Co-Creativity and Engaged Scholarship
Transformative Methods in Social Sustainability Research
- A unique overview of transdisciplinary approaches to researching and communicating community environmental practice
- Demonstrates how to engage in impactful research realising the full potential of transdisciplinary science
- Invaluable reference for researchers working across a range of different institutions and community settings
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
1. Front Matter
Pages i-xxxi
3. Painting Outside the Lines: Transgressing the Managerial University, Avoiding Forced Creativity
Stephen Leitheiser, Rubén Vezzoni, Viola Hakkarainen
Pages 43-73
4. Cooking Commoning Subjectivities: Guerrilla Narrative in the Cooperation Birmingham Solidarity Kitchen
Sergio Ruiz Cayuela, Marco Armiero
Pages 75-104
5. Participative and Decolonial Approaches in Environmental History
Sofía De la Rosa Solano, Alex Franklin, Luke Owen
Pages 105-129
6. An Ethos and Practice of Appreciation for Transformative Research: Appreciative Inquiry, Care Ethics, and Creative Methods
Angela Moriggi
Pages 131-164
7. Imaginative Leadership: A Conceptual Frame for the Design and Facilitation of Creative Methods and Generative Engagement
Kelli R. Pearson
Pages 165-204
8. Insights and Inspiration from Explorative Research into the Impacts of a Community Arts Project
Pages 205-227
9. How to Nurture Ground for Arts-Based Co-Creative Practice in an Invited Space: Reflections on a Community in North Netherlands
Scott Davis, Yanthe van Nek, Lummina G. Horlings
Pages 229-263
10. Reflections on Doing Cross-Cultural Research Through and with Visual Methods
Pages 265-297
11. The Eye of the Beholder: Applying Visual Analysis in an Historical Study of Lynxes’ Representations in the Bavarian Forest Region
Pages 299-321
12. Back to the Drawing Board: Creative Mapping Methods for Inclusion and Connection
Pages 323-355
13. ‘Getting Deep into Things’: Deep Mapping in a ‘Vacant’ Landscape
Imogen Humphris, Lummina G. Horlings, Iain Biggs
Pages 357-390
14. Engaging ‘Future Generations’ in Meaning Making through Visual Methods: An Alternative Approach to Defining City-Regions
Lorena Axinte
Pages 391-416
15. Technology as a Tool for Environmental Engagement. The Case of Digital Participatory Mapping (DPM)
Nohemi Ramirez Aranda, Rubén Vezzoni
Pages 417-455
16. Living Labs: A Creative and Collaborative Planning Approach
Maria Alina Rădulescu, Wim Leendertse, Jos Arts
Pages 457-491
17. Supporting Institutional Transformations: Experimenting with Reflexive and Embodied Cross-Boundary Research
Gloria Giambartolomei, Alex Franklin, Jana Fried
Pages 493-525
18. How to Make Policy-Makers Care about “Wicked Problems” such as Biodiversity Loss?—The Case of a Policy Campaign
Agnes Zolyomi
Pages 527-553
19. Back Matter
Pages 555-559
Introduction
This open access book explores creative and collaborative research methods within the social sustainability sciences. The term co-creativity is used in reference to both individual methods and overarching research approaches that, through socially inclusive forms of action and reflection, stimulate alternative understandings of why and how things are, and how they could be. Supported by a wide-ranging series of in-depth—including chapters on militant research and guerrilla narrative, decolonial participative approaches, appreciate inquiry and care-ethics, deep-mapping, photo-voice, community-arts, digital participatory mapping, and living labs—the edited collection critically reviews the potential of creative, collaborative and transdisciplinary forms of research praxis to nurture just and transformative processes of change. This includes considering the role of narrative, creative workshops, visual and arts-based forms of research in contributing to engaged scholarship, as well also as a range of methods from field of critical cartography. The positionality of the researcher, together with the emotional and embodied dimensions of ‘doing’ transdisciplinary research are threads which run throughout the collection. So too does the question of how to communicate sustainability science research in meaningful way.
Keywords
sustainability, transdisciplinary, methods, mixed methods, creative research methods, social sustainability science, research methods, resilient, environmental practice, open access
Editors and affiliations
Centre for Agrecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR)Coventry UniversityCoventryUK
About the editors
Alex Franklin is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Agroecology, Water & Resilience (CAWR), Coventry University, UK. Her research explores collaborative forms of environmental action and care, with a particular focus on place-based practice, situated knowledge and more-than-human relations.
Bibliographic information
- Book Title: Co-Creativity and Engaged Scholarship
- Book Subtitle: Transformative Methods in Social Sustainability Research
- Editors: Alex Franklin
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84248-2
- Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
- License: CC BY
- Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
- eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
- Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84247-5
- Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84250-5
- eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-84248-2
- Edition Number: 1
- Number of Pages: XXXI, 559
- Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 52 illustrations in colour
- Topics: Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Geography, general, Environment, general, History, general, Human Geography