This project examines how fieldwork can enhance place-based research-creation and
curriculum development in art education by considering when artmaking constitutes
fieldwork in its own right. Often termed an ethnographic and anthropological approach,
this work takes an expansive view of fieldwork, considering how artmaking can offer deep
investigations into both the human and non-human workings of place. This project focuses
primarily on methodology, aiming to both theorize and develop procedures for artist
teachers and artist-researchers. This inquiry will be conducted through the following
questions:
• How can place-based practices rooted in methods of research-creation be used as
fieldwork for curriculum development and qualitative research?
• What does artmaking as fieldwork offer to understanding the inner workings of
place?

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Since autumn, 2024, we have been working in Montreal's Shaughnessy Village, a downtown neighborhood adjacent to Concordia University.