Transforming Creative Practice through Diffractive Methodologies is a program conceived as a practice-based laboratory for transforming participants’ own creative and research work. Guided by the thought of Karen Barad, the course engages diffraction as both an epistemological and methodological framework for reconfiguring and articulating ongoing practice, while reflecting on the ethical and political implications of specific ways of working.The program explores situated and relational approaches to creativity and research, emphasizing co-creation, attentiveness to materialities, and more-than-human perspectives. Materials, data, and contexts are understood not as neutral resources, but as active participants in the work.
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This course is primarily addressed to artists, designers, and creative practitioners working through practice-based research; researchers in art, design, architecture, and related fields interested in reflecting on and transforming their own practice; PhD candidates and early-career researchers engaged in artistic or practice-based research; and educators and facilitators interested in situated, relational, and experimental methodologies. The course is particularly suited to participants who want to work from within their own practice, using diffractive methodologies to rethink how they create, research, and articulate their work.
No prior expertise in diffraction is required; however, an interest in experimental, interdisciplinary, and situated approaches is expected.
The course combines diffractive practices, sessions with invited guests from the fields of art, design, science, and philosophy, experimentation with materialities and data, shared readings and collective discussion, collaborative work and co-creation processes, field-based activities, and situated practice. Participants work throughout the course with their own ongoing project or practice as a point of reference.
— Karen Barad
PhD in Quantum Physics and Philosophy, one of the leading voices in material feminism and new materialisms. Introduces agential realism, merging quantum physics and feminist theory to rethink matter, knowledge and ethics.
— Pep Vidal
Artist and scientist, PhD in Physic Sciences, whose research-based practice examines measurement, scientific systems, and the limits of knowledge.
— Lara García Díaz
PhD in Social Sciences, specializing in cultural criticism and art and design theory, focused on academic and artistic research, cultural mediation, and pedagogy.
— Blanca Pujals
Architect and researcher examining borders, techno-scientific infrastructures, and spatial politics through film and installation.
— Pilar Cortada
Eina Obra director and PhD in Philosophy, artist and researcher exploring creativity as a relational, situated and distributed process.
— Julia Nueno
Researcher and computer designer, exploring digital infrastructures with a critical and speculative approach, working at Forensic Architecture.
— Júlia Lull Sanz
Art theorist and historian, PhD in Image Theory, researcher and feminist activist.
— Albert Barqué-Durán (TBC)
Artist and researcher, PhD in Cognitive Science, investigating creative technologies and digital art, focused on artificial intelligence and perception.
— Silvia Zayas
Artist and researcher, PhD in Arts and Humanities, working on embodiment, affect, and relational practices as forms of situated knowledge.
— Claudia Claremí
Artist and filmmaker, he explores memory and the body, and delves into the relationships between the personal and the collective, coloniality and phytoculture.
— Antonio Gagliano
Artist and researcher whose work intertwines drawing, writing, and visual projects to explore how human knowledge emerges, is organized, and circulates.
M1. Introduction: Intra-action, Diffraction, Apparatuses and Agential Cuts
(How knowledge is produced. Intra-action, responsibility)
— Session 1: Reflection or diffraction? Wave or particle?
07/07 | 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Karen Barad & Pep Vidal
— Session 2: Apparatuses and Agential Cuts: How Phenomena Emerge
08/07 | 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Karen Barad & Pep Vidal
M2. (Reading the Cut in Practice
Examining how tools, protocols, and working conditions shape what can appear within one’s own creative or research practice)
— Session 1: Differences That Matter
09/07 | 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Julia Nueno — Forensic Architecture
& Lara García
— Session 2: Relational Mapping and Apparatus Reading
10/07 | 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Lara García & Pilar Cortada
M3. Material, Object, and Data Agencies
(Working with materials, objects, and data as co-agents in practice-based research and creation)
— Session 1: Material and Object Agencies in Practice
13/07 | 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Júlia Lull Sanz & Lara Díaz
— Session 2: Data as Emerging from Situated Practices
14/07 | 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Albert Barqué-Durán & Blanca Pujals
M4. Diffractive Methodologies
(Using diffraction as a mode of attention and making, through interference, crossings of perspectives, and productive displacement)
— Session 1: Diffractive Encounters and Affect
15/07 | 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Silvia Zayas & Lara García
— Session 2: Attention as an Agential Cut
16/07 | 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Claudia Claremi & Pilar Cortada
M5. Situated Interventions
(Articulating situated processes and interventions that respond to material, ethical, and political conditions)
— Session 1: Diffractive articulation
17/07 | 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Antonio Gagliano & Lara García
— Session 2: Tracing the transformation
18/07 | 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Blanca Pujals, Lara García & Pilar Cortada
— Bring and share lunch
From 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Faculty and participants from Summer School (Technoscience & Creative Practice)
There are two ways to complete the payment:
— Online – via the following registration link:
https://buy.stripe.com/14AcN55ff2SoeFDdiNf3a06
— Bank Transfer – to one of the following accounts:
• Arquia Bank – IBAN: ES80 3183 0800 8710 0086 6424
• CaixaBank – IBAN: ES50 2100 0808 1702 0073 9229
(Entity Code: 0456635)
• Banc Sabadell – IBAN: ES66 0081 0150 5500 0132 1537
• Banco Santander – IBAN: ES44 0049 1806 9726 1199 4641
Account Holder: Fundació Eina
Payment reference: “Your full name + S.S.Creative”
- 10% discount for members of the Eina community