Action Research refers to projects and study based in practice, that articulate ideas through their doing, defining a new field or vision. Rather than centering research as an intellectual process that can be supported by practice, art, ritual, or embodiment, these projects and events are understood and designed through the practices themselves- how they come to be, how they are embedded in context, and how they are enacted in life. This kind of research is one facet in a intent to decolonize learning, re-membering the "inheritance" of connectivity, stripping away the mind-body-earth divide, the limitations, and the extractive nature of the colonial imperative. Action research brings forth an integrative, engaged, regenerative practice of study. As Fred Moten and Stephano Harney define "study" in the Undercommons and beyond, - a radical approach to learning, sharing practice together, fugitivity, a learning drawn from the praxis of black radical tradition that supports and extends as it dismantles control, through ensembles of social life. action research is inspired from disparate approaches such as the feldenkrais method, emergent strategies, the undercommons, gregory bateson, and so many more.
