GRAD703 – Week 08

Waves, The evolution of the Chinese characters

Reflection on lecture series (summary + critique).
Reflection on class exercises (summary + critique).
Self Directed Learning (summary + critique).

Summary: Describe the content and relevance. Contextualise the goal and intention behind the activity, content and/or exercise.
Critique: Reflect on the learnings and expand. What did you take from the activity/exercise? What’s your opinion? How does it relates to your project? What are other elements to add and consider? What are the extra materials, links and connections?

Blog post content guidelines

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Lecture all about

The focus of this week is methodology and design research. The most important thing in this chapter is the fact to ensure the information you gather is correct. To do that, QUESTIONING the source, and where the source is from, is based on previous research. if so, who provided or sponsored the research?

The other thing to be noticed is misinformation, the example was five seconds rule. It is something people believe but without concrete evidence.

Another word that is similar to misinformation is disinformation; if misinformation is someone sharing a piece of information unintentionally or without an intention for harm, then disinformation is purposely made to harm.

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Information gathering & Class activities

The identification of methodology and method.

• Reflective Inquiry
• Historiography
• Narrative inquiry.
• Ethnography. 
• Auto Ethnography
• User Centre – Using what is designed
• Heuristic Inquiry – Discoveries

Over the lecture, we saw 7 methodologies for most usage. And we were asked to identify which one fit our topic the best.

I was thinking somewhat about ethnography and historiography.

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Methodology explains

Ethnography is the study of nationality culture

historiography is the study of history, text, language and customs.

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Read of the week

Creative practice as research: discourse on methodology by Skains, R. L.

The article primarily focuses on the importance of practice-led research. And how it has been used in medical and engineering pathways. In literature, the term practice-led research was also frequently mentioned. The significance of practice is that the individual gains new insight into the already established field, the time spent developing the theories and trying to find contexts creatively around the topic could lead to an unexpected result. The most interesting takeaway for me is the Graeme Sullivan model; the framework was a new concept to me. From what I understand, it is a system that has four elements. The theory, which means a well-known issue or methodology; The concept means the creation of something and then feeding it back to the process as part of the research; The logic, and it means to question the topic and the relationship with the mean of expiration; and the context, is the final output, the work that made to respond the idea for the good of society.