Writing

DBBD is writing a PhD

Interpassivity, the uncanny double of Interactivity

Is the decision to keep on walking in an open-world game (as opposed to completing quests and interacting with NPCs and players) driven by some kind of notion of delegated consumption and interpassivity?

Game Review: WINDOW by ATTEMPTS X The Doodle People

SARA has gone missing and you have to solve the mystery by looking into her computer, which becomes a portal into various other folders and other alternate realities…

Vectors of discovery: serendiptious discovery in libraries and bookstores

What if the best way to browse information wasn’t just to use conventional categorisation, but instead to be able to explore the library in chaotically serendiptious ways?

Could an “Exhibition Proposal” be an artistic research paper?

In 2010 I wrote a 17-page exhibition proposal. Can art practice be research? Can an artwork produce knowledge? And could an exhibition proposal be an artistic research paper?

The Evolution of my PhD Proposal

A frank timeline of my PhD application process and the evolution of my PhD proposal. An account of how I realised that I did not want to specialise in educational research or HCI research, and instead wanted to do Art Practice / Practice-led Research.

Welcome to this Research Journal!

Debbie is doing a PhD, which is a renewed commitment to writing! “The capacious holdall bag of the research journal can be ransacked for its gems at any time!”