Economies: Organizing, Valuating and Working
The relationship between art, design and the wider economy - markets, organisations and labour - is explored in this theme. Classic and new questions about the functions and dysfunctions of the economy are exposed and explored with practitioners in art and design research.
The research also examines the specific characteristics of the economies and organisation of art and design; how value is produced, imagined and represented in these fields, and how organisational change can be created through art and design. As technology is closely linked to economics, markets and organisations - and has a major influence on art and design - the research has a strong emphasis on a critical examination of the impact of technology, including its organisation, materials and algorithms.
