🔵 🔴 🟡 Course description

The aim of the course (compulsory- common for both informal directions) is for students to get to know and assimilate basic functions and techniques of artistic research with emphasis on bibliographic research, indexing of sources, the use of research tools (questionnaire, interview, etc.), the basic techniques of artistic practice, methodology and ethics and ethics of practical research (practice-based,  practice-led, practice as research) and the methodology of writing and presenting an artistic work.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to

• Organize the full framework of their artistic research
• Carry out a bibliographic research
• Compose  the thematic material they have indexed (literature review)
• Compose the case study examples
• Know  the stages of writing
• Be aware of the methodologies and practices of artistic/practical research

🔵 🔴 🟡 Theory (1 hour)

1.  Introduction to Artistic Research 

2. Survey design. Formulation of research hypotheses and proposals. Elements, search, composition. 

3. Process of searching-recording information. The importance of sources. The bibliographic research process and techniques. Synthesis of ideas / opinions. 

4. Indexing: Technique of recording basic information. 

5. Organization/structure of a scientific text: The Bibliographic Review

6. Organization/structure of a scientific text: Case Study and Primary Research.

7. Ethics and Ethics in Research

8. Quantitative and qualitative means of data collection.

9. Techniques: Research diary, questionnaire, interview, focus group

10. Techniques: Observation, experiment and action research

11. Techniques: The Researcher Artist

12. Familiarity with basic bibliographic citation systems (ARA/Harvard).

13. Presentation of the skeleton of an artistic research/scientific text.

🔵 🔴 🟡 Workshop (2 hours)

1.  Introduction to Artistic Research 

2. Survey design. Formulation of research hypotheses and proposals. Elements, search, composition. 

3. Process of searching-recording information. The importance of sources. The bibliographic research process and techniques. Synthesis of ideas / opinions. 

4. Indexing: Technique of recording basic information. 

5. Organization/structure of a scientific text: The Bibliographic Review

6. Organization/structure of a scientific text: Case Study and Primary Research.

7. Ethics and Ethics in Research

8. Quantitative and qualitative means of data collection.

9. Techniques: Research diary, questionnaire, interview, focus group

10. Techniques: Observation, experiment and action research

11. Techniques: The Researcher Artist

12. Familiarity with basic bibliographic citation systems (ARA/Harvard).

13. Presentation of the skeleton of an artistic research/scientific text.

Language of assessment: Greek and English (for Erasmus students)

🔵 🔴 🟡 Evaluation method:

• Public presentation (oral) (40%)
• Deposit of work (60%)

• Face-to-face
• Use of digital presentations and computer during lecture.
• Use of laboratory exercises on computers. 
• Support of the learning process and distribution of material through the electronic platform e-class.
• Communication with students via e-mai and through an electronic chat room in the e-class.

https://eclass.uop.gr/courses/PDA109/  

🔵 🔴 🟡 Course Textbooks [Eudoxus]

• Leavy Patricia (2020) Artistic Creation as a Method. Research through art. Dardanos Publications
• Leavy Patricia (2021) Introduction to Art-Based Research. Disigma Publications
• Aslanidi, M. (2023) Scientific Research and Writing in the Arts. Klidarithmos Publications

Extra Bibliography

• Dragotis, E., Karagianni D. (2014), Guide to references and references of academic texts, University of Patras
• Isari, F., Pourkos, M., (2015). Qualitative research methodology. [Electronic book] Athens: Hellenic Academic Libraries Association. Available in: http://hdl.handle.net/11419/5826
• Liargovas, P., Dermatis, Z., Komninos, D. (2021). Research methodology and writing scientific papers. Tziolas
• Foster, J.J. (2001). Data analysis with SPSS for Windows. New Edition: Version 8- 10. London: Sage.
• Ghezzi, C. (2020). Being a researcher: an informatics perspective. Cham: Springer Nature.
• Gustavii, B. (2016). How to write and illustrate a scientific paper (3rd edition). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Rikou E., & Konstantinou K. (2022). Artistic research in Greece, from the 1990s to the years of the crisis. PIXELS@humanities, 2. https://doi.org/10.12681/pixelsh.31644
• Fanouraki K., Pefanis, G. (2021) Applied Theatre: Quality methods of research and learning through performing arts. ed. Papazisi