Co-Creativity and Engaged Scholarship

This open access book explores creative and collaborative forms of researchpraxis within the social sustainability sciences. The term co-creativity is used inreference to both individual methods and overarching research approaches.Supported by a series of in-depth examples, the edited collection criticallyreviews the potential of co-creative research praxis to nurture just andtransformative processes of change. Included amongst the individual chaptersare first-hand accounts of such as: militant research strategies and guerrillanarrative, decolonial participative approaches, appreciative inquiry and care-ethics,deep-mapping, photo-voice, community-arts, digital participatorymapping, creative workshops and living labs. The collection considers how,through socially inclusive forms of action and reflection, such co-creative methodscan be used to stimulate alternative understandings of why and how things are,and how they could be. It provides illustrations of (and problematizes) the use ofco-creative methods as overtly disruptive interventions in their own right, and asa means of enriching the transformative potential of transdisciplinary and moretraditional forms of social science research inquiry. The positionality of theresearcher, together with the emotional and embodied dimensions of engagedscholarship, are threads which run throughout the book. So too does the questionof how to communicate sustainability science research in a meaningful way.