IN/Search RE/Search: Imagining Scenarios Through Art and Design

How art-school research skills can inform and transform other fields from politics to science Art-school students learn that research skills are essential if they are to contribute alternative ways of thinking. How can these research skills unique to art academies find wider application?The essays and projects presented here look at art-school research practices that can inform the worlds of culture, industry, housing, education, politics, public space, advertising and science.The projects are structured into 12 twelve substantive chapters: The Anthropocene Epoch; The Climate Crisis; The Coexerced Existence, The Limitations of Language; Facts and Fictions; The Fragile Human; The Instrumentalized Identity; Gender and Violence; The Question of Race; Politics of Public Space; Naked Capitalism; The Morality of a Cyborg. Each theme is contextualized with a recent news story that positions how that topic is discussed in the press, and each chapter ends with an academic reflection, grappling