Facet Methodology – a creative research orientation

Presentation for the Late Life Creativity NetworkUniversity of Keele, 16 March 2012

Jennifer MasonRealities at the Morgan Centre University of Manchesterwww.manchester.ac.uk/morgancentre/realities

Some problems with social science methods

Sterility, life wrung out Experience? Resonance? Lacking in multi-sensory ‘aliveness’ Enumerative logic Categories, typologies, compromises,

separations Rules and orthodoxies rather than creativity

and inventiveness

Facet Methodology

An orientation, not a set of procedures Inventiveness. A playful approach to

epistemology A visual metaphor, used gently

Facet Methodology

A connective and ‘entangled’ ontology – experience of being alive, living in the world

Facet Methodology

Facets as always methodological and substantive

Facet Methodology

Flashes of insight

Facet Methodology

Casting and refracting light

Facet Methodology

‘Troubling’ existing assumptions and perspectives

Facet Methodology

Playing with epistemologies – astuteness, openness, empathy, humility, inventiveness

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Mason, J. (2011) ‘Facet Methodology: the case for an inventive research orientation’, Methodological Innovations Online, Vol. 6,

No. 2, ‘Crossing Boundaries’ http://www.pbs.plym.ac.uk/mi/

www.manchester.ac.uk/morgancentre/realities