Abstract
When the engineers embrace market stalls and life scientists design poster case studies, you wonder why the design research community continues to favour the conferred authority of the written word. As medical research is communicated through sophisticated visualisations you ask if there is a complementary language for disseminating design research that could live up to the rich complexity of the creative process. Could alternative dissemination models accommodate and respect the realm of design as one of possibilities (Dilnot 1998)? Can the voice adopted for disseminating the research speak to the visual literacy of design practitioners? These questions introduce the potential role visual communication could play in conveying the individual practitioner-researcher’s design know-how as substantive knowledge for the relevant community of practice. This paper does not purport to already know how visual accounts of design research would contribute to how we acquire and share knowledge. Instead the paper broadly considers the implications of the strategies we use for creating and transmitting design research being sympathetic to the nature of designing and design knowing.
Citation
Grocott, L. (2004) Disseminating Design Research: The Contribution of Visual Communication in Capturing and Translating Design Knowing., in Redmond, J., Durling, D. and de Bono, A (eds.), Futureground - DRS International Conference 2004, 17-21 November, Melbourne, Australia. https://dl.designresearchsociety.org/drs-conference-papers/drs2004/researchpapers/169
Disseminating Design Research: The Contribution of Visual Communication in Capturing and Translating Design Knowing.
When the engineers embrace market stalls and life scientists design poster case studies, you wonder why the design research community continues to favour the conferred authority of the written word. As medical research is communicated through sophisticated visualisations you ask if there is a complementary language for disseminating design research that could live up to the rich complexity of the creative process. Could alternative dissemination models accommodate and respect the realm of design as one of possibilities (Dilnot 1998)? Can the voice adopted for disseminating the research speak to the visual literacy of design practitioners? These questions introduce the potential role visual communication could play in conveying the individual practitioner-researcher’s design know-how as substantive knowledge for the relevant community of practice. This paper does not purport to already know how visual accounts of design research would contribute to how we acquire and share knowledge. Instead the paper broadly considers the implications of the strategies we use for creating and transmitting design research being sympathetic to the nature of designing and design knowing.