Criatividade e imaginação: a pesquisa como transformação de mundo!

Celiane Camargo-Borges

doi:10.36025/arj.v7i2.21300

Authors

Celiane Camargo-Borges Breda University of Applied Sciences

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36025/arj.v7i2.21300

Keywords:

Creative research, Imagination in research, Art methods

Abstract

The paper addresses the role of creativity and imagination in research. It challenges the dichotomized view of research, working with oppositional options: qualitative X quantitative or academic X applied, offering a more pragmatic and context-oriented approach. This view is grounded in an epistemology that embraces research as a social practice. The paper presents a research project where methods from the arts are applied as a way to embrace creativity and imagination in research. It concludes that this approach shift research from discovery to generativity. It also moves research away from just hypothesis testing to a focus on local knowledge. Finally, the role of the researcher also shifts from the “power over” to a position of “power with” by virtue of an openness to consideration of whose voices are heard, included, excluded, and so forth.

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Author Biography

Celiane Camargo-Borges, Breda University of Applied Sciences

Graduated in Psychology by the Unesp University, with a master in Social Psychology and a PhD in Public Health by the University of São Paulo. Celiane focuses at the interface of social psychology, education, Community/organization development, social innovation and Imagineering. Currently she is faculty at the Breda University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands, collaborating with Brazilian Universities and NGO’s. Her work explores creative, interactive and innovative practices to create a dialogical context where situated reflections and new actions can take place. Celiane is a board member of the Taos Institute, a non-profit organization committed to the development and dissemination of social constructionist ideas; she is also a supervisor of the PhD in Professional Practice: Psychological Perspectives, from the Canterbury Christ Church University, England. To know more about her work, visit the website: www.designingconversations.us

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