TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential and durability of arts practice as research through developing a new approach to arts research that challenges the conventional association between dominant constructions of community and dominant modes of research. Design/methodology/approach– A co-design approach, situated in arts practice, has been used to generate a conceptual framework that offers potential to open up the workings of communities by examining them from the standpoint of those who have everyday experience of these communities. Findings– The paper argues that there can no longer be clearly demarcated boundaries between “academics” and “community partners” in a genuinely co-designed arts research process. Rather, there are “research partners” who share mutual recognition of skills and experiences that allow them to commit to a durable “new creative scholarship” that reflects their collective identities. Social implications– The conceptual framework celebrates the life stories of individuals at the expense of the grand metanarratives favoured by empirical sociology and mainstream humanities. The framework reflects the commitment of the authors to create accounts of communities that do justice to their collective wisdom, dynamism and connectivity, as well as their transience, their needs to transform and their responses to change, in ways that reflect the lives of those involved rather than the needs of externally imposed disciplinary regimes. Originality/value– The conceptual framework is a new approach to qualitative research; its value lies in putting the participants at the heart of the research process where they not only generate narrative, but also situate, mediate and remediate it in ways that extend conventional participative research practices.
VL  - 15
IS  - 4
SN  - 1443-9883
DO  - 10.1108/QRJ-06-2015-0036
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/QRJ-06-2015-0036
AU  - Gilchrist Paul
AU  - Holmes Claire
AU  - Lee Amelia
AU  - Moore Niamh
AU  - Ravenscroft Neil
ED  - Professor Kate Pahl and Professor Tarquam Mckenna
PY  - 2015
Y1  - 2015/01/01
TI  - Co-designing non-hierarchical community arts research: the collaborative stories spiral
T2  - Qualitative Research Journal
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 459
EP  - 471
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -