Rhyme and Research: Poetic Inquiry as a Research Method
Workshop with Abbi Flint
21.05.2024 at 14:00
Location: Rachel Carson Center, fourth floor, Conference Room, Leopoldstr. 11a, 80802 Munich, Germany
In this hands-on workshop, we will explore how researchers might use poetic inquiry within multimethod approaches to explore human relationships with environments and their heritage.
Dr. Flint will share examples from her own research practice of how to integrate poetic inquiry as a method within research into landscape heritage and museum artifacts and work in progress which combines mobile and poetic methods. Together, the workshop participants will explore how research poems can be used:
- to put different perspectives/sources on human-environment relationships in conversation with one another;
- as part of the process of data crystallization, analysis, and interpretation;
- to foreground diverse voices within the research, including the other-than-human.
During the workshop, participants will start to craft their own research poems, and if the weather permits, they may also venture outside to combine mobile and poetic methods in practice.
Example material to work with will be provided, but participants are also encouraged to bring along a couple of pages of text, images, and/or data from their research to work with during the session. Participants could, for instance, bring extracts of texts from archival sources, scientific research, interview transcripts, or fieldwork diaries/journals.
The workshop is open to all.
Please contact Dr. Abbi Flint at abbi.flint@ncl.ac.uk with any questions regarding the workshop.
Bio
Dr. Abbi Flint is a research associate in history on the “In All Our Footsteps” project, which is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), at Newcastle University, UK. With a background in archaeology, her research interests include peoples’ engagements with landscapes and heritage—especially peatlands—and with other-than human animals. She is also a poet and has been published in literary magazines and research project outputs.