To all
The 2008 DRS conference was entitled Undisciplined!, and can be accessed @
http://shura.shu.ac.uk/drs2008/
I wrote a paper for this conference, but was unable to go, so wrote an
article for Design Issues instead:
https://www.academia.edu/296580/A_Natural_Death_Is_Announced
Johann
On 7 February 2017 at 03:02, Lois Frankel <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> In the thread, “Are politicians Designers”, Klaus ends his recent post by
> saying,
>
> “…what we need to do is to refine our practices in order to be able to
> cooperate or successfully compete with other profession, not to mindlessly
> surrender to them”
>
> What follows is a bit of a detour, but since it is my first substantial
> post in decades please let me know if this is revisiting old discussions.
>
> One of the most interesting aspects of our Masters of Design program is
> that each student has to have 2 Co-Supervisors- one from Industrial Design
> and the other , a faculty member from another faculty or department or
> school within the university, but outside of industrial design. Over time,
> my ID colleagues and I have worked with colleagues in fields clearly
> related to ID and in surprisingly different fields. I suspect that I am
> learning much more about interdisciplinary co-operation than my students:
> from the trade-offs we make about to how to structure and support
> arguments, to what constitutes valid research methods, and to when to stop
> collecting data and start making sense of it. I am also learning that
> methods I used to believe we designers “owned” are shared across
> disciplines as well, each with a different twist.
>
> 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?
>
>
> Lois
>
>
> Lois Frankel PhD
> Associate Professor
> School of Industrial Design
> Carleton University
> Ottawa Canada
>
> www.id.carleton.ca
>
>
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