Arts-Based Methods for Decolonising Participatory Research

In an effort to challenge the ways in which colonial power relations and Eurocentric knowledges are reproduced in participatory research, this book explores whether and how it is possible to use arts-based methods for creating more horizontal and democratic research practices. In discussing both the transformative potential and limitations of arts-based methods, the book asks: What can arts-based methods contribute to decolonising participatory research and its processes and practices? The book takes part in ongoing debates related to the need to decolonise research, and investigates practical contributions of arts-based methods in the practice-led research domain. Further, it discusses the role of artistic research in depth, locating it in a decolonising context. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, design, fine arts, service design, social sciences and development studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 license.

Tiina Seppälä is a senior researcher at the University of Lapland, Finland. Melanie Sarantou is a senior researcher at the University of Lapland, Finland. Satu Miettinen is a professor in service design at the University of Lapland, Finland.

1. Introduction: Arts-Based Methods for Decolonising Participatory Research SECTION I: Co-Creation, Collaboration, Movement 2. Co-Creation Through Quilting: Connected Entanglements and Disruptions With Care 3. In Touch With the Mindful Body: Moving With Women and Girls at the Za'atari Refugee Camp 4. Towards Just Dance Research: An uMunthu Participatory and Performative Inquiry Into Malawian-Norwegian Entanglements 5. Participatory Photography With Women's Rights Activists in Nepal: Towards a Practice of Decolonial Feminist Solidarity? SECTION II: Participatory Service Design 6. Archipelagos of Designing Through Ko -Ontological Encounters 7. Building a Community Through Service Design and Responsiveness to Emotions 8. Developing the Relational Dimension of Participatory Design Through Creativity-Based Methods 9. Navigating Uncertainty: Developing the Facilitator's Role Through Participatory Service Design Workshops SECTION III: Artistic Research and Practice 10. Decoloniality of Knowing and Being: Artistic Research Through Collaborative Craft Practice 11. The Flying Ants and the Beauty of Ice 12. Paint That Place With Light! Light Painting as a Means of Creating Attachment to Historical Locations-An Arts-Based Action Research Project 13. John Savio's Art as a Part of Early Sámi Decolonisation in the 1920s and 1930s