Practice-based Research

A research approach, associated with Candy and Edmonds, in which creative practice itself is the vehicle for original inquiry and knowledge generation. Research questions arise from and are resolved through the making and performance of works, with tacit and embodied knowledge treated as legitimate outcomes alongside written reflection. In accessibility HCI, PbR is used to foreground the expertise of disabled artists, musicians, and performers as co-researchers, and to produce evidence — public performances, exhibitions, critical reception — that can sit alongside conventional evaluation metrics.