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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