[-empyre-] FW: practice-led

[Phi Shu]

>
> In response to Keith...
>
> Unfortunately Practice-Led or Practice-Based research are themselves lost
> in
> translation from one field/institution/individual/reference to another,
> which in my opinion is one of the problem art practice has as research - if
> basic terminologies and definitions  such as 'Practice-Led' or
> 'Practice-Based' could be agreed or constant - we would get a clearer
> impressions of "how we [as research practitioner]manifest in the world" of
> art practice as research.
>


rather than "practice-led" versus "practice based" wouldn't it be clearer
to say "practice led research" and "research led practice"?

Why is the former version more commonly used?

The later version to my mind reads more clearly in terms of expressing
which component is given primacy.


> Another definition, find online, that reflected some of the readings done
> in
> the early stage of my PhD...
>
> http://www.creativityandcognition.com/research/practice-based-research/diffe
> rences-between-practice-based-and-practice-led-research/
> "If a creative artefact is the basis of the contribution to knowledge, the
> research is practice-based"
> "If the research leads primarily to new understandings about practice, it
> is
> practice-led." (and therefore no absolute in having a final artefact
> produced)
>


I found this following statement on the The Australian Postgraduate Writers
Network:

"Is all creative work also a form of research?

Not necessarily. What makes something research is that it is: intentional,
deliberate, accessible and creative; and that it is geared towards the
generation of new knowledge that is of benefit to others. Research that is
geared towards your personal goals, or the needs only to develop content
for a creative project, is not the same as research that is directed
towards knowledge more generally: to increasing the store of humanity’s
knowledge."

They define practice-led research as:

"Practice-led research has practically no relationship with the positivist
tradition or with classical empiricism. Although practice-led researchers
frequently both produce and draw on concrete observations and measurements,
the starting point is usually an idea; and the attitude is more often a
concern with how humans construct the world through ideas, images,
narratives and philosophies, than a generalisable ‘truth’, or
understandings of cause and effect."
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