The long arc of research is less a process of mastery than of discovering just how little we know.  Learning more reveals much more to learn, and knowing more doesn't always engender wisdom or amplify holistic insight.  Research explores a complex terrain with no overhead view.  Where do we turn?  How do we turn?  In this year’s continuation of Research and the Artistic (Im)pulse we bring together scholars, scientists, and artists to discuss research and creative inquiry as strategies of collective orientation and wayfinding with limited tools and inchoate goals in an infinite field of possibility.  How can abstraction, divination, and strategic limitation help precipitate purpose or meaning?  Beyond asking what will happen, how should we decide what to do?