Following up the abstract I referred to in the Describing vs Speculating post I have completed the paper for the Design Perspectives Conference in Mexico. Titled “Promoting Potential: the dissemination and reception of practitioner-led design research”, you can download the file here - or read an abridged abstract:
Academic literature on dissemination might usually privilege the [...]
Tim Marshall and I began collaborating on a design paper where we wanted to explore at what stage within the process we would introduce my contribution - visualisations. We considered several possibilities - an iterative process of sketches influenced by text, then the text influenced by the sketch, visualisations that illustrated the text and text [...]
Moving here somehow meant that I didn’t get back to finishing the AGDA journal article until now. What proved most interesting about the process was the consideration to include the studio artefacts. I wanted a way of presenting them - for the largely professional audience - because I thought they would value the research more [...]