Hilary Bradbury, PhD., Curator, AR+ Action Research Plus Foundation, International

• Contents: Foreword: ART revitalizes social science by Kenneth J. Gergen Foreword: ARTists’ practice field of friendship by Otto Scharmer Personal invitation: Welcome to getting personal with ART PART I GROUNDINGS 1. Setting the table: How to Do Action Research Transformations 2. Starting action research transformations 3. Three spaces of ART: Relational, conceptual and experimental 4. Seven quality choicepoints of ART 5. Contemporary action research at a time of apocalypse PART II PRACTICE AT THE DEVELOPMENTAL EDGE 6. Developmental friendship 7. Stages of developmental feedback, power and collaborative action 8. Microworlds proliferating: Healing communities PART III MAKING CARING VISIBLE 9. Repurposing social science as ART 10. Distill, deliver and proliferate your ART 11. Relational Math and Circus: Deeper practice ofdevelopmental reflexivity 12 Game-changing coLABoratorship 13. Capacity-building for the ARTist’s repertoire Afterword: ART in the developmental space between community and university Tomas Björkman Appendix 1: What do we mean by “sustainability”? What does it look like in practice? by Christopher L. Juniper Appendix 2: ART conceptual and practice resources – Annotated short list Index

‘Experience the book yourself, see what it speaks to you, identify your developmental edges, check out all its resources and go back to it again and again as I know I will. The invitation in this book is to commit to a journey of life-long learning, making sure that our microworlds proliferate to a scale that repairs our ailing democracies and makes, as Bradbury puts it, our planet beautiful and hospitable again.’

Hilary Bradbury, PhD., Curator, AR+ Action Research Plus Foundation, International

• Contents: Foreword: ART revitalizes social science by Kenneth J. Gergen Foreword: ARTists’ practice field of friendship by Otto Scharmer Personal invitation: Welcome to getting personal with ART PART I GROUNDINGS 1. Setting the table: How to Do Action Research Transformations 2. Starting action research transformations 3. Three spaces of ART: Relational, conceptual and experimental 4. Seven quality choicepoints of ART 5. Contemporary action research at a time of apocalypse PART II PRACTICE AT THE DEVELOPMENTAL EDGE 6. Developmental friendship 7. Stages of developmental feedback, power and collaborative action 8. Microworlds proliferating: Healing communities PART III MAKING CARING VISIBLE 9. Repurposing social science as ART 10. Distill, deliver and proliferate your ART 11. Relational Math and Circus: Deeper practice ofdevelopmental reflexivity 12 Game-changing coLABoratorship 13. Capacity-building for the ARTist’s repertoire Afterword: ART in the developmental space between community and university Tomas Björkman Appendix 1: What do we mean by “sustainability”? What does it look like in practice? by Christopher L. Juniper Appendix 2: ART conceptual and practice resources – Annotated short list Index

‘Experience the book yourself, see what it speaks to you, identify your developmental edges, check out all its resources and go back to it again and again as I know I will. The invitation in this book is to commit to a journey of life-long learning, making sure that our microworlds proliferate to a scale that repairs our ailing democracies and makes, as Bradbury puts it, our planet beautiful and hospitable again.’

Hilary Bradbury, PhD., Curator, AR+ Action Research Plus Foundation, International

• Contents: Foreword: ART revitalizes social science by Kenneth J. Gergen Foreword: ARTists’ practice field of friendship by Otto Scharmer Personal invitation: Welcome to getting personal with ART PART I GROUNDINGS 1. Setting the table: How to Do Action Research Transformations 2. Starting action research transformations 3. Three spaces of ART: Relational, conceptual and experimental 4. Seven quality choicepoints of ART 5. Contemporary action research at a time of apocalypse PART II PRACTICE AT THE DEVELOPMENTAL EDGE 6. Developmental friendship 7. Stages of developmental feedback, power and collaborative action 8. Microworlds proliferating: Healing communities PART III MAKING CARING VISIBLE 9. Repurposing social science as ART 10. Distill, deliver and proliferate your ART 11. Relational Math and Circus: Deeper practice ofdevelopmental reflexivity 12 Game-changing coLABoratorship 13. Capacity-building for the ARTist’s repertoire Afterword: ART in the developmental space between community and university Tomas Björkman Appendix 1: What do we mean by “sustainability”? What does it look like in practice? by Christopher L. Juniper Appendix 2: ART conceptual and practice resources – Annotated short list Index

‘Experience the book yourself, see what it speaks to you, identify your developmental edges, check out all its resources and go back to it again and again as I know I will. The invitation in this book is to commit to a journey of life-long learning, making sure that our microworlds proliferate to a scale that repairs our ailing democracies and makes, as Bradbury puts it, our planet beautiful and hospitable again.’