thinking aesthetic thinking through aesthetic research practices is a research project by Alex Arteaga, Emma Cocker, Nicole Wendel (and Sabine Zahn during the first phase). Over a period of two years (2020 – 2022), we came together within a series of intensive online encounters, to explore how aesthetic research practices might enable and realize a specific form of thinking: aesthetic thinking. This exposition shares the research process of this collaborative project, tracing its key phases between June 2020 - October 2022 and the gradual evolution of an original research dispositive or apparatus which we call Ecologies in Action.