ARTIFACTS – Challenges for creation and transmission in the Arts – John Didier

Conference on September 28 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the Jean Borde room
Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Bordeaux

John Didier's research focuses on both artifacts and design activity in the context of creation and transmission in the arts (Didier, Quinche and Dias, 2022). Firstly, this presentation will question the artifact, to be understood as an object designed and created by human beings (Lebahar, 2007).

The artifact, this everyday object, is of growing interest for research in the human sciences (Blandin, 2002). This takes on different names: banal object – social object (Garabuau-Moussaoui and Desjeux, 2000), technical object (Simondon, 1989), system of objects (Baudrillard, 1968), work or product (Deforge, 1989), total social fact (Dagognet, 1989). The artifact activates a whole series of representations and produces a certain class of effects (Rabardel, 1995). Secondly, John Didier will return to the dynamics of creation (Giacco, Didier, Spampinato, 2017) in arts research by questioning the processes engaged within creation, and more precisely from the angle of the activity of design when making an artifact. To conclude, different methodological approaches used for arts research (Giacco, Didier, Chatelain and Verry, 2020) will be discussed with a view to better understanding the creative dynamics mobilized in artistic creation within different training contexts.

John Didier is Professor of didactics of creative activities, CREAT Laboratory (Creation and Research in the Teaching of Arts and Technology), Didactic teaching and research unit of art and technology, Haute École Pédagogique Vaud, Swiss.

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