Creative Inquiry Research & Practice: Catalyst for Social Change
Simon Dove, Professor of Practice, School of Dance
Eileen Standley, Clinical Professor, School of Dance
Initially, the Creative Inquiry Research Group (CIRG) was conceived as an opportunity to share and
survey commonalities of what creative inquiry means to each artistic field and how that is incorporated
into faculty members’ teaching, research specialties, and artistic work processes. Innovative practice-based sessions were held in the working environment of the HIDA faculty member whose respective discipline was being shared. These meetings were followed by discussion in person and via emails and documentation with the support of an MFA grad student from the School of Dance.
This year the goal of this Reseach Cluster is to continue to establish connections between the diverse areas of our investigation and practice, thereby building upon common areas of exploration. The purpose is to gather together in order to experience each other’s creative processes, share philosophical and theoretical resources, and lines of questioning in-practice, thereby growing our understanding of each others’ creative inquiry, its impact and stimulus for social change, and furthering transdisciplinary research possibilities.