Experimental qualitative methods

Experimental qualitative methods are qualitative inquiry processes that utilize experimentation, creativity, and imagination. This entry pays particular attention to the multiplicity, poly-dimension, and unthought associated with methodological-poly-experiments and continuously diversifying creative methodological practices. It is important to note that this entry is not about “experiments” as objective procedures to validate hypothesis or test predetermined onto-epistemological assumptions; rather the language of “experiment” is used to approach the concept from the framework of ontological differences. In addition, this entry generates diverse and multiplying axles and is a methodological and representational experiment of its own. This entry conceptualizes experimentation in different ways to acknowledge the diverse processual, intellectual, and methodologic examining; testing; and forays that take place when scholars extend discourses and habits of thought as well as extend on common routines that seem to become habitual practice in research projects. Methodological experimentation is difficult to pin down with a singular author, text, meaning, practice, discipline, tradition, discourse, or even example because it can vary in scale and impact as experimentations are diversifying practices of knowing. Instead of focusing on conceptual singularity and practical linearity of the methodological past, this entry and seemingly fragmented thoughts within it are united through the concept of “poly” and multiplicity of methodologies across different axels and frames.