Associations: Creative Practice and Research

Product Description
Associations is a collection of essays and reflections on creative practice and research. It presents some contemporary accounts and reflections on doing research for, through and with creative practices, particularly in the higher education sector. The overview of the book includes art and design and other creative practices-as-research intersections and will be particularly interesting to postgraduate researchers and emerging researchers. It is not a methods text, but it is oriented towards methodological thinking and the social and structural situations of creative practice and research.


Contributors include: Gene Bawden; Barbara Bolt; Danny Butt; Tania Cañas; Aaron Corn; Anne Douglas; Mick Douglas; Léuli Eshrāghi; Ross Gibson; Lisa Grocott; Anna Hickey-Moody; Lucas Ihlein; Lyndal Jones; Hannah Korsmeyer; Julienne van Loon; Lachlan MacDowall; Brian Martin; James Oliver; Kate Pahl; Sarah Pink; Steve Pool; Amanda Ravetz; Ricardo Sosa; Naomi Stead; John Vella; Jessica Wilkinson
About the Author
James Oliver is a transdisciplinary academic with over 20 years of research and teaching experience. The foundations of his research and training are in the social sciences, while his expertise in creative practice is oriented towards methodological considerations with a practice-as-research paradigm. His approach also incorporates ethnographic reflection on social and spatial practices in art, design, performance and film. His wider research interests range across de-colonial practices, public pedagogies and co-producing knowledge.