Inquiry beyond
the classroom.

A conversation
can be a method.

Dis-Course offers an independent setting in which researchers and creative practitioners can share work, question assumptions and encounter approaches beyond their own disciplines. A presentation can make a process visible; a discussion can expose the choices, uncertainties and contexts that a finished work leaves out.

The platform brings theoretical inquiry into contact with making and lived experience. It values research communicated through images, objects, sound, performance and spatial practice, alongside written and spoken argument. Public dialogue allows these different forms to meet without requiring them to become interchangeable.

Its talks and panels are a space for research exchange, rather than a substitute for peer review. They provide opportunities to develop questions, invite responses and establish connections that may lead to further work.

Across visual
and spatial culture.

The archive reveals recurring questions about how creative work represents the world and participates in it. These themes emerge from the programme’s contributions, rather than defining a closed set of disciplines.

Learning through encounter.

Dis-Course connects formal study with the wider creative and research community. Meeting a practitioner, hearing how a project developed and asking questions about its decisions gives students access to ways of working that cannot be conveyed through a finished image or a reading alone.

This approach draws on Simon Pruciak’s experience of teaching in higher education since 2010 and developing co-curricular activities at the University for the Creative Arts. His research into their impact, undertaken during his Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education, informs the programme’s attention to learning beyond the formal curriculum.

That interest opens questions for continued inquiry: how encounters with visiting practitioners shape students’ thinking; how public discussion relates to independent creative work; and how participation can connect students with communities beyond their course. Dis-Course provides a setting in which these questions can be explored through talks, panels, reflection and dialogue.

As a co-curricular resource, the programme can support preparation before a talk, discussion afterwards and reflective work within a student’s own practice. Students can connect a speaker’s methods with their projects, compare disciplinary perspectives and develop a more informed vocabulary for discussing their work.

Participation also offers experience of the public contexts in which creative work circulates. Listening, framing a question and responding to an unfamiliar position are part of professional and intellectual development. These opportunities complement the curriculum while remaining open to audiences beyond it.

Return. Compare.
Follow a connection.

The archive can be explored by academic year, topic, speaker or title. Individual event pages bring together a description, biographical context and original programme material. This makes it possible to trace an idea across contributions, place a practice in context and revisit the questions raised by an event.

Teachers can use the material to introduce case studies and frame discussion. Students and independent researchers can follow connections between practices and identify approaches relevant to their own work. The archive is intended to grow with recordings and additional materials when these are available.

Extend the exchange.

Dis-Course welcomes conversations with universities, cultural organisations, creative practitioners and researchers whose work connects with the programme’s questions. Contributions may take the form of a talk, a panel or a shared discussion around a developing project.

Online broadcasting will enable collaboration with institutions globally. Speakers visiting Alexander College will share their work with international audiences who can join the discussion remotely. Speakers elsewhere in the world will also contribute online to an audience gathered in Larnaca, bringing international research and practice into a local setting.

The expanding programme includes the humanities alongside art and culture. Two panels are planned in Larnaca, including a philosophy discussion with Dr Adonis Frangeskou. Specific institutional partnerships, participation arrangements and further research and educational activity will be announced as they develop.