ABSTRACT
This chapter recounts and reflects a research process carried out as a cooperative effort between a group of researchers, a group of young refugee men, a local NGO and arts professionals. The research was a part of ALL-YOUTH studies reaching out to diverse groups of young people including young refugees, exploring their views and experiences of participation in Finnish society. The discussion of the chapter is structured around four individual accounts of what happened in the research process in terms of knowledge construction. The authors utilise ideas from critical epistemology, making a distinction between knowledge and knowing, arguing that the former concept is too static to grasp the dynamic process of knowledge formation in a context defined by creative participatory methods and open, undefined research process. In this type of context, what is being generated epistemically is not necessarily a specifiable body of knowledge to be unproblematically conceptualised and represented to the science audiences, but rather a bundle of different kinds of subjectively sensed, constructed and constantly evolving knowing(s), which the participants endow with unique meanings and purposes.
