Creative Critical Reconstruction as Methodology: A Concept Note

This paper emerges from practice-led research that has given rise to two linked methodological contributions requiring clear articulation and distinction. It introduces visual–poetic analytical units as a method: a precise analytical form in which image, poetic language, and critical interpretation are brought into relation to generate meaning. It also establishes creative critical reconstruction as the broader methodology: the structuring approach through which incomplete narratives, marginalised accounts, and flattened voices are not simply recovered but critically reconfigured and reactivated. The paper places equal emphasis on both contributions, insisting that the method cannot be separated from the methodological architecture that animates it, and that the methodology finds concrete expression through the method. In doing so, it addresses the limits of conventional qualitative approaches when faced with affective, embodied, and layered forms of knowledge. The result is a framework for interdisciplinary analysis that expands how meaning can be produced, interpreted, and claimed