and intriguing parts, textures, structures, and movements"
Practice led research is a developing methodology, it allows for the researcher to be a participant in their research. Research approaches now can be much more pro-active, involving practitioners researching through creative ‘action’, and ‘reflecting in and on action’ (Schon, 1983).
The tendancy is to think that all creative work is research but this is not the case. To make it practice led research it is important to distinguish between creative work that a practitioner undertakes to help to answer a question that is structured towards their personal goals, or undertaken to develop content for a creative project; and creative work that is intentional. Creative practice that is deliberate in its intention, that is accessible and creative as well as being structured towards producing new knowledge that is of benefit to others can be regarded as practice led research. Just because an artwork is new it doesn't make it original or ground-breaking in terms of knowledge production.
The acknowledgement of practice based research as a valid and important method has come about through the review of methodologies of MPhil and pHd studies through which key characteristics are recognised as being associated with practice led research. The research comes out of concerns from the researchers own practice but those same concerns can also be deemed as a concern in the wider professional context. Therefore there exists both a personal rational and an external rational for the research.
The emphasis of practice led research is on the creation of data rather than the collection of data. The intention is to move knowledge ‘from the unknown to the known'. The problem that is a recurrent theme in practice led research is the lack of a common vocabulary with which to convey the research methodologies.
"...Why has the art world been unable to articulate any kind of useful paradigm for what it is doing now?" (Eno, 1996, pp. 258_259) alludes to this in a speech at the UK Turner prize ceremony. The language that explains findings through practice needs to become more unified to allow society to recognise the soundness and validitity of the knowledge discovered in this way and to comprehend its significance and be able to place it in context to society and culture and validate it as academically important.
"Although Practice -led researchers frequently both produce and draw on concrete observations and measurements, the starting point is usually an idea; and the attitude is more often a concern with how humans construct the world through ideas, images, narratives and philosophies, than a generalisable 'truth', or understandings of cause and effect." Jen Webb.2008 http://www.writingnetwork.edu.au/content/brief-notes-practice-led-research-0 An example of practice led research which epitomises this notion is
"...Why has the art world been unable to articulate any kind of useful paradigm for what it is doing now?" (Eno, 1996, pp. 258_259) alludes to this in a speech at the UK Turner prize ceremony. The language that explains findings through practice needs to become more unified to allow society to recognise the soundness and validitity of the knowledge discovered in this way and to comprehend its significance and be able to place it in context to society and culture and validate it as academically important.
"Although Practice -led researchers frequently both produce and draw on concrete observations and measurements, the starting point is usually an idea; and the attitude is more often a concern with how humans construct the world through ideas, images, narratives and philosophies, than a generalisable 'truth', or understandings of cause and effect." Jen Webb.2008 http://www.writingnetwork.edu.au/content/brief-notes-practice-led-research-0 An example of practice led research which epitomises this notion is
Dr Jessica Bugg, Academic Co-ordinator, Director of Programmes (Performance)
2007, PhD, University of the Arts London.
'Interface: concept and context as strategies for innovative fashion design and communication', An Analysis from the perspective of the Conceptual Fashion Design Practitioner. In which she uses her practice of Fashion design to analyse how concept and context affect innovation of design and the ability to enable communication through design.
2007, PhD, University of the Arts London.
'Interface: concept and context as strategies for innovative fashion design and communication', An Analysis from the perspective of the Conceptual Fashion Design Practitioner. In which she uses her practice of Fashion design to analyse how concept and context affect innovation of design and the ability to enable communication through design.
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