Imagining, Documenting, and Reimagining the Everyday: DIY Technologies as the Catalyst for Crafting Interdisciplinary Composition

Benito Rodríguez, Victoria (2025) Imagining, Documenting, and Reimagining the Everyday: DIY Technologies as the Catalyst for Crafting Interdisciplinary Composition. Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University.

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Abstract

This portfolio of works highlights the creative possibilities embedded within the mundane aspects of our lives. I explore how art can emerge through interdisciplinary compositional methods obtained from observing and engaging with day-to-day activities. By focusing on the ordinary and the routine, these compositions demonstrate how DIY technologies – the accessible and intuitive tools of our daily life that we can operate ourselves – can inspire spontaneous artistic expression.

Through interdisciplinary compositions, the research conducts an examination of various aspects of everyday life, an area that we recognise and is well-supplied by intuitive sources of inspiration. DIY technologies around us can be conveniently used as vehicles for creation, while the authenticity inherent in daily life strongly stimulates artistic production.

Since the project began during the global pandemic in 2020 it has evolved dynamically, capturing how COVID-19 has transformed the way we observe, search for media and inspiration and create. The project emphasises the relationship between evolving situations and creative processes, establishing a foundation for the use of DIY technologies in various types of media. It encourages experimenting with compositional aesthetics based on the context of daily life and its DIY technologies, promoting intuitive artistic expression and celebrating the underlying capacity for creativity within our everyday lives

Item Type:	Thesis (Doctoral)
Dates:	Date Event 23 April 2025 Accepted
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Interdisciplinary, Composition, DIY, Everyday
Subjects:	CAH00 - multidisciplinary > CAH00-00 - multidisciplinary > CAH00-00-00 - multidisciplinary CAH25 - design, and creative and performing arts > CAH25-02 - performing arts > CAH25-02-02 - music
Divisions:	Doctoral Research College > Doctoral Theses Collection Faculty of Arts, Design and Media > Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Depositing User:	Louise Muldowney
Date Deposited:	13 May 2025 10:55
Last Modified:	13 May 2025 10:55
URI:	https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/16345