Working through the grounded theory exercise I recognized the importance of acknowledging the breadth of work I have undertaken, while addressing that the project ambitions were quite distinctive. This is my attempt at classifying the projects by identifying three visualization categories for my practice. The categories also acknowledge that there could be different criteria for [...]
Following up from the GRC presentation I want to go back over the terrain of how I situate my work in relation to the research projects and my Parsons practice. Last month I wrote about how Cameron had corrected my description of my research by asserting that is was practice-led rather than project-based. At that [...]
Awhile back I mentioned Cameron getting me to do some kind of grounded theory exercise to evaluate what my projects were telling me about the contribution of my research. I have always made the claim that my research was done through some practice-led version of grounded theory…I previously stated this because I appreciated that grounded [...]
Writing up the ways in which my essays attempt to subvert normal readings of information design I made another connection to the Dunne and Raby text. D&R write about how critical design provides critique through designs that embody “alternative social, cultural, technical or economic values,” claiming that we should value design that asks “carefully crafted [...]
In Design Noir Dunne and Raby introduce the idea of critical design as other to affirmative design. Stating that affirmative design “conforms to cultural, social, technical and economic expectations. The argument being that critical design critiques the status quo by proposing designs that present alternative values. It is this emphasis on critical design in relation [...]