Researching and practicing ARTIVISM through field-crossing: an innovative method for collaborative research

Area of Science:

• Social Sciences
• Qualitative Research Methods
• Collaborative Research

Background:

• Traditional collaborative research often overlooks diverse researcher roles and backgrounds.
• Recent scholarship highlights the complexities and benefits of interdisciplinary teamwork.
• The ERC-funded ARTIVISM project necessitated innovative collective research approaches.

Purpose of the Study:

• To introduce and explore the
• field-crossing
• method for collective research.
• To examine the challenges and benefits of multi-sensory, apprenticeship-based, and audio-visual research techniques.
• To enhance understanding of researcher positioning and conflict resolution in intensive fieldwork.

Main Methods:

• Development of the
• field-crossing
• method, involving regular contrast of perspectives and perceptions.
• Application of multi-sensory approaches, apprenticeship, and audio-visual techniques.
• Conducting collective feedback sessions on publications (comics, films) with research participants (artivists).

Main Results:

• Field-crossing
• enables innovative reflection on researcher positioning and opens new perspectives.
• The method facilitates integration of unexpected developments and coping with conflicts.
• Collective feedback sessions effectively elicit complex field relations and diverse viewpoints.

Conclusions:

• Field-crossing
• promotes researcher emotional and intellectual independence post-fieldwork.
• This method fosters a more ethical and reflective approach to collaborative research.
• It provides a framework for managing intricate field dynamics and diverse participant perspectives.