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*CATC HUB WAYS OF WORKING*
Migration stories are skin memories (Reference: Ahmed, 2000)
• Migration experiences bound up in multilingualism & multisensory life experience
• Accounts can evade full linguistic description & intellectual analysis
• Integrating skin memories – embodied data?• Don’t presuppose linguistic/bodily integrity
PEDAGOGY-BASED RESEARCH
Example 1: Freedom From Torture (Tawona)Example 2: Our Stories Documentary Series (Gameli)
Methodological Challenges(Reference: Ellsworth, 2004)
Pedagogy-Based Research
‘Traditional’ Research
• Sensation
• Subjects of Experience
• The Affective
• Learning as Play and Pleasure
• Language
• Objects of Experience
• The Rational
• Knowledge as Tool for Prediction and Control
Ethical dimensions: Precarity(Reference: Butler, 2011)
• Unexpectedness in research • ‘Unfinished’ participant accounts point to precarity• Immediacy of relationships vs. moral endpoints• Ethical paradox (don’t gloss over)• ‘Safe spaces’ in research?
Opportunity for ‘acts of making’ & creative collaboration on participants' termsExample 1: Music ability (Gameli)Example 2: Outtakes from ‘Making of’ (Katja) http://vimeo.com/75256090
The Body as a Site of Knowledge(Reference: Levin & Greenwood, 2001)
• Decentred methodology (Phipps, 2013)• Space for diverse agendas & unexpected
narratives• Measures ethical and pedagogical impact• Mode of collection and consumption of data
vs. description of modes of encounters• Asserts pedagogical stance (Ahmed-quote)Example: Community performance as a response to engagement performance /Creating knowledge with participants (Gameli)
Creative methods: a site of production
• Acknowledge poetics and fictionality of life• Liberation from explanatory models• Research ‘in-between’• Research as Poetic Sharing vs. linguistic
integrity
Collaborative narration of reality – porous data
Example: Adinkra symbols for poetic sharing of self (Cecilia)
Adinkra symbols for poetic sharing(Reference: Naa Densua-Cecila’s designs)
• Adinkra and similar symbols system as a creative resource.
• Possibilities for multilingual engagement at both textual and visual levels through the names, meanings, of the symbols and also the proverbs and philosophic representations each symbol perform
CATC-RMTC Overlap(Reference: Hub documents)
• Collaboration, Co-creation, Reflexivity• Critical pedagogy – modes of engagement• Acknowledging ‘Life Narratives’• Sustainable research practice• (Creative) Puzzles & The Unexpected • Focus on Research Encounters – Spaces for
Exchange
Creating Synthesis: Creative Methods in your research?
DISCUSSION POINTS:• Where do creative methods fit into your
research environment/ your ways of working with people? (Reflection, collection, dissemination …)
• Is a successful integration of creative methods case study/hub or ‘research culture’ specific?
THANK YOU – DANKE – AKPE
Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) through the Translating Cultures Programme [grant reference AH/L006936/1]