2. 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)
3. 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
4. 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' terms
Example 1: Music ability (Gameli)
Example 2: Outtakes from ‘Making of’ (Katja)
http://vimeo.com/75256090
5. 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)
6. 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)
7. 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
8.
9. 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
10. 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?
11. THANK YOU – DANKE – AKPE
Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) through the Translating Cultures Programme
[grant reference AH/L006936/1]
