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PNG0097

Kreativa forskningsmetoder för urbana sammanhang

Our social, environmental and spatial imaginaries, which we reflect through planning and design processes, depend on our knowledges that we produce with different research methods. Today, the social and humanities turn in spatial research and vice versa (the spatial turn in social sciences and humanities) has provided researchers with new instruments to reveal and make sense of complex social, environmental and spatial phenomena, which are not visible with conventional research methodologies. New and improved knowledge of these phenomena help research to better anchor to social, cultural and political realities of urban places and provide perspectives to how to transform them for sustainable and just urban futures.



This course aims to introduce a selection of creative research methods and allow the student to explore how these could be used to engage with urban contexts and communities. The methods, and associated methodologies, come from a variety of disciplines, including emerging ethnographic practices, cultural mapping, creative writing, the performing arts (dance, choreography, theater, music, sound, circus, poetry), photography, and film.



The course design is modular, each module focusing on a specific creative research method. Each module includes a lecture, a seminar and preparatory tasks such as engaging with related literature and other materials (maps, films, exhibition catalogues…). One of the modules focuses on contextualizing creative research methods in relation to society and more conventional research.



The course will include the following:

- Creative practices as research practice

- Photovoice & visual ethnography

- Critical & cultural mapping

- Community theater & emphatheater

- Creative and reflexive writing

- Artistic research

- Politics of knowledge-visibility-representation



The course design is based on a ‘flipped classroom’ approach, in which the students take part of pre-recorded online lectures and readings, which are then further explored and discussed at seminars. Smaller preparatory exercises are used to prepare for the seminars. The course can be run entirely online, or be blended with some or all of the seminars on campus.

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