Notes: Research Methods in Art, Architecture and design

What is research?

• Collecting

• Informing

• Investigating

• Asking questions to the self and the larger field

• Interrogating existing thoughts and conclusions

Research in Art

• Relatively new

• Terminology is drawn from scientific discipline

• Terminology is still being developed (by us as we continue the MA)

Innovation and inspiration

- Different scales and different audiences

- Architecture – impact, legacy and the aftermath

- Art poses a question, architecture is the answer?

- Mode of doing and the methodology creates the question

- Similarities between art, architecture and design is that they all ask questions and they all provoke

- Open ended dialogue.

- Distinct differences

• Goals of the research, and what it impacts on

• Research methods

• Intentions invested in resulting artifacts 9creative works, products and techniques)

• Knowledge claims made for the research in the writing/reporting

Academia asks – have you produced new knowledge?

Reearch is – new knowledge, effectively shared.

MA is new knowledge to self.

Impetus – motivation and trigger

Approach – method

Outcome

Research is not a defined practice in the creative field.

Questions not nessecarily questions of the project

Practice and production refines the question

Methodology – way of doing

Identifying the shortcomings

Methodology – self aware way of approaching the ‘method’

Ology – is the study of something

Methodology – method exists within a structure or framework. It is the study of the method/

Why, reason and the shortcomings

Questioning the method ***

Responsibilitt as an academic is accepting that research and knowledge is not the truth or the end.

Method – simone – ability to be a reflective practitioner

Methodology can be between you and your practice.

How to identify method

How to describe it to the outside world

Doing – reporting

What is transferred and created between these processes.

You can do things in text that you can’t do in material

Supplements research in making and design – explore something additional and new

Module – how and why

Practice as research approaches to creative arts enquiry

What produced this research? The visual

The materials used by the artist are not innocent, they are encoded with historical knowledge and conventions

Practice and research: approaches to creative enquiry

No method is innocent

• Associations

• Prior applications

• Influence – indebtedness

• Critique (does the method articulate a certain critique?’

• Shortcomings

• Privelaging - revealing some things and not others

• Availability – who is this methodology available to? Social / cultural background

• Transparency or reliability

Co – design

Tools

Hand drawing – accessible form of communication

Cad – power balance, typed, technocology

Awareness of process

Transforming practice through questioning and looking to other traditions

What does a research project look like?

No real answer

Meaning of research is evolving and open

Case study

Elizabeth price – turner priz

Studio – lightweight lamp

Rca – research repository

Research and conducting research is integra to practice

Processes and practices behind architecture understood as ‘research’

Sustainability – size and weight

Questioning ]

Q- who is the audience

Q – who does it impact

Whos problem is it

Who cares

Communities are varies and niche. Research does not set out to change the world for everyone

Who is the community it impacts