Ways to Study lecture 05Ways to a Study Proposal

assignment 16

Publish on your website:

16. a scientific study proposal for your graduate study

Design related Study

Preface by Rector Fokkema

Within the range of a technical university the object of design

– in terms of (urban) architecture and technique – is the

design subject that is amongst all others most sensitive to

context.

The program of requirements is not only derived from an

economical and technical context, but also from contexts

hailing from political, cultural, ecological en spatial

considerations; on many levels of scale.

The concept of context

‘Science equals any collection of statements that features a reliable relationship to reality, a valid mutual relationship and a critical potential with regard to other statements in the same domain.’

CONTENTS

Introduction

A.Naming and describingB.Design research and typologyC.EvaluatingD.ModelingE.Programming and optimizingF.Technical Study G.Design Study H.Study by design

Epilogue

Introduction

Preface (Fokkema)

1. Introduction (Jong; Voordt)

2. Languages (Dijkhuis)

3. Criteria for scientific research, study and design (Jong, Voordt)

Domains according to Van der Voordt

Domains according to De Jong

Imaginable

artdesign study

empirical researchExte

ndin

g sc

ienc

e

possible

probable

There are more and less probable futures

probable futures

probability

probability

± σ = 68%, ± 2σ = 95%, ± 3σ = 99.7% chance

probability

- problem statement (problem isolation)

- clear aim

- reference

- starting points

- hypothesis

- variables

- data

- method

- content

- publish

to find truth or probability

Classical empirical research proposals

• Research produces probabilities by causes• Design produces possibilities by conditions

Design related study orempirical research

possiblefutures

probablefutures

design

prognosis

condition

cause

probability

probability

possible

Possible future

- Anything probable is per definition possible but not

everything possible is also probable.

- The probable future could be predicted.

- The improbable possibilities cannot be predicted. You

only can explore them by design.

probability

possible

Desirable futures

desirable

Ir.

Drs.

Mr.

probability

possible

Obvious and impossible futures

desirable impossible

obvious

possible

Problems and aims

desirable

probability

problems

aims

possible

Undesired, improbable possibilities

desirable

probability

Are they relevant as long as nobody wants them?

possible

Undesired, improbable possibilities

desirable

probability

yes!

unexpected inventions

possible

Undesired, improbable possibilities

desirable

probability

unexpected inventions

desirable

desired changing by new possibilities

Design related study

- can not isolate problems from a coherent field of problems

- brings aims together in a field of aims, a concept

- has many references, not only written text but especially images: forms,

types, models, concepts, programs

- has many starting points

- has designs as hypothesis stating: “This will work”

- has many context variables (“parameters”)

- while the object still varies in your head

- has many ways to study (in a book with 10 000 key words)

- content grows drawing, calculating and writing

- publishes with the medium as a message

How to limit, concentrate

- give way to fascinations (motivated concentrations)

- choose a scale (frame and grain) before an object

- publish your portfolio evaluating it as field of abilities

- decide to improve or to extend them in your proposal

- publish images that fascinate you as a field of means

- look at them as a professional: which concepts, types, models programs

could you harvest?

- make your assumptions about the future explicit

- imagine the impacts your study could have

- cash your dreams

desirable

probablefield of problems

field of aimsdesign

Field of problems and aims

- Problems: probable, but not desirable futures

- Aims: desirable, but not probable futures

Explicit future context

- protects your study against judgements with other suppositions about the

future context

- raises the debate about the robustness of your study in different future

contexts

- makes your study comparable to other studies in comparable contexts

- raises a ‘field of problems’ instead of an isolated ‘problem statement’ by

subtracting desirable futures from the probable ones

Explicit impacts within that context

- indicate actors and specialists to join the team or take into account

- imply a societal and personal relevance or fascination

- imply a field of aims

- imply actors willing to finance your study

- could produce a program of requirements

- before you have a precise study proposal !