Ecologies in Action: an emergent framework for thinking aesthetic thinking through aesthetic research practices

Cocker, E ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2985-7839, Wendel, N and Arteaga, A, 2025. Ecologies in Action: an emergent framework for thinking aesthetic thinking through aesthetic research practices. Journal for Artistic Research (38). ISSN 2235-0225 (Forthcoming)

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Abstract

Thinking aesthetic thinking through aesthetic research practices is a research project by Alex Arteaga, Emma Cocker, Nicole Wendel (and Sabine Zahn during the first phase). Over a period of two years (2020 – 2022), we came together within a series of intensive online encounters, to explore how aesthetic research practices might enable and realize a specific form of thinking: aesthetic thinking. Our shared enquiry has unfolded through exploration of the following questions:

* PRACTICES: How do specific aesthetic research practices enable or enhance aesthetic thinking? What kinds of practices can be developed, tested and shared?
* ECOLOGIES: How might we bring different practices into relation? How does the coexistence, coinciding and mutual conditioning of different practices enable or enhance aesthetic thinking?
* CONDITIONS: What are the conditions for aesthetic thinking, and how might these conditions be nurtured? What enables or supports the emergence of the conditions for aesthetic thinking?

During this project, we developed a novel framework called Ecologies in Action conceived as a dispositive (a way of organizing relationships) that, mobilized as an emerging method (from methodos — a course or way of travelling) allows us to share or practice. The novel form of the Ecologies in Action has enabled us to share our live enquiry with others directly, by witnessing a live Ecology in Action, or indirectly, through the recordings of the realized Ecologies and the artefacts generated therein (as we do within this exposition). This exposition is conceived to facilitate access to the practices, methods and conceptual framework of this project.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Journal for Artistic Research
Creators:	Cocker, E., Wendel, N. and Arteaga, A.
Publisher:	Society for Artistic Research
Date:	26 November 2025
Number:	38
ISSN:	2235-0225
Identifiers:	Number Type 2578737 Other
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham School of Art & Design
Record created by:	Jeremy Silvester
Date Added:	13 Mar 2026 11:08
Last Modified:	13 Mar 2026 11:08
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/55405

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