Post Studio Methods: Being SciCurious as a Site for Research

Citation: Ward-Davies, Ana, Branislava Godic, Sarah Healy, Kathryn Coleman, Catriona Nguyen-Robertson, Niels Wouters, James Urlini, and Jarrah Shubsmith. 2020. ‘Post Studio Methods: Being Scicurious as a Site for Research’. Journal of Artistic and Creative Education 14 (2).

In their 2020 article Post Studio Methods: Being SciCurious as a Site for Research, Coleman et al. examine SciCurious, an initiative at Science Gallery Melbourne involving young people aged 15–25 who contribute to shaping the gallery's exhibitions and programmes.

SciCurious exists within a post-studio paradigm, devoid of any fixed site or disciplinary framework. It emphasises collaboration and curiosity, operating without the common disciplinary constraints that can determine conventional spaces. Scicuriosity instead emerges as a post-studio practice of (un)sited, lived research. Informed by critical autoethnographic practice, this article takes up a narrative approach to explore the role of physical site (or lack thereof) and the role of curiosity in contemporary research. In order to unravel SciCurious as a research (un)site, the authors engage with, and present da(r)tafacts of, two data-events which the co-research team refer to as ‘zine travels’ and ‘the hundreds’. In so doing, this article questions how we can disentangle disciplinary knowledge to make way for collaborative interdisciplinary, intergenerational research.