MUO-E3042 - Emerging Designs, Lecture, 1.11.2021-10.12.2021
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Reflective essay
Note: Deadline extended to 21.12.2021, at 23:59 Finnish time.
Write a reflective essay about your process and outcome of the design assignment. Emphasize how your designerly insights developed, how design solutions and task/problem framing co-evolved. Also include a chapter about teamwork and analyze your own contribution, and that of the others -emphasizing the positive contributions of each, as well as you all as a group with more critical view. Ensure you have a clear structure in your document.
You can consider e.g. the following aspects: Concept creation; Task-solution co-evolution, and moments of problem framing and re-framing; Knowledge building; The moments of decisions about the design; Team dynamics; Own contribution; Your growth as a designer.
You can also focus to subset of the above if you prefer.
If
needed, you can have a chapter also about the possible clash the course
content and your personal take to design as an activity. What is design
to you? As mentioned in the book below (Lawson & Dorst), design can
be presented as a knowledge building process or purely as problem
solving. You may have other views -reading the book (or just the
chapter) may frame and ground your view further or even change it.
Ensure
you have at least four or five relevant references from this course or
further; stick to academic referencing practices with a list of the
references at the end. Length of the essay should be 4-5 pages, with
font size 11, one column, 1,5 line-height. Text is enough in this essay, no need to visualize.
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An excellent article I hope everyone reads, for making some thoughts explicit about your designerly growth process, potentially helping the essay:
- Ball, L. J., & Christensen, B. T. (2019). Advancing an understanding of design cognition and design metacognition: Progress and prospects. Design Studies, 65, 35–59. Article here
For some, the following article by Dorst may give further ideas how co-evolution may be used in rather complex problems as the ones in this course. Perhaps you can reflect how you proceeded wrt to this:
- Dorst, K. (2019). Co-evolution and emergence in design. Design Studies, 65, 60–77. Article here
- Lawson, Bryan, and Kees Dorst. Design Expertise, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009. Here
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If you agree, kindly consider copying the statement below to the front page of the essay. It would help us in developing research insights of the course progress:
I agree my essay to be used as research data for design research studies by Severi Uusitalo and Markus Ahola. In such use the data shall be in anonymized form so that not me, nor the team can be identified from it.
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A minor penalty will be added from the points per each day the essay is late from the deadline.