Arts-based Methods in Socially Engaged Research Practice: A Classification Framework

Wang, Qingchun; Coemans, Sara; Siegesmund, Richard; Hannes, Karin

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“…With reference to Norris's [33] consideration of the various aims and objectives of arts-based education and research, this work was designed as a pedagogical encounter more than the production of a polished play. Arts-based research has emerged to work with complex social challenges in a way that realizes democratic processes, such as participation, between researcher and researched within research ( [34], p. 7) and has been engaged as an effective praxis in grappling with socio-ecological challenges (see, for example, [35]).…”

Section: Methodology For Engaged Research: Arts-based Participatory Imentioning

confidence: 99%

Making (Non)Sense of Urban Water Flows: Qualities and Processes for Transformative and Transgressive Learning Moments

James

2019

Sustainability

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Urban sustainability and justice depend upon the flow of water across complex urban space. Yet, the characteristics of urban space produce a fragmented sense of our water resources. Cape Town, South Africa, the context of this research, is one such city whose water challenges have been exacerbated by climate change-induced drought, to the extent that the city nearly shut off the water running to residents' taps. This context presents a particular challenge for the focus of this special issue, transformative and transgressive learning, an emerging arena of thought and practice concerned with learning processes that might foster more sustainable socio-ecological relations. The empirical material for this research draws from 12 arts-based inquiry workshops run with youth in an environmental organisation over four months, exploring a local water crisis. The data were generated through an engaged arts-based research process. The paper traces how transformative and transgressive learning in the context of urban water crisis might be characterised as making (non)sense by bringing the empirical material into dialogue with five entry points of transformative and transgressive learning literature rooted in Freirean educational praxis. This paper crafts and engages the concept of making (non)sense, a way of thinking about qualities and processes of learning praxis that responds to the wicked sustainability challenges we face today, particularly in terms of a Global South perspective. I argue such a praxis needs qualities and processes that disrupt and trouble the norm in the context of the socio-ecological challenge of urban water.

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Section: Methodology For Engaged Research: Arts-based Participatory Imentioning

confidence: 99%

Making (Non)Sense of Urban Water Flows: Qualities and Processes for Transformative and Transgressive Learning Moments

James

2019

Sustainability

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“…The third stage of this study was highly informed by the tradition of arts-based research, which can be seen as a transdisciplinary approach, situated at the intersection of the arts and social science research (Chilton & Leavy, 2014). More specifically, our way of working can be categorized as a hybrid between "art as research" -which refers to an approach in which research facilitates the study of the artistic process -and "art in research" -where art is actively applied by research participants as a creative process in one or more phases of a research process studying social phenomena (Wang, Coemans, Siegesmund, & Hannes, 2017).…”

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“…In the context of this study, art students were invited to make a work of art based upon their experiences of the walk, in close collaboration with the researchers. Art students were involved as co-researchers in the process, whereby the act of creating was simultaneously the act of researching the urban renewal area (Wang, Coemans, Siegesmund, & Hannes, 2017). Art students and researchers gathered multiple times to discuss sensory scholarship, to talk about their walking experiences, and to share interview transcripts, preliminary sketches, and images (see Figure 4).…”

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Making Sense of a Changing Neighborhood: Art Students’ Experiences of Place Explored Through a Material-Discursive Analytical Lens

Coemans

Vandenabeele

Hannes

2019

Art/Research International

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Sara Coemans is a PhD researcher at the Laboratory for Education and Society (Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences) of the University of Leuven. In her research, she explores the potential of arts-based and multi-sensory approaches to study the relationship between people and their surroundings.Joke Vandenabeele is associate professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences (and part of the Laboratory for Education and Society) of the University of Leuven. She has developed her educational research in relation to two important social issues: the issue of solidarity and the issue of sustainability. She uses an action research approach to foster, both empirically and theoretically, a reflection on how community education emerges from what people actually do together and also how the materiality of a particular practice is part of this specific togetherness. Making Sense of a Changing Neighborhood 505 Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal Volume 4 Issue 2, 2019Karin Hannes is associate professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences (Social Research Methodology Group) of the University of Leuven. Her main research interest is in developing, applying, and refining approaches to qualitative research. She is most known for her academic contributions in the area of qualitative evidence synthesis. On a primary research level, she has been focusing on the use and further development of arts-based, multi-sensory, and place-based research methods in the context of public health, social-cultural and social welfare practice.Abstract: Sensory research approaches are often used to study the relationship between people and their living environment. The type of data collected in such research projects poses analytical challenges. How do we best make sense of a body of visual, auditory, tactile data? How do such data contribute to our knowing? In this paper, we propose and illustrate an analytical apparatus for studying the complex entanglement of discursive and material aspects of sensorial experiences related to place. Place-interactive methods such as sensory go-along interviews with art students and voice-giving procedures through the making of art works formed the basis for the analysis.

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“…down into the recesses of our spirit where facts and figures cannot, and that it can call forth a response that will move us to better know and care for our collective and interconnected selves so that we can together fulfill our promise. Wang et al (2017) suggest different categories of arts-based research. One of these, Art as research, they define as a methodology in which "The act of creating is simultaneously the act of researching," a "meaning-making processes," to make "sense of the world" (p. 15).…”

Section: Unfolding Experience Through Arts-based Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Demon of Hope: An Arts-based Infused Meditation on Race, Disability, and the Researcher’s Complicity with Injustice

Fellner

2019

Art/Research International

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My ethical stance demands that my research mutually benefit all research participants and that it should serve to reverse systemic policies of anti-blackness that permeate the educational system in the United States. Through publications and similar academic activities, however, my research advances my own career, but it is doubtful that it significantly advances the trajectories of the students with whom I work. Indeed, it could be argued that this imbalance in benefits advances the very system of white dominance that I claim to contest. In this arts-based, auto-ethnographic study, I document how, through the creation of pastel drawings and digital collage making, I seek to make sense of my compromised role as a white researcher in communities of color. I focus on my recent research with an 18-year-old African-American woman who was diagnosed with ADHD in the 5th grade.

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Arts-based Methods in Socially Engaged Research Practice: A Classification Framework

Cited by 129 publications

References 45 publications

Making (Non)Sense of Urban Water Flows: Qualities and Processes for Transformative and Transgressive Learning Moments

Making (Non)Sense of Urban Water Flows: Qualities and Processes for Transformative and Transgressive Learning Moments

Making Sense of a Changing Neighborhood: Art Students’ Experiences of Place Explored Through a Material-Discursive Analytical Lens

The Demon of Hope: An Arts-based Infused Meditation on Race, Disability, and the Researcher’s Complicity with Injustice

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