by cohort 22-24
Francesca Baur
Bruna Cerasi
Karoline Von Igel
Laura Middlehurst
Ikki Kawanishi
Charline Lalanne
Hannah Ogahara
Danielle Statham
Tom Whiteley
During the first year at MARD students gain a lot of knowledge, methods and explore regenerative processes through the lens of design, ecology and anthropology. One of these lensen is through fieldwork as method to conduct immerse and place-based research.
Fieldwork asks to come out of the thinking and projecting and step into real-world interaction, observations, building relations and deepen their understanding being part of ecosystems. No more hovering over context but stepping into context and spending time within to learn, listen, connect, collaborate and find new entry points in understanding and working as part of living systems equipped with design, ecological and anthropological methods. Students explore their local biosphere territory that stretch their learning and understanding of local needs, capital and stakeholders whilst developing new knowledge and their eco-literate understanding.
Fieldwork is a method to stretch the students experience and is intended to be immersive; the students join in with the daily activities, set out a research route to map the macro, meso and micro and work in their local biosphere or alongside local community and networks. The idea is not to helicopter in and confirm ideas, but join, stand in the mud, being present and learn from the experience of place and navigate process whilst mapping out their findings.