Creative Practice Research and its Messy Methods

We still don’t know what creative practice research can do. While mounting examples and a growing history of this research orientation is evident in the disciplines of architecture, art, and design, it is still a domain that can be met with institutional suspicion. Its methods are mixed and messy, it is experimental and exploratory, and it breaks rather than subscribes to convention. Instead of commencing with questions, it often concludes with them (according to the principle that to ask a question is to have pre-determined a likely answer). This panel pays particular attention to creative practice research that is supported by a feminist ethos and inspired by a critical storytelling approach.

Speakers

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Professor Naomi Stead

Director, Design and Creative Practice Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT
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Professor Ana Miljacki

Professor of Architecture at MIT
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Associate Professor Lilian Chee

Leader, Research by Design Cluster, Department of Architecture, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore

Moderator

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Professor Hélène Frichot

Director, Bachelor of Design Professor of Architecture and Philosophy, The University of Melbourne