Dear Lois and all,
So personally interesting to see this thread.
In addition to Filippo David, and Gabriele's contributions, I thought that I might add that I found my research interests because of a joint master’s program that Design and English used to offer at Carnegie Mellon Univ. In my case, rhetoric influenced design.
After I was accepted, I was honestly annoyed when I found out that in addition to courses I hoped to take in the School of Design, I was expected to enroll in classes offered by English. (I obviously had not done enough homework on the program, so it was a nice bit of serendipity.) Courses in rhetoric focused on invention, style, and textual approaches that were related to genre but not as narrow as genre. The prompt I remember most was, “you find the connections.”
The first thing I noticed was that it changed my approach to drawing, that I began seeing form as driven by a sense of place if that makes any sense. But as I became more curious, I began to wonder about how these two obviously different but interacting elements, image and text, actually work together, and how we might make them work together more effectively. I’m thinking about this through the lens of arguments outside of advertising. That led to my hybrid self—PhD is in rhetoric, but the visual/verbal interests are where my heart lies.
Last of all, looking through a rhetoric/design lens ended up including readings from cognitive science as my advisor was very curious about it at the time, and I caught that curiosity.
Hope this is useful,
Susan
Susan M. Hagan Ph.D. MDes | Carnegie Mellon University Qatar
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> This leads to my next question: what are the fields we designers/design researchers work with? Not just the fields obviously related to design, like anthropology, psychology, and business, but other fields that you may be working with. Is there a catalogue of the kinds of interdisciplinary research that involves designers? Are there some fields that designers work more frequently with or even more productively with than others?
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> Lois
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> Lois Frankel PhD
> Associate Professor
> School of Industrial Design
> Carleton University
> Ottawa Canada
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