Abstract This training explores how situated creative agency emerges through context-driven and practice-led conceptualisation processes in artistic research. Drawing on case studies from Vietnamese art and design education (including projects engaging with ethnic minority cultures, heritage practices, and hybrid visual identities) the workshop reframes conceptualisation not as idea generation, but as epistemic positioning. Through guided exercises, participants contrast decontextualised project framing with context-embedded approaches, map their own cultural and methodological positioning, and examine how visual, material, and embodied knowledges shape artistic stance. The session foregrounds cultural hybridity as both tension and resource, highlighting how agency is negotiated across local traditions, globalised aesthetics, and institutional research frameworks. Participants produce a visual conceptual map linking context, method, and agency, generating transferable models for artistic research across diverse cultural settings.

Keywords: Situated Creative Agency, Context-Driven Conceptualisation, Artistic Research Pedagogy, Cultural Hybridity, Practice-Led Methodologies

Structure (~90 minutes)
1. Introduction: Framing, Case studies, Key terms clarified
2. Contrast Exercise: Participants contextually reframe a project twice
3. Positioning Mapping: Guided scaffold to map context, influences, methods, and agency.
4. Sharing & Reflection

Alignment with SAR Conference:
This workshop responds directly to themes of endangered conceptual worlds and minoritised knowledges by examining how artistic conceptualisation processes sustain culturally situated forms of visual and material knowledge production. Through cases from Vietnam (particularly projects engaging in minorities’ contexts and hybrid visual cultures) the session highlights how agency is constructed within layered social, historical, and institutional conditions.