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Subject: Re: Abstract of Part Practice-Based Design PhD
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Dear Owain,

Your dissertation is much closer to the Ph.D. model than you declare. It
follows a commonly accepted structure in the sciences, and the technical
sciences in particular. You are using your practice as a case (text) for
analysis, not as a text by and in itself. As far as your abstract presents
your method and the structure of your dissertation, I don't believe anyone
will dispute the (technical) science character of your dissertation. Your
dissertation is different from the extreme examples we were discussing.

 I think some of us were objecting another model - sculpture a new
toothbrush, make a new car styling, write a dozen of pages to explain what
exactly the designer wants to communicate to the recepients, and submit it
for a dissertation. 

I want also to mention that the wording "practice-based dissertation" is
interpreted in many different ways by the participants in this discussion.
This provides opportunities to the "extreme" practitioners to get support
from researchers like you. 

I will appreciate a site URL where I can see more of your text or, If you
have submitted it to University Microfilms in Michigan (Dissertation
Abstracts International), the reference number and the bibliographic data
so that I can request a copy from them.

In my dissertation, I also studied practices (best practices in facility
programming or benchmarking facility programming practices) but I do not
perceive it as a practice-based thesis.  The pracitices were the object of
study, but the method was scientific (however, not positivist). 

Regards, 

Lubomir Popov

At 09:39 AM 6/22/2000 +0100, Design PhD Dot Com wrote:
>Forum,
>
>To those of you interested, and in the spirit of dissemination, I am posting
>the abstract of my PhD which I completed at the end of last year.  If
>anybody would like to know more please do not hesitate to email me at
>[log in to unmask] (although I will be away on vacation for the next two
>weeks).  Several postings from the 'drs' and 'idforum' mailinglists were
>included in the literature reviews and proved a good source of informed,
>contemporary perspectives.  Over the next six months I intend to disseminate
>the thesis (and surrounding work which couldn't quite be squeezed in) into a
>series of journal papers and web-based articles.  For the latter, I will be
>constructing a fledgling web site, www.designphd.com, which I will nurture
>into a source of advice and information for design research students.  More
>information will follow.
>
>Many thanks,
>Owain
>
>Dr Owain Pedgley
>R&D Industrial Designer, Sports SET Network
>The University of Sheffield
>www.sportsetnet.org.uk
>+44 (0)114 2227770
>
>
>-----
>LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY
>FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
>DEPARTMENT OF DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY
>
>Ph.D. ABSTRACT
>
>(c) Copyright Loughborough University 13 September 1999
>
>
>
>INDUSTRIAL DESIGNERS' ATTENTION TO MATERIALS AND MANUFACTURING PROCESSES:
>ANALYSES AT MACROSCOPIC AND MICROSCOPIC LEVELS
>
>Owain Francis Pedgley
>
>
>Materials and manufacturing processes are fundamental to new product
>development (NPD), yet their role and importance within industrial design
>practice remain relatively unreported.  This thesis presents an account of a
>research programme to determine the significance of materials and
>manufacturing processes as elements in industrial designers' work.  The
>programme was in part practice-based, involving the researcher in the design
>and prototyping of an innovative polymer acoustic guitar.  In addition,
>interviews were given with undergraduates and professional designers based
>in the U.K.
>
>The thesis has four Sections.  In Section One, a framework for analysing
>industrial designers' attention to materials and manufacturing processes is
>developed.  Definitions of industrial design are offered and the nature of
>design decision-making from both macroscopic and microscopic perspectives is
>examined.  Uses of information, knowledge, values and cognitive modelling
>are discussed, and comparisons are drawn between engineers' and
>artist-designers' involvement with materials and manufacture.  Section Two
>contains a critical review of methods of capturing and analysing design
>activity.  The development of a novel 'diary of designing' is reported and
>the adopted content analysis procedure is outlined.  The results of data
>analyses are contained as discrete studies in Section Three.  This third
>Section also includes both an evaluation of the diary as a data collection
>instrument and a commentary on the mechanics of incorporating one's own
>designing into a Ph.D. programme.
>
>In Section Four, a synopsis is given of the constraints and opportunities
>that affect industrial designers' choices of materials and manufacturing
>processes.  Conclusions are drawn on how industrial designers know about
>materials and manufacturing, the nature of creativity in this area, how
>information is used to supplement experience and, tentatively, how cognitive
>modelling is used to help determine a suitable manufacturing route for a
>product idea.  The implications of the conclusions for tertiary education
>and providers of information are discussed.
>
>Keywords
>designing; industrial; product; NPD; materials; manufacturing; knowledge;
>information; modelling; diary
>
>
>
>
>
>
>




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