Artistic and Creative Research

Artistic and creative research treats the act of making—writing a poem, staging a performance, designing an object—as a legitimate mode of inquiry, not merely an illustration of ideas developed elsewhere. Scholars and practitioners in this space examine what kind of knowledge emerges from artistic practice itself, how that knowledge can be communicated and evaluated within academic institutions, and whether forms like screenwriting or studio design work carry the same epistemic weight as conventional scholarship. A central tension driving current work is how to build rigorous pedagogical frameworks for teaching practice-based research without flattening the experiential, often tacit understanding that artistic work uniquely produces. Open questions persist around how creative research intersects with cultural authority, whose practices get recognized as research, and how disciplines from poetry to performance can develop shared yet locally sensitive standards for what counts as genuine inquiry.

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Keywords

Creative WritingPractice-Based ResearchArtistic PracticeScreenwritingPedagogyPoetry