week 12. pure design research

1. student presentation on "annotated portfolios"
2. Pure design research

next week reading:

M. Malpass: "Between wit and reason: defining associative, speculative, and critical design in practice"

week 11. concept-things & annotated portfolios

annotated portfolios
Intermediate-level knowledge
The logic of annotated portfolios

questions:
How to annotate portfolios? What to annotate?

criticism? dialogues? phenomenology? interpretation? discourse?....



homework:
1. discuss and propose  "guidelines" or "frameworks" for annotation
2. use the above guidelines to annotate at least two design artifacts.

deadline: 5/27

week 10. Intermediate-level knowledge

1. student presentation of critical dialog on design knowledge
2. introducing "Intermediate-level Knowledge" by Lowgren

week 9. design knowledge

discussing "linking artifacts with knowledge"


Ref:
1. Competing paradigms in qualitative research
2. The three paradigms of HCI
3. Designerly ways of knowing


Homework 2:
Critical Dialog on "Design Knowledge"
1. two students (recommended) or one student
2. questioning and answering about "design knowledge"
3. make a brief dialog text, and then present in the next week.