Online Courses Handbook 2003

301539 (v.2) Design Research Methods 495

Area:	Department of Design
Contact Hours:	3.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Students become their own Case study to formulate a research proposal and implement research objectives. These aims are informed within the framework of Naturalistic Inquiry in recognition that design outcomes, like naturalistic inquiry is the result of a complex web of context specific inter-relationships. Within this framework, this unit includes - Action Research, Reflective Practice Systems Thinking; Ethnography and Emergent Design in recognition that naturalistic research, kike design process, allows the research/design to emerge from the various and competing constructions of reality. This range of research experience is brought together through the technique - The Audit Trail in recognition that information and knowledge requires defined structures in order to be gathered and evaluated.

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