ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines a basic mapping framework for targeting or identifying new knowledge through the process of practice-based research. Part 1 presents a common problem experienced by practice-based researchers, that of the difficulty of consolidating the nature of the process of research with the nature of practice. To deal with this, I introduce Bergson’s notion of analysis and intuition as defining two modes of knowledge: outside-looking-in and inside-looking-out. I present a way of understanding practice-based research as a consolidation of these two types. Central to understanding this consolidation of practice and research is a visual metaphor, which I describe and then offer an exemplar of how new knowledge in practice-based research can be identified through its use. Part 2 of this chapter describes the mapping framework and the underlying theories that support it. Part 3 presents several examples of mapping in use. This mapping framework will be of use to PhD students, first-time practice-based researchers and supervisors in developing an understanding of the specific nature of their research projects, and the development of a more systematic and targeted focus to investigating new knowledge in practice-based research.
