In collaborative research, the ways in which complexity is acknowledged, negotiated and managed actively shape the nature of the complexity that is created and experienced. However, reports on complex projects seldom detail how challenges relating to research design or execution were navigated, nor discuss how frictions or tensions might productively disrupt conventional approaches. This article speaks from a collaborative autoethnographic inquiry undertaken by a team of researchers familiar with transdisciplinary research where disciplinary, methodological and collaborative complexity occurs. Our inquiry explores two interrelated curiosities; these being to scrutinise dilemmas arising in the research design for collaborative large‐scale research studies in and adjacent to art and design education; and to consider how collaborative autoethnography might enable and inhibit congruence in and for collaborative research endeavour. By reflecting on insights arising from the digging, questioning and reflecting processes of collaborative autoethnography methodology, this article scrutinises the authorship team's experiences of engaging in transdisciplinary research where disciplinary, methodological and collaborative complexities are encountered. From this, we point to potential benefits and challenges this approach presents for teams of diverse size, scale, scope and disciplines to navigate and negotiate complexity in research settings.

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协作自传民族志的艺术与设计：探索教育研究中的学科、方法论和协作复杂性


在合作研究中，承认、协商和管理复杂性的方式积极塑造了所创造和体验的复杂性的性质。然而，关于复杂项目的报告很少详细说明如何应对与研究设计或执行相关的挑战，也很少讨论摩擦或紧张局势如何有效地破坏传统方法。本文来自一个熟悉跨学科研究的研究人员团队进行的协作自体人种学调查，其中学科、方法论和协作的复杂性存在。我们的调查探讨了两个相互关联的好奇心;这些是审查在艺术和设计教育中及其相邻的协作式大规模研究的研究设计中出现的困境;并考虑协作自传民族志如何促进和抑制合作研究工作的一致性。通过反思协作自传民族志方法论的挖掘、质疑和反思过程中产生的见解，本文仔细审查了作者团队在遇到学科、方法论和协作复杂性的情况下从事跨学科研究的经验。由此，我们指出了这种方法为不同规模、规模、范围和学科的团队带来的潜在好处和挑战，以驾驭和协商研究环境中的复杂性。