Benefits and Drawbacks of Creative Research & Practice

If you were wondering: why do creative research, or why apply these creative methods in my practice? Here’s a small overview of benefits and drawback you might consider. Nothing is ever a silver bullet, and likely no one method or approach can do everything we need. But at MobileWorlds we invite you to consider this option as a potentially very valuable one. Sometimes immediate returns aren’t everything, and taking a small risk can make a big contribution…

Benefits

• Challenging or balancing out more technocratic and/or narrative-based ways of working / thinking
• Communicating more deeply
• Having to think about communication and representation of ideas (conceptual or physical)
• Triggering creativity

Drawbacks 

• It might go wrong / not give you what you expected/wanted
• Challenging for some (but remember, verbal or narrative communication is even harder for some others)
• If you want a straight-forward answer, this might not be the best method
• Takes time and materials