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Ways to Study lecture 05Ways to a Study Proposal
assignment 16
Publish on your website:
16. a scientific study proposal for your graduate study
Design related Study
Preface by Rector Fokkema
Within the range of a technical university the object of design
– in terms of (urban) architecture and technique – is the
design subject that is amongst all others most sensitive to
context.
The program of requirements is not only derived from an
economical and technical context, but also from contexts
hailing from political, cultural, ecological en spatial
considerations; on many levels of scale.
The concept of context
‘Science equals any collection of statements that features a reliable relationship to reality, a valid mutual relationship and a critical potential with regard to other statements in the same domain.’
CONTENTS
Introduction
A.Naming and describingB.Design research and typologyC.EvaluatingD.ModelingE.Programming and optimizingF.Technical Study G.Design Study H.Study by design
Epilogue
Introduction
Preface (Fokkema)
1. Introduction (Jong; Voordt)
2. Languages (Dijkhuis)
3. Criteria for scientific research, study and design (Jong, Voordt)
Domains according to Van der Voordt
Domains according to De Jong
Imaginable
artdesign study
empirical researchExte
ndin
g sc
ienc
e
possible
probable
There are more and less probable futures
probable futures
probability
probability
± σ = 68%, ± 2σ = 95%, ± 3σ = 99.7% chance
probability
- problem statement (problem isolation)
- clear aim
- reference
- starting points
- hypothesis
- variables
- data
- method
- content
- publish
to find truth or probability
Classical empirical research proposals
• Research produces probabilities by causes• Design produces possibilities by conditions
Design related study orempirical research
possiblefutures
probablefutures
design
prognosis
condition
cause
probability
probability
possible
Possible future
- Anything probable is per definition possible but not
everything possible is also probable.
- The probable future could be predicted.
- The improbable possibilities cannot be predicted. You
only can explore them by design.
probability
possible
Desirable futures
desirable
Ir.
Drs.
Mr.
probability
possible
Obvious and impossible futures
desirable impossible
obvious
possible
Problems and aims
desirable
probability
problems
aims
possible
Undesired, improbable possibilities
desirable
probability
Are they relevant as long as nobody wants them?
possible
Undesired, improbable possibilities
desirable
probability
yes!
unexpected inventions
possible
Undesired, improbable possibilities
desirable
probability
unexpected inventions
desirable
desired changing by new possibilities
Design related study
- can not isolate problems from a coherent field of problems
- brings aims together in a field of aims, a concept
- has many references, not only written text but especially images: forms,
types, models, concepts, programs
- has many starting points
- has designs as hypothesis stating: “This will work”
- has many context variables (“parameters”)
- while the object still varies in your head
- has many ways to study (in a book with 10 000 key words)
- content grows drawing, calculating and writing
- publishes with the medium as a message
How to limit, concentrate
- give way to fascinations (motivated concentrations)
- choose a scale (frame and grain) before an object
- publish your portfolio evaluating it as field of abilities
- decide to improve or to extend them in your proposal
- publish images that fascinate you as a field of means
- look at them as a professional: which concepts, types, models programs
could you harvest?
- make your assumptions about the future explicit
- imagine the impacts your study could have
- cash your dreams
desirable
probablefield of problems
field of aimsdesign
Field of problems and aims
- Problems: probable, but not desirable futures
- Aims: desirable, but not probable futures
Explicit future context
- protects your study against judgements with other suppositions about the
future context
- raises the debate about the robustness of your study in different future
contexts
- makes your study comparable to other studies in comparable contexts
- raises a ‘field of problems’ instead of an isolated ‘problem statement’ by
subtracting desirable futures from the probable ones
Explicit impacts within that context
- indicate actors and specialists to join the team or take into account
- imply a societal and personal relevance or fascination
- imply a field of aims
- imply actors willing to finance your study
- could produce a program of requirements
- before you have a precise study proposal !
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