• Description: This PhD course aim to provide a profound understanding amongst the participants with respect to how their project is located within various positions and schools of thought. The course focuses in particular on the two levels of epistemology and method providing insight into philosophy of science as well as specific issues of methodology. The underpinning idea is to get participants to understand how the way they produce new knowledge within design research is related to the research design and the methods applied. The course will both provide a general level of knowledge about theories of science and relevant methods, as well as it will put focus on experimental, pragmatic and empirical research with end user experience as the pivotal theme.

  • Organizer: Professor Ole B. Jensen, AD:MT, AAU

  • Lecturers: Professor Ole B. Jensen, AD:MT, AAU

  • ECTS: 3 ECTS + 2 if an assignment of 10-20 normal pages is submitted

  • Time: 18-20 April, 2016

  • Place: Rendsburggade 14.4 room 3.529

  • Zip code: 9000

  • City: Aalborg

  • Number of seats: 15

  • Deadline: 28 March, 2016

    Readings (A = primary readings to be read in advance of the course, B = secondary readings for inspiration)

    A Readings

    Delanty, G. & P. Strydon (eds.) (2003) Philosophies of Social Science. The Classic and contemporary readings, Maidenhead: Open University Press, pp. 1-12

    Jensen, O. B. (2010) Design research and knowledge – introduction to Design Research Epistemologies, in Jensen, O. B. (Ed.) (2010) Design Research Epistemologies I – Research in Architectural Design, Aalborg: Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology, pp. 7-20

    Jensen, O. B. & D. B. Lanng (2016) Mobilities Design, Routledge: London (Chapter 2)

    Lawson, B. (2004) What designers know, London: Architectural Press, pp. 1-20

    Naisbitt, K. (1996) Introduction, in Nesbitt, K. (ed.) (1996) Theorizing A New Agenda for Architecture Theory. An anthology of Architectural Theory 1965-1995, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, pp. 16-70

    Yaneva, A. (2005) Scaling Up and Down: Extraction Trials in Architectural Design, Social Studies of Science, 35/6, December 2005, 867-894

    Yaneva, A. (2009) Making the social hold: Towards an Actor-Network Theory of Design, Design and Culture,

    Vol. 1, Issue 3, pp. 273-388

    B Readings

    Bærenholdt, J. O., M. Büscher, J. D. Scheuer & J. Simonsen (2010) Perspectives on Design Research, in Simonsen, J., J. O. Bærenholdt, M. Büscher, J. D. Scheuer (Eds.) (2010) Design Research. Synergies from interdisciplinary perspectives, London: Routledge, pp. 1-15

    Degen, M., G. Rose & B. Basdas (2010) Bodies and everyday practices in designed urban environments Science Studies, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 60-76

    Delanty, G. & P. Strydon (eds.) (2003) Philosophies of Social Science. The Classic and contemporary readings, Maidenhead: Open University Press, pp. 1-12 (A), 13-25, 85-98, 207-218, 321-330, and 365-383

    Fallan, K. (2010) Design History. Understanding Theory and Method, Oxford: Berg, pp. 55-104 and 105-144

    Gänshirt, C. (2007) Tools for Ideas. An Introduction to Architectural Design, Basel: Birkhäuser, pp. 9-20

    Jensen, O. B. (2014) Designing Mobilities, Aalborg: Aalborg University Press, pp. 38-53

    Latour, B. & A. Yaneva (2008) "Give me a gun and I will make all buildings move": An ANT's vies of Architecture, in Geiser, R. (Ed.) (2008) Explorations in Architecture: Teaching, Design, Research, Basel: Birkhäuser, pp. 80-89

     

    Murphy, K. M & G. E. Marcus (2013) Epilogue: Ethnography and Design, Ethnography in Design …

    Ethnography by Design, in W. Gunn, T. Otto & R. C. Smith (Eds.) (2013) Design Anthropology. Theory &

    Practice, London: Bloomsbury, pp. 251-268

     

    Otto, T. & R. C. Smith (2013) Design Anthropology: A Distinct Style of Knowing, in W. Gunn, T. Otto & R.

    C. Smith (Eds.) (2013) Design Anthropology. Theory & Practice, London: Bloomsbury, pp. 1-29