Methods of Design Research
| Degree programme | InterMedia |
| Subject area | Design |
| Type of degree | Bachelor Full-time Summer Semester 2024 |
| Course unit title | Methods of Design Research |
| Course unit code | 025218022011 |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Type of course unit (compulsory, optional) | Compulsory |
| Teaching hours per week | 2 |
| Year of study | 2024 |
| Level of the course / module according to the curriculum | |
| Number of ECTS credits allocated | 3 |
| Name of lecturer(s) | Verena FÄßLER |
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- Foundations of design research
- Presentation and application of appropriate methods
- Dealing with "objectivity" and "subjectivity"
- Formulation and visualization of results
- Visual and sensory methods of research
The students are able to see, understand and apply an expanded concept of design.
The students know
- the link between applied design and design sciences and therefore the options in terms of research for, about and through design.
- the problems of the generalisation of rules of behaviour in connection with design processes that are created for certain situations, contexts and times and cannot be repeated in terms of the effect of their reception.
- different discourses on ideas about design, working methods in the field of professional design, approaches to assess and evaluate design processes.
Lectures, discusssions Tutorial using the example of a design research field, practical exercise
Presentation
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- Baur, Rudi Intégral (2009): Antizipieren, Hinterfragen, Einschreiben, Irritieren, Orientieren, Übersetzen, Unterscheiden. Baden: Lars Müller Verlag.
- Brandes, Uta; Erlhoff, Michael; Schemmann, Nadine (2009): Designtheorie und Designforschung. Paderborn: UTB W. Fink.
- Ibach, Jörg (2014): Ästhetische Impulse der Netzkommunikation. Eine designwissenschaftliche Betrachtung multimedialer Diskurse. Bielefeld: Transcript.
- Kempter, Guido; Mayer, Horst O.; Weidmann, Karl-Heinz (2011): design 2 product - Beiträge zur empirischen Designforschung. Hohenems: Bucher.
- Michel, Ralf (Hg.) (2007): Design Research Now. Essays and Selected Projects. Basel: Birkhäuser.
- Reuter, Wolf D.; Jonas, Wolfgang; Rittel, Horst W.J. (2013): Thinking Design. Transdisziplinäre Konzepte für Planer und Entwerfer. Basel: Birkhäuser.
- Romero-Tejedor, Felicidas; Jonas, Wolfgang (2010): Positionen zur Designwissenschaft. Kassel: University Press.
- Schneider, Beat (2005): Design - eine Einführung. Entwurf im sozialen, kulturellen und wirtschaftlichen Kontext. Basel: Birkhäuser.
Face-to-face instruction with mandatory attendance