Poetizations as an A/R/Tographical Approach:Students’ Engagement as Aesthetic Resonance in Museum Education

In this chapter, we present poetizations as a methodological approach to a/r/tography and as an analytical framework. Poetizations, on the one hand, are short scenes that visualize the cacophony of voices, sounds, and ideas filling the participants' minds and tell an open-ended story about a situation from multiple perspectives at once. On the other hand, poetizations are analyses of participants’ sensory experiences and imaginations, grounded in an abductive analytical framework that combines theory and artistic processes to enable analysis. As such, we argue that poetizations offer a valuable proposition for a/r/tography (Irwin et al. 2018), and we aim to advance it.