Animate Being – Tracing the Tacit through Jungian Arts Based Research

In seeking to extend Jung’s practice of the image to new mediums via speculative game design I am mobilising my art practice as a research methodology. My practice is one of speculative worlding where I use design processes as a means of structuring my explorations. Here I am working through an iterative design process. This is a cyclic process in which the designer will move through not once but repeatedly as they ideate, prototype, test, analyse and refine. This spiral movement creates a unique territory where I am able to reveal how ideas enter into, collide, move and develop through practice as research as visual forms. As part of my research I have documented this process in a ‘playbook’ and I am sharing extracts of this document with the IAJS community alongside a selection of interactive game vignettes.