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Collaborative inquiry has grown in use and importance across academic disciplines. Researchers now regularly craft processes that bring together multiple stakeholders with varying perspectives to produce original actionable insights.
Creative Participatory Research: Experiments with Theory and Practice demonstrates how a radical understanding of creativity is key to collective, ethical and innovative inquiry. The textbook moves beyond standard frameworks to offer a novel and disruptive guide to participatory practice. It includes:
• accessible introductions to diverse philosophical concepts, with no assumption of prior study;
• clear connections between theory and method, showing how each principle translates into practice; and
• reflective prompts that invite readers on their own creative journey of practice transformation.
Covering both the perils and the possibilities of participatory research, this invaluable text provides philosophical and practical inspiration for readers who wish to transform their practice and create genuine, long-lasting change.
"This book gives a fresh perspective to community-based creative participatory research. It makes an important contribution to this increasingly popular means of researching by tearing up templated approaches and encouraging researchers of all stages to start from the context of their projects and explore materials, more than human spaces, places and senses. It invites the reader to move away from notions of things being fixed and replicable, an approach that feels refreshing” Dylan Yamada-Rice, Professor of Immersive Storytelling & Experience Design Centre for Blended Realities
"Ian Robson has written a beautiful and inspiring guide to creative participatory research, offering wonderful explanations of philosophical ideas that will transform how you look at the world, and your work. Robson conveys complex ideas with gentle clarity in this thoughtful, delightful book." David Gauntlett, Author of ‘Making is Connecting’ and Canada Research Chair in Creative Practice, Toronto Metropolitan University.
1. The Perils and Possibilities of Partipatory Reesearch
2. Reconsidering Creativity
3. The Creative Imagination and Participatory Research
4. Rhizomatic Inquiry
5. Working with Difference
6. Experimentation and Emergence
7. Creative Participatory Research as an Ethical and Relational Practice
8. Becoming-Creative