How can research-creation methods in universities connect with creative practices beyond academic settings?
A research project funded by SSHRC and Toronto Metropolitan University.
This project will explore how we can extend the uses and impact of research-creation so that its full potential could enrich artistic practices outside of academia, and how the practice of research-creation can benefit from having a more open and inclusive relationship with artistic and creative practices in the wider world.
Officially titled “Practices of Knowing: Research-Creation Beyond Academia,” our three-year study explores potential connections between research-creation academics and artists and creators in the wider world, focusing on four areas of discovery where research-creation methodologies could offer practical insights to the wider artistic, creative and innovation communities:
(1) Discovery from making;
(2) Decolonization of knowledge;
(3) Impact of AI; and
(4) Documented processes of innovation and imagination.
This research takes place across many traditional lands.
Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University are in the Dish with One Spoon Territory. The Dish with One Spoon is a treaty between the Anishinaabe, Mississaugas and Haudenosaunee that bound them to share the territory and protect the land. Subsequent Indigenous Nations and peoples, Europeans and all newcomers, have been invited into this treaty in the spirit of peace, friendship and respect. The University of British Columbia, Okanagan respectfully acknowledges that we live and work in the unceded and ancestral territory of the Syilx people since time immemorial.