REACH, Research-creation: collaborative practices in art and history

School life
REACH is one of 15 thematic research training programs offered by the Graduate School of theUniversité Grenoble Alpes (UGA), welcoming students at Master 1 level and above. French and foreign students wishing to become researchers, to train them in creative research. REACH brings together the arts, history, literature and languages in a unique disciplinary approach.
Training, conceived as a minor, will complement existing master's degrees with experimental forms of collaborative working (exhibitions, films, performances, digital museums, creative writing...) that will enrich the circulation of knowledge and know-how between university and society. Courses will be offered in English and French.

REACH is aimed at students applying for one of UGA's five Master's degrees in Human and Social Sciences (SHS):
  • Master's degree in artistic creation (CA) : Performing arts course, Film studies course,
  • Master Arts, Littératures, Civilisations (ALC): Literature: Criticism and Creation (LCC), Comparatism, Imagination and Socio-anthropology (CIS) and Sciences of Antiquity (SDA),
  • Master Langues, Littératures, Civilisations Étrangères et Régionales (LLCER ): Italian and French Studies, Anglophone Studies and Hispanic Studies,
  • Master's degree in History : History, cultures, politics and international exchanges from the Middle Ages to the present day, Applied History: society, environment and territories, and Sciences of Antiquity (SDA),
  • Master of Art History: History, Technique and Theory of the Visual Arts, Museums, Exhibitions and Heritage, and Sciences of Antiquity (SDA).

Themes

Over the next two years, the REACH minor will focus on the following themes What's next? The factory of the future.
What answers can the arts and culture provide to the big questions facing us in this post-war world, in which it seems so difficult to project ourselves? As Edgard Morin put it, "culture is the social bond itself". What kind of impetus can it give to this common destiny towards which we are heading, and in what forms?

The new REACH minor will focus on how the arts can make the new situation on earth more sensitive to humanity, and will question the artistic and critical forms that enable us to think about the future. This creative research work will take the form of a collective production by the students at the end of the second year, which will narrate, symbolize and question ecological, socio-economic, migratory and democratic issues, through interartistic practices involving the body, voice, writing, staging, image and sound...

This project is hosted by MaCI, House of Creation and InnovationThe new building, which will open in 2020, is designed to combine training and research.

Video presentation

Updated May 16, 2022