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TRANSITIONAL PRACTICE
STUDIO: 09.DEC.2025

I recently discovered Derek Pigrum’s Teaching creativity: Multi-mode transitional practices (2012) and have been really moved by it. It articulates an open-ended space for creative arts research that resonates with my own experiences of creative practice. I came across it in searching for materials for my Creative Research classes next year, but it is swiftly becoming an excellent tool for my own making and thinking.

Pigrum outlines three modes: That of the sign, the operation, and the place. To each of these modes are ascribed four expressions of the specified mode. These expressions are provocations for both analysis and ideation, connecting the researcher to what Pigrim identifies as registers for creative practice.

What’s more, it is also a fabulous tool for textual analysis. I’ve been using it to identify the modes and expressions at play in the story of the Tower of Bablel. Having a model to feed back into the writing from the studio is something that has been missing for me. I’ve been feeding so much theory into the studio. This is theory also; however, it is studio-theory that I can use to analyse the writing. This is a boon, and I’m looking forward to seeing how it is productive in all the ‘places’ of making and writing.

Category
Creative research methods, methodology, analysis, studio-practice, creativity

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