Co-Creativity and Engaged Scholarship: Transformative Methods in Social Sustainability Research

This open-access book explores creative and collaborative forms of research praxis within the social sustainability sciences, using the term co-creativity to refer to both individual methods and overarching research approaches. It critically reviews the potential of co-creative research praxis to nurture just and transformative processes of change, with examples including militant research strategies, decolonial participative approaches, appreciative inquiry, deep-mapping, photo-voice, community-arts, digital participatory mapping, creative workshops, and living labs. The collection considers how co-creative methods can be used to stimulate alternative understandings of why and how things are, and how they could be, and provides illustrations of (and problematizes) the use of co-creative methods as disruptive interventions.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 559 pages
Publication date: 02 December 2021
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

This open-access book delves into innovative and collaborative approaches to research practice within the field of social sustainability sciences. Co-creativity is employed to encompass both individual methods and overarching research frameworks. The edited collection, backed by extensive case studies, critically examines the potential of co-creative research praxis to foster equitable and transformative processes of change. Among the individual chapters, readers can explore firsthand accounts of various approaches, including militant research strategies, guerrilla narrative, decolonial participatory methods, appreciative inquiry, care ethics, deep-mapping, photo-voice, community arts, digital participatory mapping, creative workshops, and living labs. The collection explores how socially inclusive forms of action and reflection can be employed to stimulate alternative perspectives on the reasons and mechanisms behind phenomena, as well as potential alternatives for their future. It also provides illustrations of (and raises concerns about) the use of co-creative methods as disruptive interventions in their own right and as means of enhancing the transformative potential of transdisciplinary and traditional forms of social science research inquiry. Throughout the book, the researcher's positionality, along with the emotional and embodied aspects of engaged scholarship, are emphasized. Additionally, the question of effective communication of sustainability science research is addressed.

Weight: 760g
Dimension: 148 x 208 x 39 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030842505
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022