DRIVE 2017 | 25 October - CURATING & DISSEMINATING DESIGN RESEARCH - Jan Ijzermans

dissemination for designers

Research in Creative Practices

Dissemination

for designers

Jan IJzermans

Research in Creative Practices HKU

Drive 2017

Disseminating

Design

Research



Research should contribute to creative practices



Research should contribute to creative practices

a. ongoing creative practices, leading to a particular product or service

b. future creative practices: generation of creative knowledge and increasing understanding

c. the personal development of designers



Research should contribute to future practices

a. ongoing creative practices, leading to a particular product or service

b. future creative practices: generation of creative knowledge and increasing understanding

c. the personal development of designers




Many designers say research does not contribute to their (future) practices




Most designers are not researchers or PhD-candidates




Many designers are not involved in the present research discourse on future practices




Many designers are not involved in the present research discourse on future practices



Another division of roles

Role designer

Generate, produce generative knowledge

Co-research

Role researcher

Activate, to help generate

Observing and explaining to help generate

A.



Careful consideration of

the transformation that

knowledge has to undergo

to make it shareable

B.



Designer’s knowledge

specificity / detailspecialist expertisemultiplicitycontinuity



Shareable knowledge

compatibilitycoherenceusability

Designer’s knowledge

specificity / detailspecialist expertisemultiplicitycontinuity



Disseminate effectively

Some knowledge can best be shared locally

Other knowledge can best be shared in a larger discourse



LocallyFrom designers’ knowledge to design knowledge

scope: relevance for the local group and its immediate environment

InterlocallyMore requirements as to shareability

scope: relevance for a number of groups (of the same or different disciplines)



Designing and the continual forming of knowledge

To form knowledge that inspires designing, that brings movement; not knowledge as an end

C.



Setting of research with designersfor designers

Local, knowledge forming group of designers aiming at producing generative knowledge in co-research with researchers. The groups are in regular contact with other local, knowledge forming groups of designers with similar aims.



Composers/Sound Designers

ProductDesigners

SpatialDesigners

‘Advanced posts’of creativeagencies

Fine Artists

Media Makers

Research inCreative Practices




ProductDesigners

SpatialDesigners


Fine Artists

Media Makers


Local groupsInterlocal exchange

Shared know-ledge elements

Small publications



Personal creative ‘research’ cycle

processing

practice

transforming unlocking



Local creative research cycle

processing

practice


knowledge elements



Interlocal creative research cycle

other group or education

sharing

processing

practice


knowledge elements



other group or education

sharing

processing

practice


knowledge elements

Dissemination




ProductDesigners

SpatialDesigners


Fine Artists

Media Makers


Improvement &development ofways of workingin this research

Local groupsInterlocal exchange

Shared know-ledge elements

Small publications



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