Creative Research Methods with Dr. Helen Kara
Possible PhD presentation approaches
~Create mind map and use it like floor plan, and from it, construct a 3-d model
~Write a paragraph about the plan
~Write a found text poem from project statement… sequential or non-sequential (I used this approach to write the following two poem outlines...)
"Indicative"
Albers
Ball, Bleicher
Campbell, Coleman
Dickey
Eaverly, Edwards
Fider and Komarova, Finlay, Ford Shallbetter
Gage, Gillman, Goethe, Gottschalk, Gregg
Hamilton, Hornung, Hornung, Hornung, Hornung
Itten, Itten, Itten
Klein
Lewis
Rogers
Mollica,
Newton, Noyes Vanderpoel
Odita
Pollock, Pollock, ‘Pro’Sobopha, Puleo
Rea, Rogers Tost
Sidaway, Stewart, Syme
Temkin
Willard, Wurmfeld, Wurmfeld
Zuffi
"PROPOSED"
Acceptance
Studio
Perception
Orientation
Body
Time
Color
Theory
Psychology
Critiquing
Process
Venuses
Piece
ETHNOGRAPHY
METHODOLOGIES
Harmonies
Pigments
Digital
NYC
Pandemic
3-Dimensionality
Painting
Design
Studio
Practice
exhibition
Formed
entanglement
Anthropocene
Contingency
Knowing
Writing
Publishing
Global
Future
Underpaintings
Record
Immaterial
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Arts-based research
Tell a story…or a bit of one
Macro:
Sousanis N (2015) Doctoral thesis Unflattening, p.95, Harvard University Press.
Frame experiences to give them meaning-take the reader with you…bring the reader with me.
Consider making a graphic novel
Micro: Laura Stark
Behind Closed Doors (2012), Chicago University Press
Embodied Reporting
Goldstein & Wickett 2009
Education and Theatre professionals
595-page health & safety report (2 vol. report)
based on it, this 30-min performance, with careful staging called Zero Tolerance was born
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Read about the justification for a creatively written PhD
helenkara.com/2021/04/29/getting-creati…
Helen recommended I research American mathematician this PhD thesis, The Equidistribution of Lattice Shapes of Rings of
Integers of Cubic, Quartic, and Quintic Number Fields: an Artist's Rendering Based on the original story by Manjul Bhargava and Piper Harron
Piper Alexis Harron, 2016
www.theliberatedmathematician.com/
List of formats to consider:
Storytelling
Diagrams
Mind mappings
Graphics
Visualizations
Maps
Performance
Embodied presenting
Multi-modal presenting, i.e., slides: Ppt, press, etc.
Digital storytelling, i.e., Willox, Harper and Edge on Youtube
Be sure to know your audience and to maintain their interest, engage reader's/viewer's emotions, i.e., Rigolet Storytelling & Digital Media Lab: Have We Waited Too Long? By Marilyn Baikie, see her Youtube video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsvYQ-Fyp78&…
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Exercise: Think about seminars, conferences, viva, etc.
~Could performative methods help in presenting your research?
~How can you combine these with other methods for greater understanding?
~It’s all about the quality of the content and the effectiveness of the presentation (format),
~Visual, auditory, written, moving, physical, experiential…
I.e., music/painting video collaborations like Baird and I did for “Pink Universe”
~Think on it for 20 min, then share some options.
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~Write thesis as an “elevator pitch”, verbalize in 2-minute meeting with a “layperson” stranger what my thesis topic is.
~Write thesis as a Pecha Kucha- a 20 slides in 7 minutes visual/verbal presentation.
~Make a Tedtalk style max 20 min video presentation and post to YouTube.
(I spent time for this exercise developing what might become my "elevator pitch" or 2-3 minute verbal presentation)
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