dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
Dissemination
for designers
Jan IJzermans
Research in Creative Practices HKU
Drive 2017
Disseminating
Design
Research
dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
Research should contribute to creative practices
dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
Research should contribute to creative practices
a. ongoing creative practices, leading to a particular product or service
b. future creative practices: generation of creative knowledge and increasing understanding
c. the personal development of designers
dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
Research should contribute to future practices
a. ongoing creative practices, leading to a particular product or service
b. future creative practices: generation of creative knowledge and increasing understanding
c. the personal development of designers
dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
Research should contribute to future practices
Many designers say research does not contribute to their (future) practices
dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
Research should contribute to future practices
Most designers are not researchers or PhD-candidates
dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
Research should contribute to future practices
Many designers are not involved in the present research discourse on future practices
dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
Research should contribute to future practices
Many designers are not involved in the present research discourse on future practices
dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
Another division of roles
Role designer
Generate, produce generative knowledge
Co-research
Role researcher
Activate, to help generate
Observing and explaining to help generate
A.
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Careful consideration of
the transformation that
knowledge has to undergo
to make it shareable
B.
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Designer’s knowledge
specificity / detailspecialist expertisemultiplicitycontinuity
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Shareable knowledge
compatibilitycoherenceusability
Designer’s knowledge
specificity / detailspecialist expertisemultiplicitycontinuity
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Disseminate effectively
Some knowledge can best be shared locally
Other knowledge can best be shared in a larger discourse
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LocallyFrom designers’ knowledge to design knowledge
scope: relevance for the local group and its immediate environment
InterlocallyMore requirements as to shareability
scope: relevance for a number of groups (of the same or different disciplines)
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Designing and the continual forming of knowledge
To form knowledge that inspires designing, that brings movement; not knowledge as an end
C.
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Setting of research with designersfor designers
Local, knowledge forming group of designers aiming at producing generative knowledge in co-research with researchers. The groups are in regular contact with other local, knowledge forming groups of designers with similar aims.
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Composers/Sound Designers
ProductDesigners
SpatialDesigners
‘Advanced posts’of creativeagencies
Fine Artists
Media Makers
Research inCreative Practices
dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
Composers/Sound Designers
ProductDesigners
SpatialDesigners
‘Advanced posts’of creativeagencies
Fine Artists
Media Makers
Research inCreative Practices
Local groupsInterlocal exchange
Shared know-ledge elements
Small publications
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Personal creative ‘research’ cycle
processing
practice
transforming unlocking
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Local creative research cycle
processing
practice
transforming unlocking
knowledge elements
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Interlocal creative research cycle
other group or education
sharing
processing
practice
transforming unlocking
knowledge elements
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other group or education
sharing
processing
practice
transforming unlocking
knowledge elements
Dissemination
dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
Composers/Sound Designers
ProductDesigners
SpatialDesigners
‘Advanced posts’of creativeagencies
Fine Artists
Media Makers
Research inCreative Practices
Improvement &development ofways of workingin this research
Local groupsInterlocal exchange
Shared know-ledge elements
Small publications
dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
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