Abstract
Abstract Creative practice in the Japanese martial art of Aikidō involves constantly reassessing one’s situation and priorities by blending with, and maintaining control of, relational interactions to generate collaborative strategies from a variety of positions. This article describes how, as a design researcher, drawing-acts enabled me to conceptualize the co-creative possibilities of Aikidō movement practices. This design-led ethnography combined autoethnography and visual ethnography to explore the process of design drawing to visualize my lived experience, and the drawing of design (practice) as a way of documenting my experiences of movement. Drawings are not just lines: over time drawing-acts illuminated how Aikidō movement practices are a way of leading – designing – co-creative relationships between people within collective creativity.
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