. Autonomous University of Barcelona.
• Intercluster research project on environments to support innovation in the creation of spaces for collectives: towards a Space-Platform. BCD Barcelona Centre de Disseny; HABITAT Clúster Barcelona; Clúster MAV Materials Avançats de Catalunya. EINA, University School of Design and Art of Barcelona.
• A novel home healthcare platform for chronic kidney disease CKDSens. EIT Health. Bosch i Gimpere Foundation. University of Barcelona.
• Do It Yourself in Education: Expanding Digital Competence to Foster Student Agency And Collaborative Learning. 543177-LLP-1-2013-1-ESKA3MP. European Commission. Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency. University of Barcelona; Escola Virolai (Barcelona); Oulu University (Finland); Charles University and ZŠ Korunovační (Prague, Czech Republic).
• The landscape as a collective value: analysis of its meaning, uses, and social perception. CSO2017-82411-P. Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. Rovira i Virgili University.
• Food and urban public space: Barcelona as a case study. Recercaixa. Polytechnic University of Catalonia.
• Analytical evolutionary parameters of construction techniques in the northeast area of Tarragona area in late antiquity: homogenization, representation, and calibration criteria (PARTAR). HAR2015-64392-C4-2-P. Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. Rovira i Virgili University.
• Theory and criticism of the arts in Catalonia, Valencia, and the Balearic Islands between 1800 and 1980. HAR2013-48050-P Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. Pompeu Fabra University.
• Application of Serious Games in collaborative environments for conveying Catalan cultural heritage, ARREL. Recercaixa. Rovira i Virgili University.

The objective of MURAD is to open an experimental space for study, work, and exchanges in which each student can carry out their design and/or art research project. During the academic year, students are offered the necessary methodological and conceptual skills and tools to conduct an exceptional project, taking into account the unique attributes of each student. Competences in argumentation, writing, and scholarly publishing are promoted alongside the creative processes of practice-based research. The thematic approaches address the fields of Visual Creation, Project Culture, and Aesthetics applied to artistic and design research.

MURAD boasts an experimental research publication led by students and professors of the Master's Degree: LAMURAD, Southern Journal of Research in Art and Design.

With the line of research in design and art and within the Doctoral Programme of the Department of Philosophy of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, EINA is the first university centre of Design and Art in Spain to develop the entire training continuum from undergraduate to doctoral studies, an aspect that makes it a nationwide pioneer with an academic offering similar to that of European centres with global educational profiles dedicated to artistic and design research.

The Applied Aesthetics in Artistic and Design Research Group, GEARAD, is a lecture group within the doctoral education courses at EINA and UAB that meets monthly to discuss procedural and methodological issues concerning the members’ doctoral theses. Since its foundation in 2017, around 25 doctoral students have participated annually.

GEARAD doctoral theses cover theoretical and practical aspects involved in a variety of art and design themes. The 11 theses defended to date have made relevant contributions to knowledge in the following fields of studies: political choreographies and contemporary dance; performance and taste aesthetics; graphic design and visualizations; acoustic design and sound art; design and cinema; new materialisms and digital art; and industrial design and ethics. Three theses are scheduled to be defended during the first semester of 2023. These theses address themes on artistic and curatorial research, interior design in restoration, and post-colonial thinking.

- Doctoral Programmes

The EINA Digital Repository (DDE) is the institutional repository that contains open-access publications resulting from the teaching, research, and institutional activity by professors, students, and other members of the EINA community.

The repository is a statement of principles. EINA is committed to the international open access initiative with the aim of being a global university that opens its knowledge to the academic community around the world.

Objectives

The DDE has a twofold objective. On the one hand, the preservation of the material produced by the community of EINA professors, researchers, and students: articles, reports, and other scientific texts resulting from the research conducted by teaching and research staff, final undergraduate projects, master's and postgraduate projects, classwork that has reached a level of excellence, teaching materials and notes, institutional publications, and so on. The DDE also seeks to enhance the visibility and scope of these materials and the authors who produced them. Moreover, the DDE adds value to all these publications through standardized citations, usage statistics, permanent URLs, and making them available through an interoperable platform.

Access

DDE records are freely accessible and distributed under different Creative Commons licenses. They are open to everyone and can be consulted by the public.