Robyn the other day was asking me what would motivate design researchers’ to participate in visualising their research? A question that directly addresses what would influence designers to adopt this dissemination practice? And since I have considered that the motivation needs to come from the research community itself and not dictated from above, here’s my [...]
As a teacher I have always been interested in how you facilitate peer learning in a class that is often passively ego-centric and unconsciously competitive. And although research communities don’t need to be reminded how sharing is central to the vibrancy of the community, individual researcher’s can sometimes forget that this is the objective behind [...]
I am curious about the significance and value we place on what the practitioner can learn from disseminating their research. Often in the reflective practitioner model it would appear that the research process prioritises the development of the practitioner and for this reason does not emphasise the value of communicating to others what has been [...]
One of my reasons for wanting to fold my academic practice into my professional practice was that I have always felt wary of the idea of ivory-tower research that was so many steps removed from the realities of everyday practice that the research would make little contribution to how anyone actually ever did anything. This [...]
Most of the design ‘work’ (I’m going to call them artefacts) will be undertaken in a consultative environment…since I cannot and do not want to escape the situated nature of learning. Yet the visual communication design process will be extended to and adopted for the dissemination of the research (which I usually refer to as [...]