Don’t fence me in! Reconsidering the role of the librarian in a global age of art and design research

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Gendron
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Global Society ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Global Age ◽  
Society Today ◽  
Contemporary Artists

When we define society today as a ‘global society’ we are saying that we are, or at least we strive to be, an interconnected society, even more than if we were to say society is ‘worldwide’. In a global society, borders are crossed, and the phrase implies interaction, participation and inclusiveness. Artists and designers, as both a product of a global society and in response to the resulting all-inclusiveness, or ‘globality’, of their respective fields, are prompted to cross two kinds of border: physical and methodological. This paper focuses on the crossing of methodological boundaries and, in addition, recognizes the highly individualized nature of art and design research. This serves as a launch pad to explore the question of how librarians can shape their practice in order to respond better to the needs of contemporary artists and designers.

The connective role of improvisation in dealing with uncertainty during invention and design processes

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Satu MIETTINEN ◽  
Melanie SARANTOU
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Design Activities

This paper explores the role of improvisation in design thinking for product design processes and design research methods. Improvisation is often at the core of practice-based and participatory design, permitting flexibility. The role of improvisation in the performing arts has received considerable academic attention, however its role in design processes has been neglected, because improvisation is often viewed as the second-best solution to design problems. This paper presents a framework for improvisation by surveying existing scholarship. Additionally, field study data collected between 2011 and 2016, primarily in Namibia and Australia, will be used to illustrate how improvisation is applied by practitioners during their art and design activities. The connective function of improvisation allows designers to negotiate, take risks, unmake and remake formations. This function enables the fluidity of design, to move from one moment in a process to the next, allowing designers to negotiate ways of work during uncertainty.

scholarly journals Penelitian Atas Penelitian Seni dan Desain: Suatu Studi Kerangka Filosofis-Paradigmatis Bagi Penelitian Seni dan Desain Visual

Humaniora ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 995
Author(s):  
Karna Mustaqim ◽  
D. Rio Adiwijaya ◽  
Ferdinand Indrajaya
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Visual Objects ◽  
Artistic Inquiry ◽  
Creative Art ◽  
Philosophical Framework ◽  
Subjective Context ◽  
Artistic Research

This paper discusses philosophical framework of practice-based artistic research within the field of art and design in contrast with research in the natural and social science. It is stated that paradigm of artistic inquiry is ilustrated with the role of practicioner as researcher wherein subjectivity, involvement and reflexivity are acknowledged, while (k)nowledge is negotiated – inter-subjective, context bound, and is a result of personal construction. Visual objects have been exhausting large amount of our physical and emotional energy in seeing it which certainly gives them a central role in contemporary ages. It is suggested that research could become part of the needs for experience, to inspire, or to collectively develop a profession. Recently, research as knowledge production has been increasing and gaining its interest within the creative art field. However, there is a foundation which underpins a research, at least some implicit philosophical assumptions of it, which serve as the basis of understanding of reality (ontology), and how to know and justify it (epistemology); and by explicating it, it is believed that scrupulous consideration of it may contribute practical benefits in conducting art and design research. In that regard, this paper presents ontological outlook of Heidegger and also epistemology of art of Merleau-Ponty – which rises within phenomenological tradition – as a philosophical framework which can serve as paradigmatic underpinning of artistic research, in contrast with objectivist approach already identical with research in general.  

Assessing the impact of library instruction on studio-based research: developing a qualitative model

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Petraits
Keyword(s):  
Rhode Island ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Library Instruction ◽  
Qualitative Model ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Fostering Reflection ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Coordinator

Throughout the year, research and instruction librarians at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) instruct students in ways to use the library for studio-based research. At the end of each semester, librarians attend studio critiques for these classes to see the finished work and participate in the critique. These visits are opportunities to look for and reflect upon the presence of research and the impact of concepts taught during library research workshops on the finished presentations and artworks. The coordinator of graduate library instruction created a qualitative tool to assess the evidence of student learning within the studio critique. Its use is cultivating a culture of art and design research within the library and throughout campus by fostering reflection and discussion about the value of qualitative assessment.

scholarly journals Colour Studies: Clarification and Alpha-Numeric Adaptation of Notation Systems for Artists and Designers

1970 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-148
Author(s):  
ZS Ebigbagha
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Creative Construction

Colour studies have generated much confusion in art and design education, particularly among students of the discipline in Nigeria. This is due to the complexity of the subject matter itself, wide-range of available materials and a variety of concepts developed in its multi-disciplinarity that is not kept distinct. Therefore, this paper utilizes a qualitative approach that employs the critical, historical, and analytic examination to provide clarification on the constructive and expressive aspects of colour studies. The paper introduces the reader to the pivotal role of colour and its multi-disciplinary interest. Also, it adequately clarifies paradigms and theories in the physical, psychophysical and psychological domains with particular emphasis on areas of practical value to art and design. Moreover, it considers the numeric adaptation of the colour wheel to a set of numbers for harmonic relationship. And it ends with the need for artists and designers to comprehensively grasp the contextual behaviour of colour and develop colour originality through creative construction and effective use in order to successfully express themselves in colour.

scholarly journals Komunikasi Interpersonal dan Motivasi Terhadap Produktivitas Kerja Bidan Puskesmas Jatinegara

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Yesi Septina Wati
Keyword(s):  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Increase Productivity

<p><em>The midwife have sustainable contact with a patient so that the role of service obstetrics is the part most important things in the service puskesmas who is imagery and be his heart puskesmas to increase productivity work midwives of the means of increasing welfare puskesmas.The purpose of this research to know the influence of communication interpersonal and motivation, to labor productivity a midwife in puskesmas jatinegara 2016.The kind of research used is quantitative with the design research cross sectional.The sample were 45 people.The research results show 13.42 percent communication interpersonal and 9.12 percent motivation memepengaruhi labor productivity a midwife in puskesmas jatinegara, east jakarta.Influence between communication interpersonal and motivation show results have had a positive impact and significant with the t = 12.57.Expected puskesmas jatinegara make the program award these achievements.</em></p><p><em><br /></em></p><p><em>Bidan mempunyai kontak yang berkelanjutan dengan pasien sehingga peran pelayanan kebidanan merupakan bagian yang terpenting dalam proses pelayanan puskesmas yang akan membentuk citra dan menjadi jantungnya puskesmas untuk meningkatkan produktifitas kerja bidan berarti meningkatkan kesejahteraan puskesmas. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui pengaruh komunikasi interpersonal danmotivasi, terhadap produktivitas kerja bidan di Puskesmas Jatinegara Jakarta Timur tahun 2016. Jenis penelitian yang digunakan adalah kuantitatif dengan desain penelitian <em>crosssectional</em>. Sampel penelitian berjumlah 45 orang. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan13.42 persen komunikasi interpersonal dan 9.12 persentase motivasi memepengaruhi produktivitas kerja bidan di Puskesmas Jatinegara, Jakarta Timur. Pengaruh antara komunikasi interpersonal dan motivasi menunjukkan hasil penelitian diperoleh variabel Motivasi Kerja yang merupakan variabel paling berpengaruh positif, dengan T-statistik sebesar 9,12%. Diharapkan Puskesmas Jatinegara Jakarta Timur membuat program penghargaan atas prestasi kerja bidan disertai dengan membuat kebijakan insentif yang adil sehingga bidan lebih termotivasi dalam meningkatkan produktivitas kerjanya.</em></p>

scholarly journals Design as an agent of change: Practice-oriented initiatives on Design Teaching

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Najla Mouchrek ◽  
Lia Krucken
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Strategies For Change ◽  
Agent Of Change

The paper analyzes the role of Design as an agent of social transformation in face of complex challenges. Intentionally embracing reality’s complexity and centering on human values, the Design approach is suited to develop alternative perspectives and radically different strategies for change. The paper explores Design teaching focusing on social change and transition to sustainability, presenting three initiatives and reflecting about methods and impacts of the application of Design for transition. The analysis points to the need of a critical vision in Design research and teaching and the importance to systematize and teach methods and tools to support the interplay among diverse social actors.

scholarly journals Measuring Productivity and Efficiency of Seaports in India using DEA technique

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeronimo Guilherme Remigio MONTEIRO
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Bayesian Techniques ◽  
Functional Specification ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Performance Point ◽  
Port System

Aim: In this paper we are looking at the seaports (in India called ‘major ports’) from the context of its trade and India’s strategic importance in trade world after the initiation of economic reforms in 1991. It empirically estimates the levels of productivity and efficiency of seaports in India. This paper applies DEA technique to assess productivity and efficiency of seaports in India. Design/Research methods: DEA technique is extensively used in the literature of economics to provide measures of firms’ technical efficiency. These measures rank the firms by looking at their apparent performances over a period of time. DEA is a frontier model which is non-parametric since no functional specification or form is required to be mentioned. Conclusions/Findings: The DEA results as discussed and reported in the paper have shown how Indian ports are performing over the years. This investigation alone is not sufficient to develop a benchmark in the port system of India. Rather it will do well to have a closer look at the Indian ports from the physical and financial performance point of view. This study made use of data envelopment analysis (DEA) to generate what we call an efficiency benchmarks and assessment of the Indian ports sector. With this modest attempt to investigate the port sector of India several issues are in the open one can further analyze and come to desired conclusions. Originality/value of the paper: The main role of a port is to transfer goods between two transport modes. As far as Indian ports are concerned, there are few studies with regard to productivity and efficiency of the port sector. Since, there is an attempt in recent years to overhaul the infrastructure sectors of the Indian economy and especially seaports. There is a need to look at issues in port sector as well. Productivity and efficiency concerns should be the main aspect of the benchmarking of the performance of today’s Indian ports. Limitations of the research: Second stage DEA, distance function approach, Bayesian techniques, Carlo Monte techniques, can be alternatively used.  

scholarly journals Role of visual communication design as effective COVID-19 information and education media for community

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Ilma ◽  
P. A. W. Hidayat ◽  
D. Setiono ◽  
B. H. Prilosadoso
Keyword(s):  
Visual Communication ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Inductive Logic ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Visual Communication Design ◽  
Communication Design ◽  
Applied Art ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Alternative Solutions

Visual-based technology as a medium of contact and alternative solutions in pandemic conditions requires a design role, primarily visual communication design during the coronavirus outbreak. Visual communication design becomes an intermediary bridge for information, education, and recreation media to the community. Various aspects of the design become part of applied art, which has goals and benefits to overcome problems in society. The WHO on March 11, 2020, declared the COVID-19 as a pandemic that affects almost regions of the world, where nearly more than five million people are infected. The technology eliminates distance and is an essential part of the development of visual communication design. Research on technological developments in the field of visual communication design in the application of information and education media in the spread of this pandemic. The qualitative research methods states that this research method is used well in examining the details of the research subject. The natural condition of researchers without engineering, where the research process can describe the process from time to time; b). Inductive analysis, which contains exploration orientation, discovery, and inductive logic, so that theories and patterns are in reality; and c) Description of human behaviour in its natural context.

The laboratory life of a designer at the intersection with algal biotechnology

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marin Sawa
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Imperial College ◽  
Collaborative Practice ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Close Collaboration ◽  
Algal Biotechnology ◽  
Interdisciplinary Design ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
Laboratory Life

Scientific laboratories are increasingly becoming a collaborative place to design in an emergent biodesign practice, yet there is very little literature on the actual place and practice. This paper describes an empirical account of a laboratory-based, interdisciplinary design research practice, exploring the intersection with algal biotechnology. Aimed at generating multiple applications of microalgae, the author spent 3 years (2012-2015) working in close collaboration with algal scientists in their research laboratories at Imperial College London. It expounds on the laboratory space and facilities and discusses collaborative experimentation with the intersectional outcome: Algae Printing. It reports that the sum of resultant biotechnological artefacts are scientific, aesthetic, and ecosophical with potential for the domestication of algal biotechnology. It reflects on the interdisciplinary collaborative practice with literature reviews and addresses suggestions for future practices. The main finding is that the integration of a designer into the laboratory life can lead to co-invention and that a role of designer in early stages of scientific research can be demonstrated.

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