Doing Research with the Arts as Methodological Practice

This fully online course positions doing research with the arts as a rigorous and transformative research methodology. The course is designed to develop the ability to articulate, document and critically and ethically reflect about the methodological level of own and others' doing research with the arts. Moving beyond art as mere representation, participants will work with artistic processes—material, symbolic, and embodied—as tools for generating new knowledge.

Knowledge

The candidate has

• has expert understanding of doing research with the arts as methodological practice
• advanced knowledge of established and emerging arts-informed methods
• expert insights into how meaning-making emerges through embodied and performative acts through doing research with the arts
• advanced knowledge about the ethical, reflexive, and participatory dimensions of creative inquiry across disciplines

Skills

The candidate can

• design and carry out research projects that integrate artistic methods with other research traditions and their critical theoritization
• generate, interpret, and communicate rich data from creative processes in ways that are academically robust and accessible to diverse audiences
• is able to language and write with and from the artistic research project enhancing the complexity and polyvocality of research methodology.
• develop outputs through a digital exposition that engage stakeholders both within and beyond the academy, fostering impactful public dialogue about the subject of inquiry

General competences

The candidate has

• advanced ability to bridge theory, practice, and public engagement in interdisciplinary research settings
• advanced competence in dialoguing with theory, understood as ways of infusing and cross-fertilizing the artistic research project with new perspectives, including necessary friction.
• expert capacity to translate creative inquiry methods across disciplines, and contexts
• thorough reflexive understanding of how research interventions can shape, transform and engage with society

The course combines practical and theoretical learning through:

• Creative digital workshops using a broader range of creative methods, integrating performative theory with creative practice
• Collaborative dialogues and peer-supervision
• Digital sharing of process and outcomes, fostering constructive peer feedback
• Reflective journals documenting artistic, conceptual, and methodological insights
• Reading and thinking with theory