Taking the form of an open conversation, the workshop draws on the qualitative research conducted by Wasana Handapangoda as part of the MSCA-funded DoingDOM research project at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, with insights from exchanges within the Creative Methods Open Lab at the University of Bergamo. This conversation with Micol Pizzolati centres on the real-time, practical, and shifting choices that shape research in action when creative and embodied approaches are mobilised