For a position as a PhD Candidate, the goal is a completed doctoral education up to an obtained doctoral degree.
We are looking for applicants with a drive to explore, articulate and document the capacity of art and culture, heritage, and creativity not only to adapt and contribute to the climate transition, but also to drive societal transformation processes.
The position requires a high level of commitment to contribute to a cutting-edge artistic research environment that experiments at the intersections of multiple forms of impact and value within the framework of knowledge production through the arts. The position should address challenges to contemporary ethics and aesthetics of participation and collaboration and explore the role of critical thinking and collective agency in responding to multiple societal challenges.
The successful candidate will develop an artistic research project that questions conventional narrative strategies and storytelling patterns and aims at reframing the urgencies of our time. The candidate should focus on the potential to enhance or augment collective agency by exploring the abilities to create affect and to be affected.
The position will be embedded in the ongoing research activities of the Horizon Europe-funded research project PACESETTERS, which brings together 15 universities and cultural organizations across Europe to explore the possibilities of shared creativity, decentralized architectures and collective intelligences. Further information is available at:Ā https://pacesetters.eu
Your immediate leader is Head of Department.
Duties of the position
The candidate’s dissertation should focus on documentary practices that manifest the capacities and potentials of artistic research within the field and through the means of the visual arts. The outcome will be presented through a variety of materials that reflect and document the candidate’s progress, but also the development of the research project throughout the process.
The candidate will be expected to share the development and outcomes of the artistic research and production at various levels: within the PACESETTERS research team and among its consortium partners, within the department and the university, as well as locally and internationally.
We seek applicants from visual arts, architecture, design and other related fields with a strong interest in environmental, spatial and interdisciplinary research. These may include, but are not limited to extractivism and green colonialism, architectural and media forensics, data-driven computational approaches to design, climate attribution, environment, human and more-than-human rights and the law, emerging digital technologies, visual culture and ecology, community work, and critical approaches to histories, and theories of environmental and climate justice.
Required selection criteria
- A masterās degree in art, architecture, design or a related field, or documented equivalent qualifications.
- Demonstrate their potential to carry out an artistic research project of international excellence
- Document previous experience of artistic research methods
- Have a track record of successful activities in the context of contemporary art and culture
- Demonstrate the ability to contribute to complex artistic research projects in the field of visual arts, across creative disciplines and in collaboration with societal stakeholders or scientific academic environments
- Demonstrate a strong interest in exploring future methods of cross-disciplinary collaboration between art, technology and society, and in relation to NTNU’s strategic research areas
- Possess excellent communication and teamwork skills and
- Have a good command of written and spoken English (prerequisite).
