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This Tilde publication is the first from the Department of Creative Studies to focus on artistic research by gathering together our past, ongoing as well as future artistic research processes. The intention is to showcase the position we are currently in as a department navigating the field of artistic research. The theme of the publication is processes. The starting point is that we must be patient. We cannot rush such a process. Still, challenges need to be met with actions. In so doing, questions arise. We stumble, we fall, we rise, analyse, and move forward. We believe that we learn through experience, which is not linear. Sometimes, we learn from actions in the past. Other times, we learn in the moment of creating. An artistic action will trigger a reflective reaction. An artistic failure may be a research breakthrough. We believe that the artistic actions, the doing, the process of practising our art is the key parameter for feeding an artistic research process. Namely, the artistic activity must be embraced and the skills and knowledge embodied by the artist seen as a tool in the research activity. There is a long tradition at the Department of Creative Studies of conducting research within educational science in visual art, crafts/sloyd and music. Accordingly, our previous educational research has often included interdisciplinary approaches to our art subjects. In recent years, artistic research has grown in importance at the department. Besides the aim of artistic research to generate new knowledge to an artistic practice, it holds the potential to add new insights to the educational scientific field regarding practical, embodied and tacit knowledge, and new understandings of aesthetic activities and experiences.