Systematically recording your creative process (sketches, versions, rehearsals, failures) so the making can be examined as evidence.
- +Fits Pragmatist Epistemology, Phenomenological Epistemology
- –Tension with Positivist Epistemology
Key thinkers: Donald Schön, Estelle Barrett, Barbara Bolt
The longer story
Practice documentation captures creative process, not just outcomes. Videos of studio work, photographs of iterations, saved drafts, material traces—all the evidence of making that usually gets thrown away. The goal is making process visible for analysis. What decisions did you make? What alternatives did you consider? How did the work develop? This matters for practice-based research where the knowledge is in the doing. But documentation changes practice: awareness of the camera, choosing what to record, performing for an audience of future self.