research

Codarts is a renowned contemporary professional university for the arts. Research is one of its core activities. This research contributes to the quality of the study programmes and to the professionality of the teachers. It vouches for new developments in the education and enlarges the working field of graduates.

Professorships are centres of innovation: new knowledge leads to renewal of the education and the research practice. Having one’s own practice-based research is essential. To this end, the professors at Codarts form a circle of experts which consists of teachers and others who have earned their spurs in the area of research or in the professional field and in this way can give new impulses to the research practice and the education.

As a contemporary metropolitan arts university Codarts is convinced that the arts and artists cannot break free from their physical and social existence. In the vision of Codarts, the (future) artist and arts teacher is a person of flesh and blood who functions within a given social context.

The first consideration is translated by the professional university into the research line of well-being. Here the emphasis is on the individual physical and mental factors which further an optimal functioning in the professional practice, or might stand in the way.

The second consideration is translated by the professional university into a line of research which has the social position of the artist as its topic. The point of departure here is that the artist does not assume a passive attitude concerning developments in the market, but becomes actively involved in the social debate, using the means offered by the artistic discipline.

Codarts has three operational professorships:
Sustainable Performance by professor Frank Heckman
Present Practice, Praxis of Presence by professor Micha Hamel
One Of A Kind by professor Jiří Kylián

Concluded professorships are:
World Music by professor Joep Bor
Excellence and Well being in the Performing Arts by professor Anna Aalten
Community Arts by professor Peter van den Hurk

The research results of the professorships can be found on the professorship pages of this website.