TY - JOUR

T1 - Creative Practice as Research

T2 - Discourse on Methodology

AU - Skains, R. Lyle

PY - 2018/5/22

Y1 - 2018/5/22

N2 - In recent years artistic practice has developed into a major focus of research activity, both as process and product, and discourse in various disciplines have made a strong case for its validity as a method of studying art and the practice of art. This paper presents a methodological approach to creative practice as research, and includes an overview of the different types of practice-related research currently undertaken across a variety of disciplines; discussion of the purposes and applications of creative practice research; and the Practitioner Model of Creative Cognition sample methodology I developed through my own creative practice research. The online version of this paper is a living discussion of practice-based methodologies in creative practice research, included as part of the special issue The Disrupted Journal of Media Practice, and invites reader contributions and discussion for future revisions.

AB - In recent years artistic practice has developed into a major focus of research activity, both as process and product, and discourse in various disciplines have made a strong case for its validity as a method of studying art and the practice of art. This paper presents a methodological approach to creative practice as research, and includes an overview of the different types of practice-related research currently undertaken across a variety of disciplines; discussion of the purposes and applications of creative practice research; and the Practitioner Model of Creative Cognition sample methodology I developed through my own creative practice research. The online version of this paper is a living discussion of practice-based methodologies in creative practice research, included as part of the special issue The Disrupted Journal of Media Practice, and invites reader contributions and discussion for future revisions.

KW - practice based research

KW - methodology

KW - arts research

KW - creative writing

KW - practice led research

KW - creative research

KW - auto-ethnomethodology

KW - creative cognition

U2 - 10.1080/14682753.2017.1362175

DO - 10.1080/14682753.2017.1362175

M3 - Article

VL - 19

SP - 82

EP - 97

JO - Journal of Media Practice

JF - Journal of Media Practice

SN - 1468-2753

IS - 1

ER -