Reimagining Research as Play: Unbearable Lightness of Being a Researcher
Format Type
Plenary
Format Type
Workshop
Start Date
13-1-2021 1:30 PM
End Date
13-1-2021 2:20 PM
Abstract
How do we play to reimagine research? Reimagination as the call of our times has been made starker by the pandemic. In research, we create the world around us in the process of making sense of it. So, how might we not get locked into the activities that we call research? How do our positionality and the context of research offer us the paradox of lightness and heaviness of research? How might we be “light” to see what arrives through the “heavy” process of research? In this workshop, we will explore these questions through performative inquiry and play using zoom as an action site of inquiry. We will play a game of stick figures to explore the paradoxical tensions of research. We will do a role-play activity to explore how we put our worlds into what we are doing. And we will close-off with a virtual game of chase to explore emergence and disruptions of being a researcher. The researchers will interweave their stories of a collaborative research process on emergent play within the context of art education. Come play with us!
The participants will
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Be able to appreciate the value of emergence in research
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Be able to identify the paradoxical tensions in their research
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Be able to identify the value of imagination and play in research
Keywords
Emergence, play, imagination, sense-making, site of inquiry
ORCID ID
0000-0002-1623-2258
Reimagining Research as Play: Unbearable Lightness of Being a Researcher
How do we play to reimagine research? Reimagination as the call of our times has been made starker by the pandemic. In research, we create the world around us in the process of making sense of it. So, how might we not get locked into the activities that we call research? How do our positionality and the context of research offer us the paradox of lightness and heaviness of research? How might we be “light” to see what arrives through the “heavy” process of research? In this workshop, we will explore these questions through performative inquiry and play using zoom as an action site of inquiry. We will play a game of stick figures to explore the paradoxical tensions of research. We will do a role-play activity to explore how we put our worlds into what we are doing. And we will close-off with a virtual game of chase to explore emergence and disruptions of being a researcher. The researchers will interweave their stories of a collaborative research process on emergent play within the context of art education. Come play with us!
The participants will
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Be able to appreciate the value of emergence in research
-
Be able to identify the paradoxical tensions in their research
-
Be able to identify the value of imagination and play in research
Comments
We would like an online space to do breakouts (eg Zoom room breaks)
Saliha Bava runs the Relational Play Lab at Mercy College where she researches play and emergence in coupling, leading, and researching.
Lynn Fels's research addresses arts for social change, arts across the curriculum, performative inquiry, and performative writing at SFU.
Annina Engelbrecht is an RA for SFU Faculty of Education.