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Form, Fit And Flair: Considering The Design Doctorate, Laurene Vaughan, Andrew Morrison
Form, Fit And Flair: Considering The Design Doctorate, Laurene Vaughan, Andrew Morrison
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Across the domains of design education the Design PhD is an area of much contemporary discussion and debate internationally. As the field of the discipline of design matures, so does its relationship with this qualification: its form, methods and relevance within and beyond the academy. In this paper, the authors critically reflect on their respective observations of differing models of undertaking design PhDs and subsequent models of submission and examination. Founded in their observations of the diversity of design PhDs pedagogically and structurally, the authors have begun a global mapping of current PhDs in design and are exploring how the …
Counter-Design: Alternative Design And Research Methods, Joshua Singer
Counter-Design: Alternative Design And Research Methods, Joshua Singer
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Art is critical in its ability to propose an alternative to an accepted reality, and produces a counter-consciousness; a “negation of the realistic-conformist mind” [Marcuse, 1979, p 9] Communication design, is a formalized practice embedded in and serving conventional cultural production and capital. An alternative counterdesign “…chooses instead to emphasize the need for a renewal of philosophical discourse and for social and political involvement as a way of bringing about structural changes in our society.” [Lang, 2005, p. 46.] For communication design to dismiss its conventional service to capital is in itself a critical negation. Additionally, communication design’s prescribed functions …
The Scholarship Of Teaching: Threshold Concepts And Research Informed Design Education, Jane Osmond
The Scholarship Of Teaching: Threshold Concepts And Research Informed Design Education, Jane Osmond
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This paper considers the growing body of established scholarly research culture in the creative arts: which, it is argued, is in the process of ‘catching up’ with more established disciplines such as science, history and economics. This slow growth is linked to the need for practitioner-focused lecturers within the discipline, some of whom have little engagement with scholarly theory before entering the academy. The paper then goes onto consider the introduction of a particular theory - the threshold concept framework - to a cohort of industrial design staff at Coventry University and outlines some of the main impacts on both …