The Next Layer research day. This one day workshop "from taxi to praxi and back again" uncovers and examines some of the challenges and opportunities faced when creative artistic practice is undertaking research. The aim of the workshop is to address and discuss some of the generic, rather than discipline-specific, challenges of undertaking practice-based research within academia.

This one day workshop "from taxi to praxi and back again" uncovers and examines some of the challenges and opportunities faced when creative artistic practice is undertaking research. Independent artists and free and open source software developers have made more rapid advances than those working within the more traditionally minded arts and humanities departments in academia. The challenge is now to find ways of re-embedding useful aspects of free and open source methodologies in academic practice based arts and technology research. How do we incorporate and negotiate research in those areas of work which are strongly inter- and trans-disciplinary? The aim of the workshop is to address and discuss some of the generic, rather than discipline-specific, challenges of undertaking practice-based research within academia. The workshop will draw on open and collaborative (FLOSS) methodologies by proposing and discussing a diverse range of taxonomies and practices thus "from taxi to praxi and back again". http://www.thenextlayer.org (collaboration between Armin Medosch & Adnan Hadzi)