Co-Creativity and Engaged Scholarship

Transformative Methods in Social Sustainability Research

Alex Franklin

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9783030842475
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9783030842482
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Urban Planning & Landscaping
• Index: Biological Sciences

This open access book explores creative and collaborative forms of researchpraxis within the social sustainability sciences. The term co-creativity is used inreference to both individual methods and overarching research approaches.Supported by a series of in-depth examples, the edited collection criticallyreviews the potential of co-creative research praxis to nurture just andtransformative processes of change. Included amongst the individual chaptersare first-hand accounts of such as: militant research strategies and guerrillanarrative, decolonial participative approaches, appreciative inquiry and care-ethics, deep-mapping, photo-voice, community-arts, digital participatorymapping, creative workshops and living labs. The collection considers how, through socially inclusive forms of action and reflection, such co-creative methodscan be used to stimulate alternative understandings of why and how things are, and how they could be. It provides illustrations of (and problematizes) the use ofco-creative methods as overtly disruptive interventions in their own right, and asa means of enriching the transformative potential of transdisciplinary and moretraditional forms of social science research inquiry. The positionality of theresearcher, together with the emotional and embodied dimensions of engagedscholarship, are threads which run throughout the book. So too does the questionof how to communicate sustainability science research in a meaningful way.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• 1. Introduction: Sustainability Science as Co-Creative Research Praxis
• 2. Painting Outside the Lines: Transgressing the Managerial University, Avoiding Forced Creativity
• 3. Cooking Commoning Subjectivities: Guerrilla Narrative in the Cooperation Birmingham Solidarity Kitchen
• 4. Participative and Decolonial Approaches in Environmental History
• 5. An Ethos and Practice of Appreciation for Transformative Research: Appreciative Inquiry, Care Ethics, and Creative Methods
• 6. Imaginative Leadership: A Conceptual Frame for the Design and Facilitation of Creative Methods and Generative Engagement
• 7. Insights and Inspiration from Explorative Research into the Impacts of a Community Arts Project
• 8. How to Nurture Ground for Arts-Based Co-Creative Practice in an Invited Space: Reflections on a Community in North Netherlands
• 9. Reflections on Doing Cross-Cultural Research Through and with Visual Methods
• 10. The Eye of the Beholder: Applying Visual Analysis in an Historical Study of Lynxes’ Representations in the Bavarian Forest Region
• 11. Back to the Drawing Board: Creative Mapping Methods for Inclusion and Connection
• 12. ‘Getting Deep into Things’: Deep Mapping in a ‘Vacant’ Landscape
• 13. Engaging ‘Future Generations’ in Meaning Making through Visual Methods: An Alternative Approach to Defining City-Regions
• 14. Technology as a Tool for Environmental Engagement. The Case of Digital Participatory Mapping (DPM)
• 15. Living Labs: A Creative and Collaborative Planning Approach
• 16. Supporting Institutional Transformations: Experimenting with Reflexive and Embodied Cross-Boundary Research
• 17. How to Make Policy-Makers Care about “Wicked Problems” such as Biodiversity Loss?—The Case of a Policy Campaign
• Back Matter