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Designing the interface between research, learning and teaching.
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This paperâs central argument is that teaching and research need to be reshaped so that they connect in a productive way. This will require actions at a whole range of levels, from the individual teacher to the national system and include the international communities of design scholars. To do this, we need to start at the level of the individual teacher and course team. This paper cites some examples of strategies that focus on what students do as learners and how teachers teach and design courses to enhance research-led teaching.
The paper commences with an examination of the departmental context of (art and) design education. This is followed by an exploration of what is understood by research-led teaching and a further discussion of the dimensions of research-led teaching. It questions whether these dimensions are evident, and if so to what degree in design departments, programmes and courses. The discussion examines the features of research-led departments and asks if a department is not research-led in its approach to teaching, why it should consider changing strategies
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Research methods and methodologies for studying organisational learning
The purpose of this paper is to compare and evaluate the main research methods and methodologies
for studying organisational learning (OL), and propose a framework for their selection. It presents a
comprehensive review of literature on OL, learning organisation (LO) and research methods and
reports evidence on recent developments in research methods for studying OL. The paper highlighted
on the purists and pragmatistsâ views of research methodologies as basis of the study. The results
revealed that the research methods and methodologies for studying OL do not reflect on the differing
views of the purists and pragmatistsâ debate but rather conform to the convergence ideologies of the
two camps. Particularly, the outcomes augment the use of triangulation and suggest that the choice of
method(s) should be consistent with research aims and epistemological philosophy of OL.
Consequently, the study recommends OL Research Methods Framework as a useful guide for selecting
a suitable approach in the area. The paper recommends ethnography for future research
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Game design research: an introduction to theory & practice
Design research is an active academic field covering disciplines such as architecture, graphic, product, service, interaction, and systems design. Design research aims to understand not only the designed end products but also how design as an activity unfolds. The book demonstrates different approaches to design research in game design research
Research Methods for Non-Representational Approaches of Organizational Complexity. The Dialogical and Mediated Inquiry
This paper explores the methodological implications of non-representational approaches of organizational complexity. Representational theories focus on the syntactic complexity of systems, whereas organizing processes are predominantly characterized by semantic and pragmatic forms of complexity. After underlining the contribution of non-representational approaches to the study of organizations, the paper warns against the risk of confining the critique of representational frameworks to paradoxical dichotomies like intuition versus reflexive thought or theorizing versus experimenting. To sort out this difficulty, it is suggested to use a triadic theory of interpretation, and more particularly the concepts of semiotic mediation, inquiry and dialogism. Semiotic mediation dynamically links situated experience and generic classes of meanings. Inquiry articulates logical thinking, narrative thinking and experimenting. Dialogism conceptualizes the production of meaning through the situated interactions of actors. A methodological approach based on those concepts, âthe dialogical and mediated inquiryâ (DMI), is proposed and experimented in a case study about work safety in the construction industry. This interpretive view requires complicating the inquiring process rather than the mirroring models of reality. In DMI, the inquiring process is complicated by establishing pluralist communities of inquiry in which different perspectives challenge each other. Finally the paper discusses the specific contribution of this approach compared with other qualitative methods and its present limits.Activity; Dialogism; Inquiry; Interpretation; Pragmatism; Research Methods; Semiotic Mediation; Work Safety
Why designing is not experimenting: design methods, epistemic praxis and strategies of knowledge acquisition in architecture
Using the example of architecture, this article defends the thesis that designing should not be regarded as a kind of experimenting. This is in contrast to a widespread methodological claim that design processes are equivalent to experimentation processes. The contrary thesis can be proven by focusing on actual practices, techniques and design strategies. Closely connected with the thesis is an even more important epistemological claim, which contends that designing serves not only to develop artefacts but is also a means of acquiring genuine knowledge. When the epistemic relevance of said practices, techniques and strategies is reassessed, designing emerges clearly as an independent epistemic praxis. To defend the thesis, the present article draws on and analyses empirical material from an ethnographic field study in order to back up the conceptual analysis.EC/FP7/600209/EU/International Post-Doc Initiative of the Technische UniversitÀt Berlin/IPOD
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DISSONANT FORMS: LANDSCAPE, NATURE-LOVE, and ART
As artists continue the long and storied lineage of Landscape, are there aesthetic responsibilities that come with representing the forces that afford you the capacity to do so? As we delineate spaces into places, endless interconnectivity into knowable âsystemsâ, and living matter into thing based taxonomies, who do these delineations serve and with what intentions do we proceed? My studio art practice explores what it means to give form to our Formerâthe Former being that from which we came, the here and now, our explicit ecological reality, the stuff of what we call nature. In this way, the Former consists of all the powers at play that unthinkingly formed the vital life-forces that afford us our perceptive and creative capacities, and in doing so, precede us chronologically. The primary questions my creative practice posits are therefore: what does it mean to give form to our Former through creative applications? In doing so, is it appropriate to assume that we are returning the favor
The Trouble With Big Data
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Trinity College Dublin, DARIAH-EU and the European Commission. This book explores the challenges society faces with big data, through the lens of culture rather than social, political or economic trends, as demonstrated in the words we use, the values that underpin our interactions, and the biases and assumptions that drive us. Focusing on areas such as data and language, data and sensemaking, data and power, data and invisibility, and big data aggregation, it demonstrates that humanities research, focussing on cultural rather than social, political or economic frames of reference for viewing technology, resists mass datafication for a reason, and that those very reasons can be instructive for the critical observation of big data research and innovation
CUnT-SPLICING THOUGHT-FORMS : Promiscuous Play with Quantum Physics and Spirituality
CUnT-SPLICING THOUGHT-FORMS â Promiscuous Play with Quantum Physics and Spirituality could perhaps best be described as an invocation of excited states. In more ways than one, this dissertation indulges in a weird threesome between quantum thinking, tantric practices, and feminist theory, with artistic practice at its core. It proposes the term âcunt-splicingââa reference to ropework and the so-called cunt splice (a.k.a. cut splice) knot. A tool to conceptualize the rubbing and knitting together of fields as (seemingly) distinct as quantum physics, feminist theory, and tantric technology, in order to examine how changing fibers, flows, and currents can generate excited states. This dissertation argues that cunt-splicing thought-forms differ from New Age concepts such as those found in quantum mysticism, which tends to reduce the fluid complexities of physics to fixed metaphors for spiritual truths. Feminist theorist Karen Baradâs notion of agential realism situates the theoretical framework in a queer tradition, exploring the innate âperversityâ of particles and the mind-bending queerness of quantum field theory. The works of Barad, Alfred North Whitehead, Niels Bohr, Wolfgang Pauli, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Lee Lozano, Ann Weinstone, Annie Besant, and Donna Haraway function as a many-headed apparatus of thinking-through-with. Equally important, this dissertation uses tantric technologies that stem from my lived engagement with kundalini and tantric practices. Approaching artworks as entangled fields to think-through-with, the text is pulled by the weightiness of situated knowledge and embodied experience. CUnT-SPLICING THOUGHT-FORMS â Promiscuous Play with Quantum Physics and Spirituality poses the following questions: How does the process of cunt-splicing galvanize excited statesâand the perversion inherent in both quantum and tantric systems? And how can these paradoxical states be activated in artmakingâand to what end? The first knot, background radiation, introduces the phenomena of excited states and the quantum/tantric domain of cunt-splicing. The second knot has GRAVITATIONAL RIPPLES (the Swedish memorial honoring the lives lost in the Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004) at its core. This sensitive fieldwork speaks to the bending of space-time itself, investigating the concept of waves in relation to excited states. The third knot is rooted in works revolving around the neutrino particle. Propelled by my stay at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), as well as conversations with scientists from CERN and the Niels Bohr Institute, the work contains references to the historical records of physicist Wolfgang Pauli. The fourth knot looks at some of the string-figures that are woven into cunt-splicing, functioning as an additional cord between the first knot and the sixth. The fifth knot spins around the exhibition STRIPPED (2020â21) at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen. STRIPPED can be viewed as an agitated and erogenous meditation on excited and exhausted states, colliding different concepts relating to energy, knowledge, and spirituality. The sixth and concluding knot proposes that an irreverent, double-tongued play has the potential to boost excited states in artistic practices. Much like un/holy instances of glossolalia that blurt out multitudes of bizarre revelations, excitation is an elevation of energy, a perverse and transformative process of radiation and decay. A cuntopology of spooky sensitizations and hard-core intimacies. In artmaking practices, an excited state is never done or undone. As such, cunt-splicing thought-forms can best be thought of as vessels of outrageous intimaciesâa joining of spheric and fleshy matters
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