Co-Creativity and Engaged Scholarship : Transformative Methods in Social Sustainability Research

This open access book explores creative and collaborative forms of research praxis within the social sustainability sciences.

1. Introduction: Sustainability Science as Co-Creative Research Praxis.- 2. Painting Outside the Lines: Transgressing the Managerial University, Avoiding Forced Creativity.- 3. Cooking commoning subjectivities: guerrilla narrative in the Cooperation Birmingham solidarity kitchen.- 4. Participative and decolonial approaches in environmental history.- 5. An Ethos and Practice of Appreciation for Transformative Research: Appreciative Inquiry, Care Ethics, and Creative Method.- 6. Imaginative Leadership: A conceptual frame for the design and facilitation of creative methods and generative engagement.- 7. Insights and inspiration from explorative research into the impacts of a community arts project.- 8. How to nurture ground for arts-based co-creative practice in an invited space: reflections on a community in North Netherlands.- 9. Reflections on doing cross-cultural research through and with visual methods.- 10. The Eye of the Beholder: Applying visual analysis in an historical study of lynxes'' representations in the Bavarian Forest region.- 11. Back to the drawing board: creative mapping methods for inclusion and connection.- 12. ''Getting deep into things'': Deep mapping in a ''vacant'' landscape.- 13. Engaging ''future generations'' in meaning making through visual methods: an alternative approach to defining city-regions.- 14. Technology as a Tool for Environmental Engagement. The case of Digital Participatory Mapping (DPM).- 15. Living Labs: a creative and collaborative planning approach.- 16. Supporting institutional transformations: experimenting with reflexive and embodied cross-boundary research.- 17. How to make policy makers care about "wicked problems" such as biodiversity loss? - the case of a policy campaign.