APA: Jaaniste, L. & Hamilton, J. (2014). The Effective and the Evocative: A Spectrum of Creative Practice Research. In Barrett, E & Bolt, B. Material Inventions Applying Creative Arts Research (pp. 232-243). I.B.TAURIS.
Summary: The differences between Effective and Evocative practice based research, how each works and what works for different people.
Evocative practice research is the research goal to generate artefacts that 'produce affect and resonance through evocation'.
Effective practice research pursues a solution (or resolution) to a specific problem that is important to a particular community, and it incorporates practice with the intention of producing an artefact that 'effects change'.
I work in the effective practice based research. Where I have an end goal and the steps needed to create it.
Summary of Sub-Headings
The Effective and the Evocative: A Spectrum of Creative Practice Research
This section is an introduction in to the terms Effective and Evocative practice research
Evocative practice research is the research goal to generate artefacts that 'produce affect and resonance through evocation'.
The Effective and the Evocative as Distinctive Research approaches
A quick summary of the differences and similarities that each practice research has. For example, they may use the same kind of technology, fabrication or materials to create an artefact, but it is the three broad categories and how they are used that distinguish them. The three broad categories are
Difference in forming Contexts (Impetus, Questions and Aims)
This sector tells us about the fundamental difference in creative practice research that arises out of forming contexts. This is the impetus, motivation or trigger for the research project.
The primary aim of effective research is to effect change.The questions asked relate to this. To pursue the problem, one must have an in-depth understanding of the problem, its context and stakeholders in order to design the next steps, processes to design and develop a solution.
Whereas, evocative research is driven by the individual and wider cultural preoccupations. The context usually comes from from the researchers existing practice, which then remains central to the research. The research aim is not the pursuit of something specific and does not endeavor to provide a solution. The created artefact may not have an obvious function, rather it provides insight into, and contributes to the human experience (In broad terms)
Differences in Practice (Methodologies, Methods and Sequencing)
Contexts create the methodologies in which an artefact is created.
For effective research, a researcher may thoroughly analyse their contexts using ethnographic and social science methods (Observing, Interviews or focus groups) Information gained from such a practice provides a foundation for developing a set of guiding principles and processes for developing research outcomes.
When this substantial process of contextual research has been completed, practice may be initiated. The point of practice is to create an artefact that, as an instantiation of the initial research findings, will then be employed to enact or enable a solution. Then the artefact is tested in context using qualitative and quantitative methods) to evaluate its impact on the problem.
Evocative research, the research questions arises from materiality and advent of the practice. It is an ongoing dialogue between the practice, theory and topic.
Differences in Outcomes (The Artefact, Evidence and New Knowledge)
In this sub-heading, the production of new knowledge is introduced. It is fundamental to all research projects, as with out it there is no research only replication. Scrivener's (2000) article established some differences. Implementing the artefact in context allows the researcher to test and measure the efficacy and to evaluate the new knowledge produced. While the implementation of the artefact allows new knowledge to be tested, it is the knowledge invested in the artefact that is larger than this single instantiation, primary contribution to knowledge. In regards to "creative production projects" The art object does not embody a form of knowledge" (Scrivener, 2000) Scrivener's criteria for knowledge means it must be conclusive and measurable.
Knowledge is not only rational and empirical but can be philosophical, poetic and experimental.
Effective and Evocative practice Research Projects
Vaguely introducing two successful doctoral research projects from Queensland University or Technology.
An Exemplar of Effective Practice Research
An example of effective practice based research , Resilience by design: A participatory approach to designing and interactive digital application for promoting children's resilience by designer Oksana Zelenko (2012)
The project was problem based and contextual (primary school). Its research question summarized was: How can we effectively support children in acquiring resilience through and experimental digital application?
The aim was to design digital tools to complement and extend established approaches to building resilience.
It was not seen as 'practice-led' as it was only after substantial body of research that practice began. The resulting artefacts were prototype digital tools that presented a variety of interactive activities for individuals and children.
In both form and function they were instant ions of the concepts, interaction design principles and methods of participation.
An Exemplar of Evocative Practice Research
Hybrid Research practices that Combine Effective and Evocative Approaches
Harnessing the Evocative to be Effective
Transposing and Evocative Practice into and Effective Research Project
An Effective Research Approach becomes Evocative
Conclusion
Interesting bits:
I work in the effective practice based research. Where I have an end goal and the steps needed to create it.
Summary of Sub-Headings
The Effective and the Evocative: A Spectrum of Creative Practice Research
This section is an introduction in to the terms Effective and Evocative practice research
Evocative practice research is the research goal to generate artefacts that 'produce affect and resonance through evocation'.
Effective practice research pursues a solution (or resolution) to a specific problem that is important to a particular community, and it incorporates practice with the intention of producing an artefact that 'effects change'.
The Effective and the Evocative as Distinctive Research approaches
A quick summary of the differences and similarities that each practice research has. For example, they may use the same kind of technology, fabrication or materials to create an artefact, but it is the three broad categories and how they are used that distinguish them. The three broad categories are
- Differences in the forming contexts of the research
- Differences in practice
- Differences in outcomes
Difference in forming Contexts (Impetus, Questions and Aims)
This sector tells us about the fundamental difference in creative practice research that arises out of forming contexts. This is the impetus, motivation or trigger for the research project.
The primary aim of effective research is to effect change.The questions asked relate to this. To pursue the problem, one must have an in-depth understanding of the problem, its context and stakeholders in order to design the next steps, processes to design and develop a solution.
Whereas, evocative research is driven by the individual and wider cultural preoccupations. The context usually comes from from the researchers existing practice, which then remains central to the research. The research aim is not the pursuit of something specific and does not endeavor to provide a solution. The created artefact may not have an obvious function, rather it provides insight into, and contributes to the human experience (In broad terms)
Differences in Practice (Methodologies, Methods and Sequencing)
Contexts create the methodologies in which an artefact is created.
For effective research, a researcher may thoroughly analyse their contexts using ethnographic and social science methods (Observing, Interviews or focus groups) Information gained from such a practice provides a foundation for developing a set of guiding principles and processes for developing research outcomes.
When this substantial process of contextual research has been completed, practice may be initiated. The point of practice is to create an artefact that, as an instantiation of the initial research findings, will then be employed to enact or enable a solution. Then the artefact is tested in context using qualitative and quantitative methods) to evaluate its impact on the problem.
Evocative research, the research questions arises from materiality and advent of the practice. It is an ongoing dialogue between the practice, theory and topic.
Differences in Outcomes (The Artefact, Evidence and New Knowledge)
In this sub-heading, the production of new knowledge is introduced. It is fundamental to all research projects, as with out it there is no research only replication. Scrivener's (2000) article established some differences. Implementing the artefact in context allows the researcher to test and measure the efficacy and to evaluate the new knowledge produced. While the implementation of the artefact allows new knowledge to be tested, it is the knowledge invested in the artefact that is larger than this single instantiation, primary contribution to knowledge. In regards to "creative production projects" The art object does not embody a form of knowledge" (Scrivener, 2000) Scrivener's criteria for knowledge means it must be conclusive and measurable.
Knowledge is not only rational and empirical but can be philosophical, poetic and experimental.
Effective and Evocative practice Research Projects
Vaguely introducing two successful doctoral research projects from Queensland University or Technology.
An Exemplar of Effective Practice Research
An example of effective practice based research , Resilience by design: A participatory approach to designing and interactive digital application for promoting children's resilience by designer Oksana Zelenko (2012)
The project was problem based and contextual (primary school). Its research question summarized was: How can we effectively support children in acquiring resilience through and experimental digital application?
The aim was to design digital tools to complement and extend established approaches to building resilience.
It was not seen as 'practice-led' as it was only after substantial body of research that practice began. The resulting artefacts were prototype digital tools that presented a variety of interactive activities for individuals and children.
In both form and function they were instant ions of the concepts, interaction design principles and methods of participation.
An Exemplar of Evocative Practice Research
Hybrid Research practices that Combine Effective and Evocative Approaches
Harnessing the Evocative to be Effective
Transposing and Evocative Practice into and Effective Research Project
An Effective Research Approach becomes Evocative
Conclusion
Interesting bits:
- The context of the project creates the types of questions asked and research aims. These inflects the approach and role that the resulting artefact plays in the research outcomes.
Unfamiliar terms
- extrapolated
- conflation
- eliding
- engender
- empirical
- irreducible
- dichotomy
- impetus
- in situ
- phenomenology
- socio-politcal
- ethnographic
- instantiation
- iterative
- instantiations
- exegesis
- interim
- efficacy
- extrapolate
- efficacious
- reducible
- exemplified
- inherent
- antiphonic
- perceptual
- delimited dichotomy
- hybridity
- instrumentality
- axiomatic
I work in the effective practice based research. Where I have an end goal and the steps needed to create it.
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