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How Artistic Practice Can Benefit Research-Creation

Research-Creation: Critique, Care, and Collaboration through Creative Practice

By foregrounding lived experiences with research-creation in practice, this course aims to highlight the possibilities, as well as the limitations, of research-creation.

Course description

Research-creation is an approach to research that engages artistic expression, scholarly investigation, curiosity, and experimentation. In practice, this means that research topics are selected and explored through a creation process, such as photography, the production of a film or video, performance or installation, sound-work, zine, recipe, or multimedia arts/texts.

Research-creation is important in a variety of fields and, in recent years, universities have used it to boost their public profiles and promote community-engaged collaborations. That said, the increasing institutionalization of research-creation must be approached critically, and situated within a broader context of power relations within academia, education, and research. In this course, research-creation will thus be framed as an intervention and invitation for scholars to push disciplinary boundaries, challenge taken-for-granted assumptions about what academic work entails, and consider ways to make their work more sustainable, accessible, and responsive to issues concerning social justice.

This summer, the course will have a special focus on relationships, mental health, conflict in collaborations, and the messiness of co-creative work. We will draw on specific examples from queer, anti-colonial, migrant justice, and Palestinian liberation movements. The course will incorporate reading-based discussions, hands-on creative workshops, and examples of research-creation in practice, in an effort to engage broader discussions concerning methodology, ethics, responsibility, and institutional solidarities/activism within and beyond the university. To this end, this course will include presentations by scholars and practitioners from inside and outside of academia. To this end, this course will include presentations by scholars and practitioners from inside and outside of academia.

Continue reading below for more information. 

About this course

Course level

  • Master / Advanced / Beginner

Contact hours

  • 40

Language

  • English

Tuition fee

  • €765 - €1360

Additional course information

  • Learning objectives

    By the end of this course, students will:

    • Gain a deeper understanding of the possibilities and pitfalls of research-creation.

    • Gain a broader perspective on research methods and ways to “go public” with/share research findings.

    • Challenge normalized assumptions about how to “do” research.

    • Cultivate a critical perspective of academia, academic research, and collaboration.

    • Consider the ethical implications of research-creation and how to go about the research-creation process with care and intention.

    • Feel inspired to pursue research-creation within their scholarship.

  • Forms of tuition and assessment

    Students will be taught through lectures, seminars, and interactive workshops.

    Assessment will be based on attendance and active participation, daily soundwalks and a co-created zine.

  • About the course coordinator

    Alexandra Greene (she/her) has an interdisciplinary background informed by research-creation, intersectional feminist practices, and a humanities education. Since 2019, she is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research is embedded within the NWO-VICI project Engaged Scholarship and Narratives of Change, led by professor dr. Halleh Ghorashi. Her research explores the practice of solidarity across difference in the context of the migrant justice movement in California.

  • Syllabus

    Here you can download the preliminary syllabus for the summer course 2024. 

    *Please note that it is a preliminary syllabus and that it might be subject to some change before the course starts.  

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  • Esther
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