<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><sec id="j_jdis-2019-0014_s_007_w2aab3b7b4b1b6b1aab1c17b1Aa"><h3>Purpose</h3><p>This study expands on the results of a stakeholder-driven research project on quality indicators and output assessment of art and design research in Flanders—the Northern, Dutch-speaking region of Belgium. Herein, it emphasizes the value of arts &amp; design output registration as a modality to articulate the disciplinary demarcations of art and design research.</p></sec><sec id="j_jdis-2019-0014_s_008_w2aab3b7b4b1b6b1aab1c17b2Aa"><h3>Design/methodology/approach</h3><p>The particularity of art and design research in Flanders is first analyzed and compared to international examples. Hereafter, the results of the stakeholder-driven project on the creation of indicators for arts &amp; design research output assessment are discussed.</p></sec><sec id="j_jdis-2019-0014_s_009_w2aab3b7b4b1b6b1aab1c17b3Aa"><h3>Findings</h3><p>The findings accentuate the importance of allowing an assessment culture to emerge from practitioners themselves, instead of imposing ill-suited methods borrowed from established scientific evaluation models (Biggs &amp; Karlsson, 2011)—notwithstanding the practical difficulties it generates. They point to the potential of stakeholder-driven approaches for artistic research, which benefits from constructing a shared metadiscourse among its practitioners regarding the continuities and discontinuities between “artistic” and “traditional” research, and the communal goals and values that guide its knowledge production (Biggs &amp; Karlsson, 2011; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="j_jdis-2019-0014_ref_007_w2aab3b7b4b1b6b1ab1b6b7Aa">Hellström, 2010</xref>; Ysebaert &amp; Martens, 2018).</p></sec><sec id="j_jdis-2019-0014_s_010_w2aab3b7b4b1b6b1aab1c17b4Aa"><h3>Research limitation</h3><p>The central limitation of the study is that it focuses exclusively on the “Architecture &amp; Design” panel of the project, and does not account for intra-disciplinary complexities in output assessment.</p></sec><sec id="j_jdis-2019-0014_s_011_w2aab3b7b4b1b6b1aab1c17b5Aa"><h3>Practical implications</h3><p>The goal of the research project is to create a robust assessment system for arts &amp; design research in Flanders, which may later guide similar international projects.</p></sec><sec id="j_jdis-2019-0014_s_012_w2aab3b7b4b1b6b1aab1c17b6Aa"><h3>Originality/value</h3><p>This study is currently the only one to consider the productive potential of (collaborative) PRFSs for artistic research.</p></sec></abstract>

PurposeThis study expands on the results of a stakeholder-driven research project on quality indicators and output assessment of art and design research in Flanders—the Northern, Dutch-speaking region of Belgium. Herein, it emphasizes the value of arts & design output registration as a modality to articulate the disciplinary demarcations of art and design research.Design/methodology/approachThe particularity of art and design research in Flanders is first analyzed and compared to international examples. Hereafter, the results of the stakeholder-driven project on the creation of indicators for arts & design research output assessment are discussed.FindingsThe findings accentuate the importance of allowing an assessment culture to emerge from practitioners themselves, instead of imposing ill-suited methods borrowed from established scientific evaluation models (Biggs & Karlsson, 2011)—notwithstanding the practical difficulties it generates. They point to the potential of stakeholder-driven approaches for artistic research, which benefits from constructing a shared metadiscourse among its practitioners regarding the continuities and discontinuities between “artistic” and “traditional” research, and the communal goals and values that guide its knowledge production (Biggs & Karlsson, 2011; Hellström, 2010; Ysebaert & Martens, 2018).Research limitationThe central limitation of the study is that it focuses exclusively on the “Architecture & Design” panel of the project, and does not account for intra-disciplinary complexities in output assessment.Practical implicationsThe goal of the research project is to create a robust assessment system for arts & design research in Flanders, which may later guide similar international projects.Originality/valueThis study is currently the only one to consider the productive potential of (collaborative) PRFSs for artistic research.

Disclosing and Evaluating Artistic Research

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PurposeThis study expands on the results of a stakeholder-driven research project on quality indicators and output assessment of art and design research in...

Disclosing and Evaluating Artistic Research

Article Category: Research Paper

Published Online: Aug 30, 2019

Page range: 35 - 54

Received: Jun 07, 2019

Accepted: Jul 22, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2019-0014

Keywords
Artistic research, Output registration, Performance-based Research Funding Systems (PRFSs), Stakeholder-driven Evaluation Model

© 2019 Florian Vanlee, Walter Ysebaert, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Disclosing and Evaluating Artistic Research

Article Category: Research Paper

Published Online: Aug 30, 2019

Page range: 35 - 54

Received: Jun 07, 2019

Accepted: Jul 22, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2019-0014

KeywordsArtistic research, Output registration, Performance-based Research Funding Systems (PRFSs), Stakeholder-driven Evaluation Model

© 2019 Florian Vanlee, Walter Ysebaert, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Artistic research, Output registration, Performance-based Research Funding Systems (PRFSs), Stakeholder-driven Evaluation Model