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This chapter aims to share arts-based inquiry and its implications, and present results showing how this learning approach can produce answers not previously seen, given value or discovered. In arts-based inquiry, one can access sensuous and embodied knowledge, foster creativity and reflexivity and uncover deeper and more authentic solutions through deliberate identification with a chosen artefact or symbol. The main setting is a tailor-made course at Oslo Metropolitan University. This non-traditional program aims to develop the participants’ creative skills and improve their ability to create change and innovation in their personal and working lives. Meltzer illustrates the method and its results through a number of examples and pictures.
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Meltzer, C. (2019). Using Arts-Based Inquiry as a Way to Communicate Creatively in Uncovering the Future. In: Antonacopoulou, E., Taylor, S. (eds) Sensuous Learning for Practical Judgment in Professional Practice. Palgrave Studies in Business, Arts and Humanities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98863-4_7
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