About
The MRes RCA is interdisciplinary: students from the fields of architecture, communication, design, fine art and the experimental humanities come together in a single programme to think about their practice as transforming, and as being transformed by, work in other disciplines. Students come to us to pursue a project of their choosing. Assured in their practices as artists, for example (or as writers, curators, architects, product designers, visual communicators – and the list goes on), students come to develop their knowledge on a topic that feels vital to them, which they filter through their practice. They come to us as practitioners. Drawing on methods from across disciplines, we teach them how to become researchers, too.
Interdisciplinary Research Methods
‘Inter’ is a Latin prefix, a word-forming element which means ‘between’, ‘among’, or ‘in the middle of’. It also describes states of mutuality, reciprocity, and exchange; of being together, ultimately for one another – think, for example of the word interdependence. In our work on the MRes RCA, we emphasise what can be gained from locating one’s work between the things such as disciplines and departments that universities often separate. The interdisciplinary space is one of freedom, risk, and experimentation: disciplines are traversed; possibilities are explored; hierarchies are critiqued; knowledge is not amassed but shared. Across many different teaching methods, we introduce students to examples of often unfamiliar, suppressed, neglected work which points us to new ways of seeing, thinking and doing.
Interdisciplinary Research Methods
‘Inter’ is a Latin prefix, a word-forming element which means ‘between’, ‘among’, or ‘in the middle of’. It also describes states of mutuality, reciprocity, and exchange; of being together, ultimately for one another – think, for example of the word interdependence. In our work on the MRes RCA, we emphasise what can be gained from locating one’s work between the things such as disciplines and departments that universities often separate. The interdisciplinary space is one of freedom, risk, and experimentation: disciplines are traversed; possibilities are explored; hierarchies are critiqued; knowledge is not amassed but shared. Across many different teaching methods, we introduce students to examples of often unfamiliar, suppressed, neglected work which points us to new ways of seeing, thinking and doing.
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