ABSTRACT
The research interest behind this book is multi-layered. It is a multidimensional expression of an action researcher engaging with the practical, theoretical and democratic aspects of furthering sustainability in its broadest sense. The Danish artist Per Kirkeby has portrayed the process of painting as a lengthy process of adding still more layers to a picture (Kirkeby 1996; Morell 2004). Every new layer added interferes with the canvas, and thus adding new colours might cover, blur or accentuate deeper layers of the picture. While the viewer of the final picture is only able to see the final expression of the artistic process, no layer that is added ever disappears from the canvas, but is part of the process towards the definite expression. I guess writing is a bit the same, except there is no final expression, only the epistemological limits of time, encouraging the writer to publish the work.
