Practiceopolis: From an Imaginary City to a Graphic Novel

The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.This essay is about a graphic novel produced as the culmination of a creative practice research project. It dramatizes real-life exchanges from project management meetings held during the conduct a live architectural project in the UK, re-siting those exchanges to an imaginary city as high-stakes public debates. The graphic novel depicts these exchanges as value-conflicts in order to examine the ideologies at work among architects and other actors in the construction industry. The research represents a special creative space that challenges design research practices in order to create new strategies and methods for design as scholarship