thinking aesthetic thinking through aesthetic research practices is a research project by Alex Arteaga, Emma Cocker, and Nicole Wendel (and Sabine Zahn during the first phase). Over a period of two years (2020–22), we came together within a series of intensive online encounters, to explore how aesthetic research practices might enable and realise a specific form of thinking: aesthetic thinking. Our shared enquiry has unfolded through exploration of the following questions: