ABSTRACT
Deleuze calls for an experimentation with thinking and language in order to 'palpate' the subject and 'conjugate' thought with life, suggesting that to improvise is to join in with the world, or meld with it. A research study is a framing of attention upon a subject, with the research question, the language and methodology forming the lens through which meaning and knowledge can be constructed. Researchers have sought conceptual and methodological tools capable of engaging with everyday experience, acknowledging that the ostensibly banal, low key, everyday things, places, embodiments and events can matter profoundly. Play occupies the borderline between fiction and reality where anything is possible as imaginative and 'real' life merge in flexible and unpredictable directions. The significance of creative methodologies is that they explicitly draw attention to the ways in which beings encounter the world.
