Research-Creation: Intervention, Analysis and “Family Resemblances”

Abstract

“Research-creation” is an emergent category within the social sciences and humanities that speaks to contemporary media experiences and modes of knowing. Research-creation projects typically integrate a creative process, experimental aesthetic component, or an artistic work as an integral part of a study. The focus of this article is how this practice contributes to the research agenda of the digital humanities and social sciences. We discuss how the term has been articulated in academic policy discourses and examine some prominent academic analyses that describe the practice of research-creation. We then unravel, enumerate, and expand upon the concept of research-creation from the purview of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s notion of “family resemblances” before moving to a discussion of four modes of research-creation: “research-for-creation,” “research-from-creation,” “creative presentations of research,” and finally “creation-as-research.”RÉSUMÉ La « recherche-création » est un domaine naissant en sciences humaines où l’on s’intéresse aux expériences médiatiques et aux manières de savoir contemporaines. Les projets de recherche-création comportent typiquement un processus créatif, une composante esthétique expérimentale ou une oeuvre artistique. Notre article porte sur la manière dont cette pratique contribue à l’agenda de recherche en digital humanities (« humanités numériques ») et en sciences humaines. Nous relevons comment les discours académiques sur les politiques ont traité de la recherche-création et examinons des analyses académiques importantes qui dressent le portrait de celle-ci. Ensuite, nous évaluons et élargissons ce concept en ayant recours à l’idée des « ressemblances de famille » telle que développée par Ludwig Wittgenstein, puis pour terminer nous commentons quatre modes de recherche-création : « la recherche pour la création », « la recherche à partir de la création », « les présentations de recherche créatives » et « la création sous forme de recherche ».

Performing Wellness: Playing in the Spaces Between Music Therapy and Music Performance Improvisation Practices

“…I intended for this project to uncover insights both inherent to the phenomenon itself and "unknowable by other means" (Seabrook & Arnason, 2010, abstract). Chapman and Sawchuck (2012) propose four overlapping ways of understanding research-creation. Two of these are particularly relevant to this concert: "research-forcreation" and "creation-as-research" (p. 15).…”

Mobility intersections: social research, social futures

“…We chart important emergent issue areas, such as data flows and their (im)mobilities; or the gendered, racialised, and differentially embodied (im)mobilities of inequality; the making of 'good mobilities' and 'good cities'; or the uneven mobilities of disaster vulnerability and climate adaptation. Here the mobilities paradigm intersects especially with disability studies (Parent 2013; Sawchuk 2014; Parent, this issue; Goggin, this issue); gender studies, critical race theory, and intersectional spatial formations of age, race, class, and sexuality (Cresswell 2006(Cresswell , 2016Sheller 2015;Nicholson and Sheller 2016;Nicholson, this issue;Murray et al, this issue); cultural theory, feminist cultural theory and research creation (Goggin 2011, Chapman andSawchuk 2012); and the multiple publics who are unequally involved in shaping futures in areas such as humanitarian response and crisis informatics (Palen et al 2009;Büscher et al 2014;Sheller 2013Sheller , 2016b.…”

“…Mobilities research is integral to a broader project of transforming the social sciences that is currently underway -of which public, inventive, co-creative and 'phronetic' or practically oriented 'prudent' forms of social science are other key examples (Burawoy 2005, Lury and Wakeford 2012, Hartswood et al 2002, Chapman and Sawchuk 2012, Flyvbjerg et al 2013Tyfield and Blok, this issue). Multiple points of convergence between mobilities research, engaged citizenship, science, technology, social science and design create opportunities and challenges for new ways of defining and doing responsible research and innovation (Owen, Macnaghten and Stilgoe 2012).…”

Creative Research Methodologies for Surveillance Studies

“…scholarly interventions provide spaces for contemplation, engagement, and circulation that often exceed the boundaries imposed by traditional scholarly methods (Chapman and Sawchuk 2012). My experience as an artist-scholar has led me to believe that research-creation invites spaces for collaboration and reflection while also encouraging critical engagement, social practice, and analysis beyond the creative process and its publication.…”

“…Knowledge production and research in academia is often led by collaboration between communities, disciplines, and subjects. As such, research-creation recognizes the importance and academic rigour that stems from collaborative work, by collaborating with technicians, scholars, artists, and disciplines (Chapman and Sawchuk 2012). Artist-scholars often work in collaboration with organizations and institutions, such as being invited to present at the Surveillance Studies Network conferences or publish in its journal.…”