About ADRI
The Art & Design Research Institute (ADRI) is the home of research in art, design, visual culture and electronic arts, comprising world leading research and innovative practice at Middlesex University.
Art and Design Research at Middlesex rated “internationally excellent” and “world leading”.
We have a vibrant community of over fourty research students pursuing a range of projects in the history, practice and theory of art and design. Students are encouraged to work collaboratively, and we currently have projects with the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture (MoDA), National Maritime Museum, Sir John Soane's Museum and Tate.
ADRI has several staff-led research clusters:
- Making Places
- Art Practice as Investigation
- CREATE/Feminisms
- Diasporic & Transcultural Practices
- Electronic and Digital Arts
- Science Fiction
- Socially Engaged Practices
- Visual Culture and Curating
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Anthony Iles: Housing and Regeneration Struggles...
26 Oct, 29 & 30 Nov 2017, South Bank University

Katy Deepwell: A Feminist Perspective on Dmitri...
12 Dec 2017, Calvert 22, London

Conceptualism – Intersectional Readings,...
December 7–9, 2017 Van Abbemuseum

Kokoli and Deepwell: A Feminist Space at Leeds
16-17 Dec 2017, University of Leeds.

CfP: MoDA Material Culture Research Forum 2018
Deadline: 11th December 2017
Latest Projects

Black Artists and Modernism
Sonia Boyce and susan lok

Neelam Raina: The Value of Culture in Conflict
PACCS Conflict Theme Innovation Awards

'Public Programming?' documentation of study day
30 June 2016, Middlesex University

Vlad Morariu curates Collection Collective....
10.10. - 11.11.17 tranzit/sk, Bratislava