Why the exclamation mark behind engineering?
I knew it was going to tickle some bellies : )
"What Does the Field Think about
Research?" rather scary.
This is a question regarding how research should be tackled in
design, be it interactive, product, graphic or whatnot. I understand
RCA has a very interesting way to tackle research in design, and
that's by validating the actual design practice as a research
process, but from where I am from, this approach is getting trouble
to go through classic research institutions, because it's not purely
scientific, nor social-science oriented either. It's true there's a
need to do research, the question here is not how to do it (maybe it
is too), but how to make it understandable to those looking from
across the fence.
Some countries might be beyond this, but as I said, in my country
we're not, and I'm trying to figure out the path as I walk.
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...enroll in master’s programs, where the dominant educational model –
borrowed from the studio arts – addresses the refinement of practice-
oriented
skills and portfolios.
I did enroll in a master program with a hybrid model in the US, but
in the end, final research conclusions weren't as important as the
wow-factor, and that leaves me with a bad mouth taste : (
Design education as I know it from experience is definitely practice-
oriented, is RCA's way the right way? Is practice what makes us
designers?
It's easy to see questions are arising from multiple fronts here, and
to start, Jesse is putting out some good questions too.
Best,
Leonardo.
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