The objectives of this research are twofold, firstly, to analyse how departments of art and art practitioners are integrated within academia, and to scrutinise this coexistence, by focusing on emerging issues due to the nature of Art as “specific knowledge” thus, an assessment of its eventual mismatch within the generic framework of a traditional academic context. Consequently, this article exposes both frictions and dilemmas witnessed, as well as elaborates on the specificities of the Art knowledge and associated visual creativity and thinking. The study used qualitative analysis to explore the topic of the integration of art departments within academic settings. In this article, ten Visual Art students from three Brazilian universities are interviewed between May and August of 2022 about their perspectives on their studies and whether they advocate artistic research. The results shed light on how artistic practice is viewed as research and demonstrate how the traditional research outcome affects art students in their art production, academic and artistic identities, and perceptions and expectations.

For more than a year and a half, educators and students have been navigating the stormy seas of remote teaching-learning. After months of the coronavirus epidem For more than a year and a half, educators and students have been navigating the stormy seas of remote teaching-learning. After months of the coronavirus epidem

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This paper reconstructs mykoholz, a mid-20th-century East German, white-rot–mediated bio-modification of solid hardwood, as a missing link in fungal materials engineering. From patents, factory records, declassified reports, and recent literature, we recover process parameters (end-grain inoculation; 3-4 mo incubation in controlled vaults; staged drying/impregnation) and performance outcomes (75-90% density reduction, high porosity, stress relief) enabling uses from pencils to glass-molding and acoustic parts. We benchmark mykoholz against modern mycelium-based composites (MBCs) across substrate, process control, mechanics, energy, scalability, and environmental profile, showing complementarity: mykoholz reconfigures solid wood in situ, whereas MBCs grow moldable composites from lignocellulosic waste. We trace the 1965 industrial decline to quality variance and insufficient climate control, and show how AI-assisted bioprocessing, climate-controlled incubation, and selective delignification could resolve these limits. We propose hybrid fungal systems, and a research agenda covering standardized replication, LCA, acoustic/thermal benchmarks, and pilot-scale automation, positioning mykoholz as low-energy circular bioengineering with actionable principles for scalable, eco-compatible materials.