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Sarah Hendrickx obtained her PhD in the Arts at St Lucas Antwerp and the University of Antwerp in 2022.
Chloé Dierckx became a Docter in Social Sciences in 2024 at KU Leuven.
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Sarah Hendrickx
The Bureaucreative Age
A parafiction on the aftermath of the creative industries
The Bureaucreative Age is a research that finds itself tangled within a corporate, economic and bureaucratic environment and is explored inside an artistic parafiction. The artist plays with an overlap between fact and fiction through the imagination of the Research Centre on Creative Abilities meandmywork.
The story in which meandmywork is ultimately set up as a fictitious character, over-identifies itself with the bureaucratic and corporate processes experienced in the business field of creativity incorporated. In order to leave the door open for speculation, the research is an artistic act of futuring: a process to think about the future, envision what may happen, and to gain insight into actions to take in the present.
Another part of the research enters the stage by means of an exhibition showcasing so called artefacts dating from The Bureaucreative Age and the journey of the Research Centre meandmywork, encouraging the viewer to step further inside its fiction.
The parafiction of The Bureaucreative Age and the Research Centre on Creative Abilities meandmywork as its lead role, produce their meaning in the encounter with the spectator, creating a specific multiplicity while introducing a fatalistic version of what might happen when art and creativity get absorbed by corporate dominion.
Read the fictional story of meandmywork in Forum+ (Februari 2021, vol. 28 nr.1).
The parafictional documentary meandmywork and the (Bureau)Creative Age and the accompanying exhibition were displayed at M HKA in Antwerp (24/02/2022 – 20/03/2022).
If you are interested in buying the publication of the research, please contact me.
WATCH THE DOCUFICTION
meandmywork and the (bureau)creative age
Chloé Dierckx
Arts-Based Knowledge Creation
Exploring ways to incorporate creative research dissemination praxis into academia
This research explores the potential of creative research dissemination praxis (CRDP), either as an alternative or as a supplement to standard written academic formats for research dissemination. With CRDP we refer to five major types of artistically inspired or design related creations: Interactions (games, websites, videos), Visual art forms (photographs, paintings, cartoons, still images, video productions, drawings, paintings,), Performing Arts (dance, drama, musical productions), Literary works (poetry, fictions, short stories, blogs, creative writing) and Projects (prototypes, designs, installations, 3D sculptures etc.) (Gergen & Gergen, 2011; Leavy, 2009; Wang, Coemans, Siegesmund & Hannes, 2017). The project focusses on how CRDP can be imbedded into an (educational) academic context and how arts-based techniques redefine knowledge creation.
The research is guided by following research questions:
- How does our recent historical and societal context influence our thinking and acting upon CRDP in academia?
Through a literature review and discourse analysis of student blog posts, we outline the educational and academic ideologies that currently define dissemination practices in social and behavioural sciences. We highlight the societal, ideological, and epistemological factors related to a shift from standard written dissemination to an inclusion of CRDP.
- How does CRDP operate within an academic context and how does it affect (student)researchers?
Through participative observation and an evaluation study, we have analyzed the effects of integrating CRDP in a pedagogical module. We did this on two levels: 1) How does the use of arts-based techniques influences student’s learning process? And 2) How does CRDP influence the transfer of complex theories to a peer student audience? Our results show that arts-based techniques encourage metaphorical thinking which enables students to better grasp abstract concepts. We have also found that arts-based works that are materially accurate, show connective relations and have a consequent narrative, are likely to increase the sense of understanding of the theory they aim to explain.
This research will also report on the personal process of the PhD researcher of using drawing as a method to both understand and disseminate new knowledge.
List of Publications
Articles
Dierckx, C., Zaman, B. & Hannes, K. (2025). Explaining Theory Through Artistic Metaphors, An evaluation of arts-based works created by social science students. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education
Hannes, K., Dierckx, C., & Jacobs, A. (2023). Artistieke ontwerppraktijken als onderzoeksbeleving en methode in academia. Cultuur+Educatie, 10 pages. (Accepted)
Dierckx, C., Zaman, B., & Hannes, K. (2022). Sparking the academic curriculum with creativity: Students’ dis- course on what matters in research dissemination practice. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 23 pages. doi:10.1177/14740222221132952
Dierckx, C., Hendricks, L., Coemans, S., & Hannes, K. (2021). The third sphere: Reconceptualising allyship in community-based participatory research praxis. Qualitative Research In Psychology, 1-25. doi:10.1080/14 780887.2020.1854402
Dierckx,C. & Hannes, K. (Joined first authorship)Troublesome Spaces In University Education, Creatively Trans- forming contemporary Feminist Theories Into matter, this article is currently in peer review for the journal Gender & Education.
Dierckx, C., Zaman, B., & Hannes, K. (In review) ‘Explaining Theory Through Artistic Metaphors, An evaluation of arts-based works by social science students’. This article is in review for publication in the journal Arts and Humanities in Higher Education.
Science outreach
Dierckx, C., Bengough, T., Hendricks, L., Idrees, S., Van Even, P., Vrebos, H., Hannes, K. (2021). Amarante Swift. Online. Retrieved from https://jongeacademie.be/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Amarante-Evaluation-PRE- SENTATION.pdf
Hannes, K., & Dierckx, C. (2022). Art and Society Class 2022-2023: Designing Social Theories in 2D/3D [Design]. Hannes, K., Dierckx, C., & Pasgang, K. (2020). Following the theories of Barad, Bennett, Butler and Braidotti
down to the rabbit hole. Class 2020. [Design].
Hannes, K., Van Even, P., & Dierckx, C. (2019). Following the theories of Barad, Bennett, Butler and Braidotti down to the rabbit hole [Design]. Conference proceeding
Dierckx, C., & Hannes, K. (2020). Thinking and Walking with Theory: on the Importance of Reading to Stimulate Reflexivity. In ECQI 2020 Proceedings: Qualitative Inquiry Towards Sustainability (pp. 25-35). St. Julians, Malta: European Network Qualitative Inquiry.
Bookchapters
Dierckx,C. (2023). Tadum Tadum, Touching the fragile through drawing. In Hannes, K., Hendricks, L., & Dierckx, C. (Eds.) Doing Fieldwork in Challenging Circumstances: Summoning Participatory Methods. Centrum voor Sociologisch Onderzoek, KU Leuven; Leuven.
Hannes, K., Dierckx, C. (Contributor) (2023). Developing a queer perspective on researcher assessment
in academia: a social media approach to transdisciplinary knowledge exchange. In Internation-
al Handbook of Research and Methods in Transdisciplinary Feminism (pp. 175-186). UK: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003303558-23
Dierckx, C., Swift, A. (collective author identity) (2022). Creative with resources in qualitative research. In The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Design (Vol. 1, pp. 15 pages). SAGE.
Hannes, K., Vrebos, H., Anthoni, E., & Dierckx, C. (2022). Protected Paradise. In Educational Fabulations: Teach- ing & Learning for a World Yet to Come (pp. 367-379). Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-93827- 7_29
Book review
Dierckx, C., Canoy, N., Schoffelen, J., Anthoni, E., Coemans, S., Hendricks, L., . . . Hannes, K. (2020). From Bubbles to foam, a nomadic interpretation of collaborative publishing: a review of Jorge Lucero and col- league’s article in art education.. Art/Research International, 5(1), 241-249.
Presentations
Dierckx, C., Hannes, K., & Zaman, B. (2022). Becoming Entangled, understanding post-human theories through creative designs. In European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Leuven.
Vrebos, H., Dierckx, C., Anthoni, E., & Hannes, K. (2022). Protected Paradise. In 5th European Congress of Quali- tative Inquiry. Leuven, Belgium.
Dierckx, C., Bengough, T., Hendricks, L., Idrees, S. S., Van Even, P., Vrebos, H., . . . Hannes, K. (2021). ‘Differing’ as a guiding principle in approaching researcher assessment. In International Congress of Qualitative In- quiry (17th edition). Illinois, US.
Dierckx, C., Hannes, K., & Zaman, B. (2019). Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse Applied to Creative Research Dissemination. In European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Hannes, K., Siegesmund, R., & Dierckx, C. (2021). An Analytical Apparatus for Visual Imagery applied in so- cial-behavioral research. In International Review of Qualitative Research. Illinois, US.
Poster presentations
Hendricks, L., Dierckx, C., Coemans, S., & Hannes, K. (2020). Sailing across time and space into a new sphere of participatory research with our [ally]ship. In 4th European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ECQI). Malta, Greece.
Hannes, K., Coemans, S., Anthoni, E., Bengough, T., Dierckx, C., Hendricks, L., . . . Wang, Q. (2020). Cutting Across the Matter/Meaning Divide with Artistic Inquiry: An Illustration of a Material-Discursive Apparatus. In 4th European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry 2020. Malta.
Hannes, K., Coemans, S., Bengough, T., Dierckx, C., Hendricks, L., Seutin, A., & Wang, Q. (2019). Cutting across the matter/meaning divide with artistic inquiry: An argument and an illustration of a material-discursive an- alytical apparatus that moves beyond numbers and narratives.. In The Visual Science of Art Conference. Leuven.
Books
De Vrieze, L., & Borgo, E. (2023). Open Ruimte Coalities, Op de schouders van 10 jaar Open Ruimte Platform. Public Space. (Artistic Contribution)
Hannes, K., Hendricks, L., & Dierckx, C. (2023). Doing Fieldwork in Challenging Circumstances: Summoning Par- ticipatory Methods (1 ed.). K. Hannes (Ed.), Leuven: Centrum voor Sociologisch Onderzoek, KU Leuven.
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