Doing Research in Design

Zusatztext The book is an excellent resource for teachers and research supervisors Informationen zum Autor Christopher Crouch coordinates Higher Degrees by Research in the School of Communications and Arts at Edith Cowan University, Australia, and is Professor in the School of Art and Design, Southwest University, Chongqing, China. He is author of Modernism in Art, Design and Architecture and editor of Subjectivity, Creativity and the Institution, and Contemporary Chinese Visual Culture: Tradition, Modernity and Globalisation. Jane Pearce is Senior Lecturer in Education at Murdoch University, Australia, and author of Identity and Pedagogy: Critical Reflections on Teaching in a University. Vorwort Doing Research in Design presents new ways of thinking about the relationship between design and research by positioning design as a social as well as a material practice. Zusammenfassung A comprehensive exploration of design research methods, with particular focus on the social impacts of design. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Positioning the Designer 2. What Do Designers and Researchers Do? Thinking, Doing and Researching 3. Practice and Praxis, Reflection and Reflexivity 4. Thinking about Research: Methodology 5. Doing Research: From Methodologies to Methods 6. In the Picture: Ethnography and Observation 7. Understanding Through Story: Narratives8. Using Case Studies and Mixed Methods 9. Action Research 10. Writing About Research BibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Crouch, Christopher Crouch, Christopher Pearce Crouch, Crouch Christopher, Jane Pearce, Pearce Jane
• Publisher: Berg Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2012
• EAN: 9781847885807
• ISBN: 978-1-84788-580-7
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 180 mm x 255 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Theory of art, Product Design, DESIGN / Product, ART / History / General, ART / Criticism & Theory, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -