Creative and Arts-Based Research Methods in Academic Research: Lessons from a Participatory Research Project in the Netherlands

This article contributes to the discussion on the value of creative and arts-based research methods to researchers interested in community resilience. Based on a participatory research project that used a mix of these methods conducted in a Dutch village, we provide more nuanced, concrete insights into their value. We elaborate on the three project stages: walking interviews, group discussions, and a creative workshop that resulted in an exhibition, and on the challenges encountered during our project. We discuss how each project stage contributed to producing multifaceted knowledge. Researche... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Vaart, Gwenda van der
Hoven, Bettina van
Huigen, Paulus P.P.
Dokumenttyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
Verlag/Hrsg.: DEU
Schlagwörter: Sozialwissenschaften / Soziologie / Social sciences / sociology / anthropology / Community-Resilienz / arts-based research methods / community resilience / creative research methods / facettenreiches Wissen / kreative Forschungsmethoden / kunstbasierte Forschungsmethoden / multifaceted knowledge / participatory research / partizipative Forschung / Forschungsarten der Sozialforschung / Research Design
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This article contributes to the discussion on the value of creative and arts-based research methods to researchers interested in community resilience. Based on a participatory research project that used a mix of these methods conducted in a Dutch village, we provide more nuanced, concrete insights into their value. We elaborate on the three project stages: walking interviews, group discussions, and a creative workshop that resulted in an exhibition, and on the challenges encountered during our project. We discuss how each project stage contributed to producing multifaceted knowledge. Researchers can benefit from the discussions about the process and implications of creative and arts-based methods such as ours as, to date, there has been relatively little methodological reflection on these methods. Based on our study, we conclude that despite some challenges, creative and arts-based research methods have much to offer researchers interested in community resilience. We found they can: 1. generate deep insight by going beyond rational-cognitive ways of knowing and providing new ways of understanding people's real lived experiences and views; and 2. offer ways to "give back" and contribute to a community, potentially igniting a spark among community members to engage in further action and contribute to their community's resilience. This aligns with the, currently often articulated, aims of researchers to directly benefit those involved and to share their research findings with a broader non-academic audience. ; Mit diesem Artikel wollen wir zu aktuellen Diskussionen über den Nutzen kreativer und kunstbasierter Verfahren in der Community-Resilienzforschung beitragen, wobei wir auf Erfahrungen aus einer partizipativen Studie rückgreifen, die wir in einem niederländischen Dorf durchgeführt haben. Wir berichten über die in drei Projektphasen genutzten Methoden – Walking Interviews, Gruppendiskussionen und einen Workshop – und darüber, wie wir die jeweiligen Herausforderungen gemeistert haben, um zu einem für jede ...