Author: BrigittaStone
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Creative Practice Research Outputs
People often ask me what creative practice research is; it is a lot of things; for me, principally, it is using my creative practice as a staging point for thinking, adding layers of depth to thinking about issues we face today, with the things of the material world. Post extractive urban terrains, the implication we…
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Process
A few reflections on my process of working, in Cyanotype and refection on cultivating creativity.
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Breath in the extractive zone
Some visual reflections, on the post-extractivist landscapes and legacies conference, I attended in Dublin in July.
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Encounter:
revised, presentation – UCD humanities institute: post-extractivist landscapes and legacies conference, July 2023. Encounter : addressing critical materialises in post-extractive urban terrains through rubbling – Draft paper
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Material Matters
Fasler Galley Wits School of Architecture March-June 2023 This exhibition showcases the work by the staff of the Architecture Program Although the work was not created with a particular theme in mind, the bringing together of artifacts condensates an interest in materiality. A compulsion to explore the limits and potentialities of architectural materials, glass, steel,…
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Neurospicy
Dyslexia affects, a significant proportion of students in higher education, in the post I discuss, what is it is and how it presents, the advantages, disadvantages, issues around abalsim, along with some ways one can assit students with dyslexia in postgraduate studies.
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‘Snow Studies’ mattering with Helsinki’s urban terrains
In December of 2022, Zen Marie, Alex Arteaga and myself, we asked to convene, a creative workshop as part of the Kuva research days 2022, entitled the ‘City as Space of Rules and Dreaming’ a project funded by the Kone foundation. You can read more about it here. We proposed to present a series of…
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How to finish a PhD while the world is falling apart
How to finish a PhD while the world is falling apart – Notes and tips from the studio Some notes by Brigitta Stone-Johnson. I have recently submitted my PhD in creative practice for the examination. My PhD work focused on interdisciplinary practice-led research between fine art and architecture, which I undertook while developing my teaching…
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Advice for the ‘Post-PhD Blues’
If you, like me, have had part or all of your PhD take place with two-year covid isolation and despair in the middle of it. Making your body of work in the backyard. Or you just reached the end, feeling bereft from life and a gruelling few years. If you have not already done so,…
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The body matters – ARA 2020 – Presentation
Making the body and materials present in post-extractive urban terrains in response to issues of the Anthropocene through speculative and performative practices Brigitta Stone-Johnson The University of the Witwatersrand, school of architecture and planning 2025 – Peer Reviewed Publication on wired space wits As a city founded on Gold mining in the 1890s, as we…