Mapping the Movement of Invention: collaboration as rhizome in teaching and research

The collaborative education research as art created by The (1+1+1) Collective is examined as heuretics, the movement of invention. Heuretics both enacts and documents the movement of the research process and therefore helps balance the biases, which are expressions of power, inherent in the means of expressing any inquiry. This methodology, which acts as a rhizome, offers a model for academic collaboration; it maps the movement of invention by enacting moves provoked by the heuristic of chance as in the example of process art, which can be understood philosophically in terms of Deleuzian ontology and Deleuze & Guattari's conceptualisation of philosophy as one of the three great forms of thought. Throughout the article, connections are made to teacher education and research, and it is suggested that understanding the value of heuretics can help the teacher and the researcher avoid methodological fundamentalism. Philosophy, science, and art want us to tear open the firmament and plunge into the chaos. We defeat it only at this price. (Deleuze & Guattari, 1994, p. 202)