Scientific working methods 1

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The course “Scientific Work 1” teaches the basics and techniques of scientific work (methods for developing texts, quoting, etc.). Special attention is paid to the handling and evaluation of sources. There is an introduction to the core questions of the philosophy of science, whereby the students get to know different scientific theoretical positions and different methodological approaches (empiricism, hermeneutics and dialectics).

Further content:
_ Difference between art, science and design
_ Research about, with and through design
_ Semiotic and semantic principles, denotation and connotation in encoding and decoding of importance
_ Communication theory principles
_ On the rhetoric and culture of academic work

The course acts as a bridge between the courses “Design Basics 1”, “Design Studios” and “Design Project 1”, as the sources collected are processed and evaluated here.

There is an examination of doing as a form of thinking and writing as a form of doing in order to cross the boundaries between practice and theory in the sense of praxeological research in the field of design and to support a productive transfer between the individual courses.

• The students can describe what distinguishes scientific work.
• They know the criteria for judging sources in terms of their scientific quality.
• They are familiar with different research methods.
• They know the core questions of the philosophy of science and are able to name different epistemological positions.
• The students know:
  _ different methods of theory building.
  _ the scientific methods of approaching a question, of collecting, organizing and evaluating information.

Lectures with exercises, individual coaching

Design research diary, Multiple Choice Test, individual research to design project 1

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• Martin, Bella; Hanington, Bruce (2013): Design Methoden. 100 Recherchemethoden und Analysetechniken für erfolgreiche Gestaltung. München: Stiebner Verlag.
• Strubing, Jörg (2008): Grounded Theory. Zur Sozialtheoretischen und Epistemologischen Fundierung des Verfahrens der Empirisch Begründeten Theoriebildung (Qualitative Sozialforschung) (German Edition). Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaft.
• Wetterich, Cita; Plänitz, Erik (2021): Systematische Literaturanalysen in den Sozialwissenschaften. Eine praxisorientierte Einführung. Opladen: Verlag Barbara Budrich.
• Mittelstraß, Jürgen (1988): Die Häuser des Wissens. Wissenschaftstheoretische Studien. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
• Haarmann, Anke (2019): Artistic Research: eine epistemologische Ästhetik. Bielefeld: Transcript.
• Zima, Peter V. (2004): Was ist Theorie? Theoriebegriff und dialogische Theorie in den Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften. UTB.
• May, Yomb (2010): Kompaktwissen Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten. Eine Anleitung zu Techniken und Schriftform. Stuttgart: Reclam Verlag.
• Noble, Ian; Bestley, Russell (2005): Visuelle Forschung. Eine Einführung in die wissenschaftliche Methodologie des Grafik-Design. Lausanne: AVA Publishing SA.
• Popper, Karl R. (2014): Alles Leben ist Problemlösen. Über Erkenntnis, Geschichte und Politik. München: Piper Verlag.
• Michel, Ralf (Hrsg.) (2007): Design Research Now. Essays and Selected Projects. Basel: Birkhäuser.
• Jens, Badura u.a. (Hrsg.) (2015): Künstlerische Forschung. Ein Handbuch. Zürich: Diaphanes.
• Kalkhoff, Herbert; Hischauer, Stefan; Lindemann, Gesa (Hrsg.) (2008): Theoretische Empirie. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
• Diekmann, Andreas (2007): Empirische Designforschung. Grundlagen, Methoden, Anwendungen. Rheinbeck bei Hamburg: Rowohlt Enzyklopädie.

Face-to-face instruction with mandatory attendance