Propositions and research creation
I had a thought today but as I'm not really blogging at the moment I can't think of anywhere to write but here. Its about trees so its ok and its also about research creation as I'm trying to tighten up the chapter in my PhD.
So I'm thinking of doing my festival of the mind project and I'm going to be listening to trees and part of this is performance and part of it is real as trees do make sound and capture sounds so we have something to listen to which is real. If we take a tradition research question orientated approach we could ask.
If young people are asked to imagine that trees can speak what kind of voice would they imagine and how does this "voice reflect their inner feelings and concerns about the environment?
Or we could go more methodological.
How does working with creative research methods that stimulate young peoples imaginations help us to understand the lived experience of marginalized young people and their engagement with global warming and Carbon sequestration?
If we think of this little project about listening to trees in relation to the propositions of research creation we could just say
Proposition 1.
Trees can speak.
Proposition 2.
Trees can speak to each other, they are angry with us.
So the proposition is a statement that can be either true or false but it opens things up in a different way and if we think about it closely perhaps the research question closes things down especially when working with children or marginalized groups as it always comes before everything else. The proposition can work differently
That sounds good I like the sound of the trees being angry.I also think that the proposition can create something a bit different, like when you landed a spaceship in a school.
ReplyDeleteI never landed a spaceship in a school that was somebody else - well lots of other people really it got traction. I set up an Edwardian explorers campsite in the middle of a quad in the school grounds and had loads of artifacts including my prosthetic leg. I liked that project it was an intervention. I'm less enamoured with interventions now as life feels full of them without artist running about in Morth suits and showing you their bums.
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