ABSTRACT
In narrative inquiry, retelling points toward the inquiry as participants and researchers inquire into the lived and told stories through the three-dimensional narrative inquiry space of temporality, place, and sociality. In the narrative inquiry from which the fragments of the narrative account with Tara are taken, the study was designed with a starting point of living stories that is, of living alongside. A group of researchers designed an art club within a school as a way to come alongside youth of Aboriginal heritage who could become possible research participants in a narrative inquiry. As Downey and Clandinin wrote, Unexpectedness also lives in, and through, the unfolding relationship between researchers and participants. For each narrative inquiry, setting the criteria requires us to return again to ontological commitments and the three-dimensional narrative inquiry space. Place, the third dimension, draws our attention to the specific concrete, physical, and topological boundaries of place or sequence of places where the inquiry and events take place.
