Camilla Groth
Doctor of Arts, Alumna
Dr. Camilla Groth is Associate Professor in Art, Design and Craft at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) Department of Visual and Performing Arts Education. She has a background in ceramic crafts with a Doctoral degree from Aalto University in Finland. Her research interests revolve around experiential and embodied knowledge and interdisciplinary collaboration and knowledge transfer. She is now also involved in a 4 year project: Maker-Centered Learning: Cultivating creativity in tomorrow’s schools (MAKER) which aims to enhance knowledge on how deliberate teaching for creativity can be realized in school makerspaces in Norway. This project has many connection points and synergies with the MakerStudioPeda project.
Camilla Groth defended her dissertation “Making sense through hands: Design and craft practice analysed as embodied cognition” in 2017. Her studies focused on experiential and embodied knowing in design and craft practice, and they contributed to the interdisciplinary Handling Mind Research Project (2012-16). Through her doctorate, she generated a theoretical understanding of design and craft thinking, embodied cognition and practice-led research methods. She has published on the subjects of research design, research methods and theory as well as on tactile communication and the transfer of tacit knowledge through embodied teaching.