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At the start of my inquiry, I had only the object—the brooch itself—my emotional reaction to it, and the few lines of text on a curated museum card. I wondered, how do we create “spaces for remembrance”(Simon 2005) and what are the implications for teaching, learning and living in a just society? How are we accountable to Simon’s (2004) demand for “non-indifference?” Arts-based research methodologies such as historiographic poiesis have allowed me to merge the scholar and artist, to engage in research as an iterative process where deeper questions engender more complex and embodied responses, and to create an aesthetic intervention: an open, dialogic text and artworks that provoke new understandings of narratives previously overlooked.  \nKeywords: historiographic poiesis; arts and education; aesthetic inquiry; arts and social justice; historical consciousness; remembrance  \nKate Greenway (M.Ed, Ph.D in Education, York University)  \nKate’s master’s thesis “The Brooch of Bergen Belsen” which included original artwork and creative writing, won the Graduate Education Major Research Prize at York. After exhibition atthe Holocaust Resource Centre, Manhattan College, her artwork was donated to the Director of the Survivors’ Speakers Bureau for educational purposes.  \n[Email: Kate_Greenway@edu.yorku.ca](Email: Kate_Greenway@edu.yorku.ca)  \nAesthetic inquiry allows researchers to combine intellectual investigation with emotional connection, resulting in a more holistic and integrative approach to knowledge seeking, where academic inquiry co-exists with lived experience. The arts are themselves a vehicle for complexity, ambiguity, and expressing the inexpressible. In them, recipients engage in a dialectic that allows for the courage to take action on social justice issues that, presented solely through traditional methods, can render an audience paralyzed or unmoved. The task ofthe arts is always to humanize the abstract, or, conversely, expand upon the so-called quantifiable and knowable, in order to open up possibilities for discussion, revelation, and awareness. Aesthetic inquiry moves us from our heads to our hearts and back. It disallows passive engagement; instead, it calls us to rise from our indifference and to dispel with merely theoretical examinations. As a researcher, I have used aesthetic inquiry, specifically historiographic poiesis and art-making as inquiry, as research methodologies in both my masters and doctoral work in education. My master’s thesis, sparked by an encounter with a small art object, brought to light an individual story of the Holocaust, demonstrating the power of art to not only deliver hope in times of darkness, but also in acts of historiographic poiesis, as a means to try to comprehend an incomprehensible event and its implications for myself and my students in the present. I began my project unexpectedly, caught unawares in the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, on a school trip.  \nEncountering the Brooch  \nI lead approximately one hundred Canadian grade 11 students from Toronto along the Mall in Washington, walking in autumn sunshine that verges on the heat of summer. We are in the Holocaust Memorial Museum, an institute I have waited for, a stop I feel will be important for my research into remembrance and historical consciousness. A rather officious curator issues instructions and remonstrations. The students are respectful and only slightly restless at the lengthy preliminary instructions before being allowed to enter the site. 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