practise-led vs practise-based research

• Practice-Based Research

  • The creative artefact or intervention is the primary research output.
  • The artefact is not illustrative, it generates insight.
  • the creative product IS the research, that is the basis of your contribution to knowledge
  • prototype with documentation, eg interface that demonstrates the theories
  • research is embodied in the actual working system rather than just written about
  • eg build a tool to enable new processes
  • eg designing a speculative platform to visualise injustice

• Practice-Led Research

  • The research is about practice itself.
  • The focus is on learning from the process of making, building theory through reflective documentation and critical analysis.
  • technical output is informed by theory
  • process of iteration is different
  • the writing is more important
  • focus on what you learned through the practise
  • produce various outputs but there is iterative inquiry, your initial methods feed into new methods
  • eg building a collaborative design toolkit for injustice and analysing how its use reshapes participation-