Picturing the Invisible

这个网络将解决所有学科的一个共同问题，即如何阐明不可见的、未知的或不可证明的东西。学者们面临的挑战是如何将这些概念首先向学术领域内的人阐述，然后向其他学科和广大公众阐述。此外，随着我们对世界复杂性的理解不断增加，我们意识到问题和问题很少能在整齐的界限内得到解决。因此，寻找跨学科和跨领域的沟通手段的重要性成为优先事项。因此，在承认专业学术的重要性的同时，理解其他学科的能力，他们的优先事项，方法论，甚至所使用的语言都可以成为有效的变革工具的关键。这个项目汇集了来自广泛学科的一些领先学者，包括艺术与设计，策展实践，文学，法医学，时尚，医学，精神分析和心理治疗，哲学，天体物理学和建筑学，他们都表示有兴趣探索如何在每个学科中，我们努力寻找无形或未知的表达。预计随着项目的发展，将增加更多的学科，该项目将以一个封闭的讲习班为起点，网络的核心成员将在讲习班上相互介绍情况，讨论趋同和分离的领域。通过各网络成员的解释，它将确定议程，并提供共同基础，以开展更广泛的多学科辩论。约翰·索恩爵士的博物馆，谁将主办研讨会，是一个理想的背景下，跨学科的调查无形的。博物馆涵盖了广泛的关注，包括社会历史，建筑，保护和博物馆学。无形的概念是显而易见的，不仅是过多的投机模型和图纸，而且与索恩的，对来世的迷恋，他在纪念和他的建筑将如何作为废墟生存的想象力的投影的尝试。随后，PI将在博物馆举办一个名为“描绘无形的-从下面看的房子”的新作品展览，作为对博物馆收藏的回应，并试图使仆人的无形存在变得明显，并使公众关注博物馆内缺少的东西以及如何使其具体化。该展览将作为解决无形的想法的一种方式，并将成为基于实践的研究的一个例子。非正式的设置旨在鼓励投机思维和正常教学环境之外的自由交流。一个网站/博客将捕捉从参与者将制定正式的文件，在网络会议上将在切尔西艺术学院（UAL）举行的事件的讨论。会议还将向博士生和早期职业研究人员开放，不仅提供交流论坛，还将为其他交叉和跨学科项目的发展提供平台。该项目的另一个方面是提供一个支持跨学科和跨学科研究的网络。会议的论文将构成由UCL出版社出版的编辑书籍的基础，以解决非专业观众的问题，并确保网络的结果达到广泛的受众。另一个出版物将采取《印刷艺术》杂志（由Susan Tallman编辑）特别版的形式，网络成员将在其中讨论选定的印刷品，作为从其学科角度阐述无形事物的一种手段。

This network will address a common problem for all disciplines, how to articulate the invisible, that which is not known or that which is not provable. The challenge for academics is how to articulate these concepts, firstly to those within academic field and then beyond, to other disciplines and the public at large. Furthermore, as our understanding of the complexity of the world grows incrementally, so our realisation that issues and problems can rarely be resolved within neat demarcations. Therefore the importance of finding means of communicating across disciplines and fields becomes a priority. So whilst acknowledging the essential importance of the specialist academic, the capacity to understand other disciplines, their priorities, methodologies and even the language used can become crucial in being an effective instrument for change.This project brings together a number of leading academics from a wide range of disciplines including Art & Design, Curatorial Practice, Literature, Forensic Science, Fashion, Medical Science, Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy, Philosophy, Astrophysics and Architecture who have all expressed interest in exploring how, in each discipline, we strive to find expression for the invisible or unknown. It is anticipated that as the project develops, further disciplines will be added.The project takes as its starting point, a closed workshop where the core members of the network will present to each other and discuss areas of convergence and separation. Through the interpretation of the various network members, it will set the agenda and provide common ground from which to develop wider multi-disciplinary debates. Sir John Soane's Museum, who will host the workshop, is an ideal backdrop for a cross disciplinary investigation of the invisible. The museum encompasses a wide range of concerns including social history, architecture, conservation & museology. The concept of the invisible is evident in, not only the plethora of speculative models and drawings but also with Soane's, the fascination with the afterlife, his attempts at memorialisation and the imaginative projection of how his buildings would survive as ruins. This will be followed by an exhibition by the PI at the museum of new work entitled "Picturing the Invisible - The House from Below" made as a response to the museum's collection, and seeks to make apparent the invisible presence of the servants and to focus the public on what is absent within the museum and how this can be made concrete. The exhibition will function as a way of addressing the idea of the invisible and will be an example of practice based research. The informal setting is designed to encourage speculative thinking and free exchange outside of the regular teaching environment. A website/blog will capture discussions from the events from which the participants will develop formal papers for presentation at the network conference to be held at Chelsea College of Arts (UAL). The conference will also be open to PhD students and early career researchers and will provide not only a forum for exchange but also a platform from which other cross and interdisciplinary projects might grow. A further aspect of the project is to provide a network for the support of cross and interdisciplinary research.The papers from the conference will form the basis for an edited book to be published by UCL Press written to address a non-specialist audience and ensure that the results of the network reach a wide audience. A further publication will take the form of a special edition of the journal Art in Print (edited by Susan Tallman) in which network members will discuss selected prints as a means of articulating the invisible as seen from their discipline's perspective.