Playing with data: Translating Critical Inquiry into Creative Practice - IP
About this Event
This four-session seminar-workshop interrogates the boundaries between rigorous academic inquiry and expressive creative practice, repositioning qualitative inquiry as an embodied, tactile, and multimodal playground. Moving conventional coding grids, thematic matrices, and static reporting, this series invites scholars, doctoral researchers, and artists to treat empirical materials (field notes, transcripts, institutional records, and theoretical models) as raw artistic media.
Grounded in Arts-Based Research (ABR), critical inquiry, and creative synthesis, participants will explore how poetic, tactile, print, and performative interventions disrupt traditional interpretive habits. Through hands-on experimentation, researchers will learn to mobilize subtraction, collage assemblage, micro-publishing, and script generation to surface affective nuances, power dynamics, and relational layers that standard academic prose often flattens. By the end of the series, participants will not only possess concrete methods for "undisciplining" their analytical routines, but also tangible prototypes suited for unconventional scholarly dissemination, public exhibitions, or community dialogues.
Session 1: The Echoing Voice: Found/Black-out Poetry and Speculative Narratives
Session 2: The Radical Page: Zine-Making as Counter-Archive and Dissemination
Session 3: Assemblage & Layering: Critical Collage as Visual Analysis
Session 4: Embodied Evidence: Translating Fieldwork into Performing
Who Is This For?
- Qualitative researchers and ethnographers interested in innovativion, creativity and art.
- Artists, writers, and creatives working with communities.
- Urbanists, geographers, and cultural studies scholars.
- Anyone who wants to explore artisitic forms of data dissemination.
No prior experience .
Materials: Participants will need art supplies, markers, colored pencils, paper, old magazines, paint and any other you have available at home.
Facilitator:
Dr. Yecid Ortega has been committed to critical, creative, anti-racist, and decolonial worldviews in research and education for over two decades. He explores the pluriversality of social, cultural, and linguistic experiences of the most marginalized communities in society. He is the founder of Liminal Research Services and co-founder of Artem Research Collective.
Note: 1 payment for 3 in person lessons.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
CAD 97.78
