“Imagine if… stepping into someone’s shoes” as a research method

Abstract

This article investigates and discusses how a fictional framework can be used as a method for research within the field of drama, and how this approach makes researchers understand the situated moments that are researched. The fictional framework is part of a larger research project which focuses on drama with people living with dementia. The article combines artistic practice-based research with a sensory as well as an auto-ethnographic approach, as the practitioners’ family-relations (as mother and daughter) are explored and reflected upon as integral to the method. The article contributes to knowledge production regarding fictional frame in research and reflects on its significance for work with people experiencing dementia.

Keywords

• Fictional frame in research
• “not me…not not me”
• dementia
• next of kin
• autobiography
• Fiksjonsrammer i forskning
• «ikke meg
• ikke ikke meg»
• demens
• pårørende
• autobiografi