How Our Work Lives

Every project at Axiology Clinic begins in our framework: the layered relationship between axiology, the principles of Disability Justice, and the lived structures of healthcare. These layers shape how we ask questions, how we understand evidence, and how we make meaning with others. They also guide the responsibilities we carry into each collaboration.

Although our work is organized here by the primary mode of practice: community-based work, evidence synthesis, or research-creation, most projects gather across multiple modes. A community-rooted inquiry may rely upon data generated through a scoping review; a synthesis project may be guided by a question that arose through creative or speculative methods; a research-creation project may be grounded in the relational ethics of community practice, and so on.

This movement between modes is not incidental, because, for us, these modes do not have spaces between them. Rather, these three modes of practice overlap. Working in the overlapping places reflects the complexity of the questions we sit with, and the reality that no single method can hold the full weight of lived experience, embodied knowledge, systemic conditions, and the values that shape care.

What follows is a collection of our projects, organized for clarity, but connected by a shared orientation: to understand how value circulates, how care takes form, and how knowledge becomes livable in the world.

Community-Based Work

We only work with communities we are part of. Our community-based projects begin with the knowledge held in relationships, places, imaginations, and lived experiences that move through our own circles. Community-based work is where our questions often take form. These projects centre relational ethics, attending to the excitements and longings of those who share our ecosystems of care.

Evidence Synthesis

Our evidence synthesis projects use standardized methodologies—such as scoping reviews, qualitative systematic reviews, and evidence-and-gap maps—to rigorously map a defined body of evidence. We work with evidence across multiple epistemic lineages, including scientific literature, disability and Mad scholarship, community research, oral-history traditions, experiential research, and embodied inquiry. Each tradition is treated on its own terms, with its own protocols. By synthesizing across these lineages without collapsing them, we examine what becomes visible, legible, or possible when diverse evidence traditions are held in relation.

Research-Creation

Our research-creation projects work through the understanding that form and aesthetics are themselves modes of thought. Following research-creation traditions, making is not an illustration of research but a method through which knowledge emerges. These projects engage material, affective, sensory, and compositional processes to think with questions that cannot be approached through analytic methods alone.