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LINK 2024 Conference Proceedings
Vol. 5 No. 1 (2024)The 6th Edition of the LINK 2024 International Conference took place in South America, presenting the latest advancements in practice-oriented research from Aotearoa New Zealand. This year, 21 researchers, including eight prominent Māori scholars, travelled to Chile and Brazil to join forces with local scholars, drawing inspiration from the magnificent Toroa. This albatross journeys to South America's rich, food-laden waters to feed before returning to the Pacific to breed. Similarly, through this conference, we sought to engage with South America's scholars and their knowledge, bringing them back to Aotearoa New Zealand, to nurture and amplify positive outcomes in our research and creative practice.
The conference celebrated the spirit of cultural exchange, encouraging researchers to collaborate and share knowledge with their counterparts in South America. LINK 2024 promoted dialogue on South-to-South knowledge exchange, challenged established boundaries in design, creativity, and indigenous epistemologies, and aimed to strengthen connections between Aotearoa and South America through academic collaboration and innovative research practices.
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LINK 2023 Conference Proceedings
Vol. 4 No. 1 (2023)The 5th Edition of LINK 2023 International Conference of Practice-led Research and Global South embraces the theme of Latin American Diaspora in Aotearoa New Zealand. In an increasingly interconnected world shaped by globalization and technological advances, LINK 2023 delve into the intricate relationship between the Latin American diaspora that has found a home in Aotearoa and their practices. In doing so, it challenges established norms and boundaries of design, creativity, language, and diasporic knowledge. Continuing in the footsteps of previous editions, this year's conference advocates for novel modes of engagement between design and the Global South arena. In drawing inspiration from the creative practices and methodologies within the Global South, the conference is interested in the role of creative expression in generating knowledge within design processes. These approaches from South redefine the dynamics between researchers, practitioners, and practice, empowering practitioners to assume control over research data and methodologies. LINK 2023 celebrates these paradigm shifts. It responds to the call for the decolonisation of research within higher education institutions and the critical reappraisal of research methodologies through practice as a form of inquiry. It places emphasis on the interconnectedness that spans physical, social, emotional, spiritual, and intellectual dimensions between people and the environments they inhabit.
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LINK 2022 Conference ProceedingsVol. 3 No. 1 (2022)
In its 4th edition, LINK 2022 celebrates the relationship between practice-led design research, the Global South, and Indigenous world views, fostering cognitive shifts to address twenty-first-century issues and the creation of inclusive communities that emphasise the interconnectedness (physical, social, emotional, spiritual, and intellectual) between people and landscapes.
The LINK 2022 Conference Proceedings shared the experiences of the 14 presenters to stimulate the possibilities of practice-oriented research in Design from a Global South perspective.
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LINK 2021 Conference ProceedingsVol. 2 No. 1 (2021)
This edition is dedicated to the LINK 2021 Conference Proceedings. It includes all abstracts selected via double-blind peer-review evaluated by the conference 56 chair members from dozens of universities around 16 counties and included 283 authors in total. The purpose of LINK 2021 is to raise awareness about practice-oriented research in Art and Design and to stimulate practitioners and educators to share their approaches, methodologies, practices and ideas. Presenters demonstrate the potential of research when practice is an integrated component of the study and constituted as a form of inquiry, from a range of methodological procedures and frameworks. In its 3rd edition, LINK 2021is an online publication with all manuscripts selected from our reviewers. We hope you enjoy the reading,
Marcos Mortensen Steagall
LINK 2021 Proceedings Editor and Conference General Chair
Sergio Nesteriuk Gallo
LINK 2021 Proceedings Editor and Conference General Chair