Heritage, Culture, Community
The research platform explores identity and society, focusing on the roles of arts and crafts, and materials as agents of change.
Project Kattun (Photo: Daniela Auerbach)
In the Research Platform Heritage, Culture, Community, we explore identity and society through research and artistic practices. Our focus is on the relationships between bodies, space, and materials, examining how these elements shape our experiences and challenge our assumptions about how things are or should be. Our research encompasses various aspects, including the performative nature of bodies within their contexts, collaborative processes that strengthen communities, the role of arts, crafts, and design in both historical and contemporary settings, and how materials can act as agents for change.
We conduct socially responsible research that includes social, participatory, and co-created practices; protest and activism; identity; gender; queer studies; migration; diaspora; decolonization; segregation; anti-discrimination; labor; critical practices; sustainability; and ethical perspectives regarding materials.
Central to our research is social engagement and critical inquiry, aimed at challenging fixed assumptions about heritage, culture, community, identity, bodies, and cross-cultural exchange. We are committed to building sustainable, inclusive and pluralistic societies.
Contact: Maja Gunn, maja.gunn@konstfack.se