Glide: Design, Indeterminacy and the Specificity of the Contingent

RESEARCH BACKGROUND: This textual work, published in the Journal for Artistic Research (JAR), is a multi-media exposition that aims to capture research undertaken in the medium of design. The exposition is structured around a lecture delivered at The Bartlett, University College London in 2010. That lecture was developed with the intension of capturing the research in a communicable way for this JAR publication. The exposition includes a recording of the lecture, a transcript of the lecture, images from the lecture, drawings of the two key works discussed in the lecture, an introductory text to an exhibition of the work of New Zealand architects Kebbell Daish, and video and photographic portraits of the architectural practice Terroir, of which Blythe is a Director. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: The components of the exposition have been deliberately assembled to provide multiple ways of reading the research. The transcript includes timing notations at the beginning of paragraphs at regular spaces in the text so that readers can move between the audio and the text. Images are aligned on the right side of the relevant text in the transcript. Further to the right readers can find drawings, photographic portraits and a video portrait of Terroir and text related to Kebbell Daish. The exhibition introduction was written at the same time as preparing the lecture and deals with a specific example of a key characteristic of the design process and builds a picture of the wider community of practice for this research. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: This work was published in JAR: a digital platform where multiple methods, media and articulations function together to generate insights into artistic research endeavours, to promote expositions of practice as research. The work has been fully peer reviewed by the JAR review board. It is published in JAR's Research Catalogue (RC) which is a searchable, documentary database of artistic research work and its exposition.