An interdisciplinary working meeting on research methods involving the researcher, her/his emotionality and corporality. The meeting will start with both researchers presenting their experiences and research area in the fields ranging from sociology, urban studies as well as theatre study and pedagogy. They will describe the methods and techniques that are based on the participation and involvement of the researcher.

An important aspect of this discussion will be the present experiences with the implementation of the methods and participating observation in the KNOT project.

The body is our first medium through which we are able to get to know the surrounding reality - to see, touch, taste and understand things. It is shaped by daily routine and everyday practices. Sometimes it gets corrupt by embodied ideologies and affects our understanding of the world. In other cases, it may turn out to be the place of resistance, an alternative source of power for emancipation discourse by making it stronger, shifting, giving it a new meaning.

The body is also a tool of perception, used more and more often not only in the field of arts but also in social studies. Still, however, discussions and writings on bodily experience as a legitimate and vital source of information on social relations are being put on the sidelines of scientific discourse. During the workshops, Julia Kluzowicz, Joanna Erbel and Roman Dziadkiewicz will discussion, with the participation of the audience, the question of researcher’s body, its potential, problems with translating a bodily experience into scientific discourse, being seduced by the subject studied, bodily satisfaction from research work as well as balancing between involvement and objectivizing distance and self-censorship that cut the researcher from his/her bodily experience.