The academization of design and its consequences for the visual, textual and artefactual production of practice-based research

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Title: The academization of design and its consequences for the visual, textual and artefactual production of practice-based research
Author(s): Melles, Gavin
Abstract: Postgraduate design research, and particularly its practice-based forms, is currently in a process of academic legitimisation. This legitimisation has consequences for faculty and student identities particularly where the propositions for scholarship in design may marginalise the distinctive mix of artifactual, textual and visual vocabularies that characterize practice-based design research. For design, I suggest how the social practice to academic literacies in emergent disciplines can help make transparent the strategies and forms in dissertation text construction, supervision and writing. This paper exemplifies the practical relevance of these strategies through reference to student case studies.
Publication type: Conference paper
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Design
Source: Keynote address at 'Focused: current design research methods and projects', the Swiss Design Network Symposium 2008, Mount Gurten, Berne, Switzerland, 30-31-May 2008
Publication year: 2008
Keyword(s): Academic design; Academic legitimisation; Academic literacy; Academisation; Design research; Industry; Postgraduate studies; Research identity
Publisher: Berne University of the Arts
Publisher URL: http://symposium-konkret-08.hslu.ch/
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