2019-01-072019-01-072018-11-222018-11-22DATJournal Design Art And Technology, 3(2), 9-42. Retrieved from https://ppgdesign.anhembi.br/datjournal/index.php/dat/article/view/852526-1789https://hdl.handle.net/10292/12131This article considers the concept of artistic research as an approach to knowledge generation and understanding. It begins with a brief consideration of the historical development of artistic inquiry and its relationship with research processes and artefacts. It then discusses a specific artistic PhD research project, “Magical realities – A creative consideration of the narrative and illustrative potentials of realismo maravilhoso”, as a form of a ‘creative-production’. The thesis project, which is formatted as a printed storybook, explores the potentials of polyvocal narration and syncretic illustration when aspects of a narrative can be digitally expanded. In actioning the iterative development of the research, a methodological framework is used that integrates heuristic inquiry and reflexive practice. Enabled through this are three interrelated methods: designer’s journals, iterative assembly,DATJournal provides immediate free access to its content, following the principle that providing free scientific knowledge provides for a greater global democratization of knowledge.Artistic research; Methodology; Methods; Polyvocality; Real-ismo maravilhosoJournal ArticleOpenAccess