How to use this workbook

Critical reflection on materials document practical experiments- materials line the different voices

Practice experiments and theoretical notions strengthen your position

Interrelation and overlapping various and collective exercises are designed to dialogue experiences and knowledge

What are the enabling constraints within this workbook?

Circle of Doing Research
Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam
DBKV
Research Station WdKA
Zoom-In methods, sources and spaces
for artistic – and design research

This workbook examines practice-based research methods, practices and methodologies through a series of playful explorations in thinking-making-doing.








Methods in the making of this book include collecting and reviewing course descriptions, cut and paste website creation, non-formal conversations, textual explorations, diverse readings of associated literature and the experimental mapping of emerging concepts and approaches.
For example, by adapting the work of Tom Phillips (2016), the “General Introduction to practice & research seminar trimester one” were redacted to reveal new understandings. These ‘instructions’ or ‘scores’ then provide new directions and interpretations of the intention on the course






 

How do you DO research?

Documentation is an essential aspect of art education research. It provides a clear record of the process and observations of a research project, enabling others to replicate or build on the study. Documenting the research process also helps researchers to identify their strengths and weaknesses, which helps them to improve their future work. Additionally, documentation is critical in evaluating the quality of the research and assessing the effectiveness of the teaching methods used.

Art education research often involves complex visual and artistic elements that are difficult to describe in words alone. Therefore, detailed documentation, including photographs, video recordings, and sketches, can provide valuable insights into the research project and support the findings.

In summary, documentation plays a crucial role in art education research by providing a comprehensive and accessible record of the research process, practical engagements, observations of people, places and things together with the findings and futures of the research.

Documentation in your research

Questions, instructions or scores (in the green text boxes) are activations to provide alternative insights and directions of the research methods presented.

The GREEN BOXES

Activations

Referencing the experimental and playful spirit of Fluxus (Miles & Springgay, 2020), the instructions provide a set of enabling constraints (Springgay & Truman, 2017) from which to explore from and activate new knowledge.

The book is a gesture to rethinking method and its agency to produce knowledge (Manning, 2015), “(rather than simply reproduce it)”( 2015, 62) (parentheses original)

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“Sensory engagement with the world and an attention to the concept of embodiment, and felt and apprehended understanding of evolving matter. “
Pink, 2009

“Collaborative interdisciplinary research processes..unsettle assumptions about expertise…This way of working is very different from linear models of research…Instead, these ways of conducting research are enmeshes, entangles and complex, and are associates with divergent outcomes as well as sometimes-difficult experiences and contrasting clusters of ideas.”
Pahl, K. 2017, p215

Use the questions, instructions and scores within the green text boxes to activate this workbook

Different educational positions are being occupied with knowledge to conduct practice based and theoretical knowledge.