Research methods
Livinglabs
Sustainability research method, experimental/development environment and ecosystem.
Local initiatives, pragmatic and efficient, balancing social, environmental and economical considerations. Livinglabs are places to overcome narrow scientific or engineering specialization and theoretical assumptions and test consequences of technology next to living ecosystems. All actors - human, animal, plant or microbiome and researchers are on the same level to resolve positive or negative impacts. Instead observation of subjects there is principle of co-creation, experiential learning, prototyping involving communities, inclusive social space for designing and experiencing their own future.
Artistic research
Creative inquiry, practice as research.
Practice led research is a distinctive feature of the research activity conducted by arts and humanities researchers, it involves the identification of research questions and problems, but the research methods, contexts and outputs then involve a significant focus on creative practice. This type of research thus aims, through creativity and practice, to illuminate or bring about new knowledge and understanding, and it results in outputs that may not be text-based, but rather a performance.
Scientific critique, interdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinarity means not only multiple disciplines involved (informatics, biology...), but also multiple domains of inquiry.
- Interpretivist: meaning, constructivist, network, dialogue, interdiscipline
- Empiricist: exploratory, conceptual, reflective, discipline-based
- Critical: positionality-change, contextual, transdiscipline, perspective, question
- Art practice: meta-theoretical, practical, reflexive, post-discipline, visual systems
Art practice also come in coupled with critical, interpretivist and empiricist domains in theory dimensions:
- Create-critique, Meaning-making, Enact-explain
Research fields
Meta-disciplines of trans-discipline of sustainability: