Donna Frost

Design and methods 87 4 in the latter stages of the inquiry. In the next chapter (Chapter 5 ) I will describe among other things how the two inquiry groups started out and how they differed from each other, both of which give insight into how aspects of the inquiry process looked while the CCCI methodology was still ‘coming into being’. Here I begin by presenting an overview of the CCCI design using both illustrations (Figure 4 . 1 and Figure 4 . 2 ) and textual description. Relevant literature is then presented before the detailed description of the specific elements of the design. Critical creative collaborative inquiry: overviewof the design A CCCI requires the forming of an inquiry group made up of people interested in working together, overanextendedperiod, tocritically, creativelyandcollaboratively investigate a phenomenon of interest in their professional or personal lives. Figure 4 . 1 provides a visual metaphor for how the CCCI methodology looked in practice. Figure 4 . 1 Critical creative collaborative inquiry – visual metaphor The central orange disk in Figure 4 . 1 represents the phenomenon of interest, in this case professional artistry. The purple-ish spots represent the participants in the CCCI group, including myself as initiating researcher. The red circle is the boundary