Imaginaries of Value: Articulating, dis-articulating and re-articulating economic and aesthetic value in contemporary art and design work.

This theme investigates imaginaries of value in relation to the “globalisation-from-above” of art and design. We explore how value is imagined, performed and given material form in the globalised world of art and design work, by focusing on paper as a creative and administrative material interface used to produce and circulate value norms, ideas and practices. Two themes, titled Site and Mobility, reflect the two sides of globalised art and design. In different cases we explore on how paper is used to produce aesthetic, organizational and economic value and their imaginaries of value will be re-articulated through the artistic production of microhistories throughout the whole research process.

The theme is articulated in a series of overarching conversations developed at the intersection between the notions of imaginaries and value, in relation to art and design work. These conversations develop through interdisciplinary encounters between fine art, design, cultural studies, economics, organization studies, legal studies.