Art &

Perspectives and dimensions of art practice as an act of teaching and learning in relation to socio-cultural, historical, and ecological contexts and actions.

Interactions between changing rural-urban landscapes, architecture, and niche-built ecosystems and the lives that inhabit them.

Individual and community relationships with biodiversity and ideas of realities through objects, spaces, and inquiries in microcosms, ecological systems, and their problems and future.

Understanding individual realities, histories, issues, and diversification of interactions at multiple intersections in the context of geopolitical and social dimensions.

Reflections, assessments, and comments on the context and culture of common actions, practises and structures relevant to the lives of people through engagement with artistic interventions and social discourse.

Education in arts and allied fields, education and pedagogy building through art practice

Liveness, the performative; immersion

Discourses around the body and intersections with performance technology ecology affect

Tool; techne; method and mechanisms; device(s)

Exploring cultural life in tandem with the environment through artistic practises to develop a meaningful connection with climate change, scientific knowledge, community action and concern.

Migration, diaspora and diasporic issues and identities, movement and migration in a historical context, socio-political, cultural contexts of migration

Women and trans issues, gender inequality

Sonic, experimental sound, music

Critical engagement with all and upcoming design methodologies and design fields

Food, ecology and ecosytems and their intersteces; social, cultural, historical and ecological understandings of food; critical examinations of food; food and affect and memory

Anthropocene, extreme weather, ecological/ food/ weather systems as they intersect with capitalism/ human activity/ politics and technology

Body and data, reflecting on digitality, digital violence, being online, online identity and space making; deep fakes; post truth; propaganda; reality and fictiom; technocracy; surveillance capitalism; representational identities; internet/digital infrastrucutral matrix; digital topography; datafication as knowledge

Natural and physical sciences, history of science, vernacular understandings of science, engagement with methodologies drawn from science; planetary sensorium, embodied understandings of scientific phenomena

Mental health, systemic structures impacting health, medical systems and knowledges, intersection of social justice/ social design/ ecology and health

Self reflections and critical perspectives on contemporary art and allied ecosystems

Intersection of art and gaming; gamification; gaming and technology; immersion

Films and video dialogues as a medium of expression of cultural and individual realities, simulating experiences, triggering memory, and musing futures in context of the shifting nature of politics, economies, and landscapes.

Fashion and clothing as a symbolic visual language communicating socio- economic realities, historical and contemporary identities, relationships with ecology and weather systems, and self-perceptions.