In Week 4, everyone presented their individual focuses and goals for the term (to view classmate blogs, please go to the links page). Yu-seung Kim and I both conveyed interest in design research methods and case study samples, so after class we decided that collaborating our ideas would be the best way to strengthen our goals for this term.
We were advised to look into conferences or journals that would help us focus our writing, research and visualizations. As luck would have it, Luke Johnson sent us a link to a conference on an AIGA conference called Social Studies: Educating Designers in a Connected World taking place in October 2008. For now, Yu-seung and I are using this conference as a guidance tool and we’re thinking about submitting a proposal for the MFA panel. Thoughts of also submitting a proposal to run a workshop relating to our work are in the air as well. It made me really think, what other ways can we educate others about design research? Other than a paper or website, how can we share our ideas and experiences of design research and how can we stimulate others to want to integrate design research methods into their existing practices?
