In the 2026/27 winter semester, the Gemstone and Jewellery Campus in Idar-Oberstein presents the interdisciplinary lecture series “Delightful Doing 2”, open to students, members of the university community and interested guests.
Organised as part of Idar-Oberstein FormDiskurs, a cultural programme fostering dialogue between academia, the arts and the public, the series brings together artistic, academic and interdisciplinary perspectives. Each winter semester, “Delightful Doing” explores a new theme connecting artistic practice with broader cultural, social and intellectual questions.
Artistic Practice: Ways of Questioning the World
What does it mean to conduct research through artistic practice? What kinds of knowledge can emerge from it? Artistic processes are often open and unpredictable, with outcomes and effects that cannot always be anticipated. This openness can create new possibilities for insight and raise questions that established methods may overlook.
Delightful Doing 2 approaches these questions from different perspectives. The four lectures do not follow a fixed definition or a shared understanding of artistic research. Instead, they explore possible answers to an open question: What can be discovered through different approaches to artistic practice, and how might they expand our understanding of what research can be?
The lectures are held in English and are free of charge.
Location: Gemstone and Jewellery Campus, Saarstraße 2, 55743 Idar-Oberstein
Speakers and Dates:
- 28.10.2026, 6:30pm – Jürgen Krause „Before the Work Begins“
- 11.12.2026, 6:30pm – Nikolas Papadimitriou, Akis Goumas & Biljana Klekachkoska „The Productive Unknown“
- 13.01.2027, 6:30pm – Silvia Henke „Rethinking Artistic Research“
- 20.01.2027, 6:30pm – Patrícia Domingues & Edu Tarín „From Practice to Research – and Back“
Organiser: Julia Wild
@juelwild Further information can be found on our website:
https://www.hochschule-trier.de/en/gestaltung/es/studium/extra/studium-generale
@campusidaroberstein @hochschule_trier @campus_gestaltung_trier @npapad2007 @goumasakis @bbozzana @silvia.barbara.henke @patricia.c.c.domingues @edu.tarin @juelwild