Paper Short Abstract:

The presentation explores the impact of covid-19, in its temporal scale, on the methodologies that were brought into play in the research of a group of students who developed their final degree projects during the quarantine.

Paper Abstract:

The presentation explores the impact of covid-19, in its temporal scale, on the methodologies that were brought into play in the research of a group of design students who developed their final degree projects during the quarantine. We ask what a variation in the experience of time meant for the projects that were being carried out during the pandemic, how the experience of the world affected the course of the research and vice versa, and whether there is anything we can learn from what happened. It is argued, among other things, that the pandemic generated a slowdown phenomenon that we have related to temporary experiences that can be read as a flight from hegemonic neoliberal regimes of care. We also propose the idea that these temporal distortions were a queer event that led to research that has focused on the doing of its own which relates to the production of process-centred research and the development of self-reflexive practices.