In an effort to challenge the ways in which colonial power relations and Eurocentric knowledges are reproduced in participatory research, this book explores whether and how it is possible to use arts-based methods for creating more horizontal and democratic research practices.

Tiina Seppälä is a senior researcher at the University of Lapland, Finland.

Melanie Sarantou is a senior researcher at the University of Lapland, Finland.

Satu Miettinen is a professor in service design at the University of Lapland, Finland.

1. Introduction: Arts-Based Methods for Decolonising Participatory Research SECTION I: Co-Creation, Collaboration, Movement 2. Co-Creation Through Quilting: Connected Entanglements and Disruptions With Care 3. In Touch With the Mindful Body: Moving With Women and Girls at the Za'atari Refugee Camp 4. Towards Just Dance Research: An uMunthu Participatory and Performative Inquiry Into Malawian-Norwegian Entanglements 5. Participatory Photography With Women's Rights Activists in Nepal: Towards a Practice of Decolonial Feminist Solidarity? SECTION II: Participatory Service Design 6. Archipelagos of Designing Through Ko -Ontological Encounters 7. Building a Community Through Service Design and Responsiveness to Emotions 8. Developing the Relational Dimension of Participatory Design Through Creativity-Based Methods 9. Navigating Uncertainty: Developing the Facilitator's Role Through Participatory Service Design Workshops SECTION III: Artistic Research and Practice 10. Decoloniality of Knowing and Being: Artistic Research Through Collaborative Craft Practice 11. The Flying Ants and the Beauty of Ice 12. Paint That Place With Light! Light Painting as a Means of Creating Attachment to Historical Locations-An Arts-Based Action Research Project 13. John Savio's Art as a Part of Early Sámi Decolonisation in the 1920s and 1930s