How did other artists do their work? Did they experiment and reproduce their results again, exactly, or change things up. Testing, gathering materials is a type of research.
What was involved with the collaborators when graphic novels went to moving image? Communications and conversations are part of research- detail interactions with Deb
Why might artists and designers do research? Find out where they fit in the scheme of things. Has it already been done and how, build on what's out there.
As an artist/practitioner, I will take up multiple roles through the course of a project: interviewer, academic, hunter/gatherer, maker
Research approaches
scientific
naturalistic
qualitative- study things in natural settings
artistic methodology
pluralist
multi-method technique
responsive
acknowledges the complexity and real experience and practice
writing to examine other fields and make sensible connections
heuristic approach is: an internal search to discover nature and meaning of experience and develop methods and procedures for further research.
connection what is out there and how I respond to it.
Phases
- initial engagement
- immersion
- incubation
- illumination
- creative synthesis
not objective form of research
indications of heuristic method
- discover, rather than prove, something
- can map journey and stuff that didn't work
- timeline not smooth
practice-led inquiry
keep research methodology relevant to practitioners
decide what is knowable thorugh research
how different from usual studio activity?
- disciplined approach and plans clear objective and aims
- work open to scrutiny
- employ active documentation
practitioner is the research
interaction of researcher and research acknowledged
methods include
- making
- sketchbook
- concept mapping
- interviews and questionnaires
co-researcher and collaborator
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