Research Atlas - Bram Loogman, Brigiet van den Berg, Nina Jan

Using the financial support of the Comenius Senior Fellow grant (2018 /2020), a research project was set up by the Lectoraat that resulted in what’s now called the Research Atlas – an active archive of 12 years of research projects undertaken by the student-researchers of the Master of Film ‘Artistic Research in and through Cinema’. The Research Atlas project, which is still ongoing, originated from a desire to research the need for an online platform for the student-researchers of the Master to work, collaborate, share and publish their research. Essential to the method used in this project was the choice – consistent with the ethos of the Master’s programme – to organise the process of development not for (!) the student-researchers but with (!) them; bottom-up rather than top-down. Another determining principle was the desire to design a platform that would be audio-visual. Most platforms are text-driven – using images merely as illustration. The platform envisaged here befits the nature of the research done – namely in and through cinema – and thus is thought through from an audio-visual or cinematic point of view.  

The first phase of the project resulted in the Research Atlas: a working prototype of the archive to be used by the current student-researchers as a source of knowledge on research topics and projects undertaken by earlier Master student-researchers. It thus provides references, examples and potential collaborators for current student-researchers. (For a summary of the process and development of the Research Atlas in the context of the Comenius Senior Fellow Grant, click here) 

Next phases of the project will focus on the further development of the Atlas platform as a working and publication space. 

The researchers working on this Research Atlas project are Bram Loogman, Brigiet van den Berg and Nina Jan.

Year

2018