We will present the work packages proposal for a method and offer tools for exploring ethical issues in research projects during workshops, discussions, and other training situations. Map Ethics! is an open model for unfolding and mapping ethical aspects and issues within the frame of artistic Ph.D. projects and doctoral supervision – not with a normative approach, but to instigate discussion, curiosity, and consciousness.

Supervision in artistic research: How much is the same or different from other research disciplines?

We will present the work packages proposal for a method and offer tools for exploring ethical issues in research projects during workshops, discussions, and other training situations. Map Ethics! is an open model for unfolding and mapping ethical aspects and issues within the frame of artistic Ph.D. projects and doctoral supervision – not with a normative approach, but to instigate discussion, curiosity, and consciousness.

The presentation introduces scenarios as an exploratory, non-normative approach to supervisor training. It unfolds how work packages from the other partners in the Advancing Supervision project have informed the development work, the intentions supporting the development of the scenarios, consideration of formats, and how to involve participants. Finally, it describes the structure and content of the online interactive resource with training modules that are the outcome of the work package.

This non-normative contribution from the Glasgow school of Art consists of a playful video work in which staff at the School of Fine Art respond to the research paper in which Ines Bento Coelho and Henry Rogers explore the development of artistic research environments, peer learning, an innovative triadic model for supervision and wellbeing in the doctoral process. The contributors were asked to deal with the text in a diverse ways, to give voice to it, and to ultimately attend to materiality by bursting into song. This offering evokes a mishmash methodology, a aspirational mega-remix, and a return to making of art, or so we hope!

The presentation provides an overview over the goals and the content of the two toolkits that were developed in the ZHdK work package: a “Checklist /Guidelines Main Areas and Problematics of Artistic Research Doctorates Supervision for Conceptualizing or Re-conceptualizing AR Doctoral Programmes with regard to supervision (target group: decision makers – university board members / deans / doctoral programme leaders), an “Integral Questionnaire for input / feedback / evaluation” (target groups: administrators / supervisors / PhD candidates alike).

To share knowledge and critically challenge one’s artistic work with others requires building a relationship of trust, context and comprehension, of language, expectation, empathy, degrees of consensus, and honesty. We will present a series of broad indicators of components that can lead to constructive artistic feedback in doctoral supervision.

It is liberating to look back at the simplicity of our primary set of verbs we have put on the board together in the end of 2018 to advance the verb “to supervise”: „to coach”, „to mother“, „to stalk“, „to question“ and many more. Constructing the primary mind-map was a deep listening exercise that took various encounters across art schools and project events. Each conversation added a new layer, still it is left to be an open structure. It is a simple communication tool for people around any table to map their artistic supervision practices, expectations, or distress together, to start the conversation always anew. We will unpack the process and the result of these collective excercises.

It is liberating to look back at the simplicity of our primary set of verbs we have put on the board together in the end of 2018 to advance the verb “to supervise”: „to coach”, „to mother“, „to stalk“, „to question“ and many more. Constructing the primary mind-map was a deep listening exercise that took various encounters across art schools and project events. Each conversation added a new layer, still it is left to be an open structure. It is a simple communication tool for people around any table to map their artistic supervision practices, expectations, or distress together, to start the conversation always anew. We will unpack the process and the result of these collective excercises.