Healey, Michael and Esson, Michael (2011) The art of reconstruction. [Show/Exhibition]

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The ‘Art of Reconstruction Research Project’ is where re-skilling of plastic surgeons by artists is already in an embryonic phase. In integrating the required network of associated skills, expertise and experience, the research collaboration brings together artists within The Drawing Research Group of The Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design (AAD) and the distinguished work of Professor Mike Esson, Director, The International Drawing Research Institute (IDRI). These will be working with members of the UK Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRA) and members of the Royal College of Surgeons through a comprehensive workshop and seminar programme. Building from the success and feedback of an initial provisional workshop for surgeons in November 2009 this project is structured as a pilot study to develop a new research network that will extend the application of the visual arts in medicine enabling the development and treatise of the intersection of art and science in respect of the new practice based ideas and concepts currently formulating in plastic surgery. This pilot study represents the first “substantiation" stage within this overarching objective and 4 strategic activities are identified: Professor Mike Esson 1. Design and delivery of a three day comprehensive workshop for surgeons in the field of reconstructive and cosmetic surgery; integrating both training and investigation of aesthetic principles, questioning canons of proportion and beauty, together with the introduction of practical skills through the languages of drawing and sculpture. Through established drawing and modelling disciplines and techniques surgeons will be introduced to formal aesthetic principles and strategies for dealing with interpretation of structure and space. It will provide an accessible, tactile and visual experience, the focus of which deals with proportion, negative space, contour, methods of graphic representation, and in three dimensions; notions of deconstruction and reconstruction. There will also be an investigation of the dynamic geometric solids of facial features and an understanding visual tension. 2. A two weeks public exhibition following the workshop, providing additional feedback and consultation to provide the starting point of the critical review assessment. 6 month follow up and review phase enabling a qualitative analyses of the benefits and outcomes of the thematic approaches adopted within the workshop. 3. A one day seminar, inviting all workshop participants and invited specialists and academics midway through the review phase to assess and develop the thematic research questions in respect of a roadmap for further progress and uptake. 4. This will be closely followed by a smaller workshop involving key partners and participants at the project end to further develop the thematic areas and best practice indicators against the perceived benefits.

Item Type:	Show/Exhibition
Additional Information:	The ‘Art of Reconstruction Research Project’ is where re-skilling of plastic surgeons by artists is already in an embryonic phase. In integrating the required network of associated skills, expertise and experience, the research collaboration brings together artists within The Drawing Research Group of The Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design (AAD) and the distinguished work of Professor Mike Esson, Director, The International Drawing Research Institute (IDRI). These will be working with members of the UK Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRA) and members of the Royal College of Surgeons through a comprehensive workshop and seminar programme. Building from the success and feedback of an initial provisional workshop for surgeons in November 2009 this project is structured as a pilot study to develop a new research network that will extend the application of the visual arts in medicine enabling the development and treatise of the intersection of art and science in respect of the new practice based ideas and concepts currently formulating in plastic surgery. This pilot study represents the first “substantiation" stage within this overarching objective and 4 strategic activities are identified: Professor Mike Esson 1. Design and delivery of a three day comprehensive workshop for surgeons in the field of reconstructive and cosmetic surgery; integrating both training and investigation of aesthetic principles, questioning canons of proportion and beauty, together with the introduction of practical skills through the languages of drawing and sculpture. Through established drawing and modelling disciplines and techniques surgeons will be introduced to formal aesthetic principles and strategies for dealing with interpretation of structure and space. It will provide an accessible, tactile and visual experience, the focus of which deals with proportion, negative space, contour, methods of graphic representation, and in three dimensions; notions of deconstruction and reconstruction. There will also be an investigation of the dynamic geometric solids of facial features and an understanding visual tension. 2. A two weeks public exhibition following the workshop, providing additional feedback and consultation to provide the starting point of the critical review assessment. 6 month follow up and review phase enabling a qualitative analyses of the benefits and outcomes of the thematic approaches adopted within the workshop. 3. A one day seminar, inviting all workshop participants and invited specialists and academics midway through the review phase to assess and develop the thematic research questions in respect of a roadmap for further progress and uptake. 4. This will be closely followed by a smaller workshop involving key partners and participants at the project end to further develop the thematic areas and best practice indicators against the perceived benefits.
Keywords:	plastic surgery, reconstruction, surgery, Drawing, clay modelling, bmjlink, bmjcheck
Subjects:	W Creative Arts and Design > W900 Others in Creative Arts and Design A Medicine and Dentistry > A990 Medicine and Dentistry not elsewhere classified
Divisions:	College of Arts > Faculty of Art, Architecture & Design > Lincoln School of Art & Design
Depositing User:	Victoria Briggs
Date Deposited:	03 Aug 2011 15:49
Last Modified:	30 Apr 2013 16:48
URI:	http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/4596

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