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Knowledge Design

The phrase ‘Knowledge Design’ describes the situation in the contemporary arts and humanities that most engages Professor Schnapp as a ‘digital humanist’: the fact that the form that knowledge assumes can no longer be considered a given. The tools of humanistic enquiry have become as much objects of research and experimentation as have modes of dissemination. Statistical methods press against one edge of the qualitative human sciences; graphic and information design press up against another. Laboratories arise with a team-based ethos, embracing a triangulation of arts practice, critique, and outreach, merging research, pedagogy, publication, and practice. The once firm boundary line between libraries, museums, archives, and the classroom grows porous as scholarship, deprived of its once secure print-based home, starts shuttling back and forth between the stacks and the streets.

In his talk, Professor Schnapp provided an overall mapping of this situation and singled out some key nodes: the re-mediation of print, data portraiture, bridging the analogue/digital divide, and the redesign of knowledge spaces from classrooms to museums.

Learning Outcomes

After viewing this video lecture, learners should be able to:

  • Appreciate the different modes of research that scholars undertake
  • Understand how those modes have evolved and are becoming blurred in interdisciplinary research

Cite as

Jeffrey Schnapp (2016). Knowledge Design. Version 1.0.0. Edited by Florian Wiencek and Laura Still. Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (ACDH-CH). [Video]. http://localhost:3000/id/F59nRJ5sR1s5HQvtrW7f0

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Full metadata

Title:
Knowledge Design
Authors:
Jeffrey Schnapp
Domain:
Social Sciences and Humanities
Language:
en
Published:
7/7/2022
Content type:
Video
Licence:
CCBY 4.0
Sources:
DARIAH
Topics:
eHeritage, Scholarly practice
Version:
1.0.0