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Creative Practice as Research: Discourse on MethodologyMain MenuContentsIntroductionThe Practitioner Model of Creative Cognition: A Potential Model for Creative Practice-Based ResearchModel research methods relevant for creative practice-based research projectsApplication of the Practitioner Model of Creative CognitionCommunity Discourse: Your Practice Research ModelsResources for Conducting and Teaching Practice-Based ResearchAbout the AuthorLyle Skains8ec9a01530aed114a2d78c359a32a6560b8c2714The Disrupted Journal of Media Practice
Summary & Contents
1media/BGMain.png#fff2016-01-14T14:13:09-08:00Lyle Skains8ec9a01530aed114a2d78c359a32a6560b8c27147703133plain2244842016-06-27T06:40:17-07:00Lyle Skains8ec9a01530aed114a2d78c359a32a6560b8c2714While practice-based research is an established methodological approach in fields such as medicine, design, and engineering, it is relatively new to research in the Creative Arts. Current practitioner-researchers, in the forms of students, postgraduates, early career researchers, and researchers changing fields, are offered few practical approaches to research design that incorporates creative practice as research. Yet the number of postgraduate programs, new lectureships, and new research departments in creative practice (from writing to filmmaking to fine art) continues to grow. As creative practice expands as a field of academic research, there is a need to establish an ongoing discourse on and resource for appropriate practice-based methodologies.
This project is a living discussion of practice-based methodologies in creative practice research, included as part of the special issue The Disrupted Journal of Media Practice. As such, it includes:
An overview of the different types of practice-related research currently undertaken across a variety of disciplines, open to revision per the online commentary and discussion it inspires
A discussion of the purposes and applications of creative practice research, expanded by further examples in ongoing commentary and links
An example methodology: the "Practitioner Model of Creative Cognition" the project leader developed through creative practice research. This example links to a sample research project, including the creative components (digital fiction), as well as published journal articles disseminating the outcomes of these methods.
This section includes space for listing and linking to other models that have been and/or are being developed.
Exercises for designing creative practice research projects (useful for teaching/supervision), again with space for additional suggestions.
Each section of this project is open to discourse through both the comment features on each page, as well as Hypothes.is. Readers are encouraged to comment upon and discuss each section, to propose alternative and expanded methods, and to link to published research that has explicitly employed creative practice methods.
The purpose of this foundation text and ensuing discourse and annotation is to provide a practical resource for creative practice research methods. Ideally, this resource will be ongoing, open to revision and updates, in order to keep up with this continually evolving field of research.
12016-01-14T11:44:58-08:00Lyle Skains8ec9a01530aed114a2d78c359a32a6560b8c2714References and Resources9plain2016-06-27T06:39:35-07:00Lyle Skains8ec9a01530aed114a2d78c359a32a6560b8c2714
12016-01-14T14:30:04-08:00Lyle Skains8ec9a01530aed114a2d78c359a32a6560b8c2714About the Author7plain2016-01-17T12:25:47-08:00Lyle Skains8ec9a01530aed114a2d78c359a32a6560b8c2714