Doing Doctorates Differently: Creating a multi-dimensional doctoral object

Creating a 'multi-dimensional doctoral object' was a creative research activity developed for Doing Doctorates Differently. The piece explored how doctoral thought might be encountered as a material, spatial and dimensional object rather than only as written argument. Working with fragments from five years of doctoral notes, the activity considered how a thesis accumulates, tears, folds, exceeds, and re-forms through the pressures of study.

The work asks what happens when a doctorate is not treated as a linear document moving toward completion, but as a multi-dimensional object in formation: part archive, part method, part conceptual experiment. Through acts of cutting, arranging, layering and remaking, the activity reflected on the labour of making unconventional doctoral research legible without reducing its complexity to already recognisable academic forms.

The piece contributes to conversations in postqualitative research, doctoral experimentation, research creation and arts-based enquiry by foregrounding the material processes through which thought is made, unmade and encountered.