Introduction: Shared Data in Design Research

TY - CHAP

T1 - Introduction: Shared Data in Design Research

AU - Christensen, Bo

AU - Ball, Linden

AU - Halskov, Kim

PY - 2017/1/1

Y1 - 2017/1/1

N2 - The Design Thinking Research Symposium (DTRS) series, of which this book is part, is an interdisciplinary symposium series linking international academics with a shared interest in design thinking and design studies coming from a diversity of disciplines, including psychology, anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, architecture, and design studies. The series provides an international forum for pioneering and state-of-the-art research on design thinking that is focused on the study of design practice from various perspectives. The 25 year history of the DTRS series is also a story of almost 25 years of shared datasets in design thinking research. This data-sharing approach was initiated in the seminal ‘Delft Protocol Workshop’ (now also labelled DTRS2), which was organized by Kees Dorst, Nigel Cross and Henri Christiaans at Delft University of Technology in 1994 (Cross, Christiaans, & Dorst, 1996; Dorst, 1995) and was based around verbal protocol data collected from professional designers in a controlled context. Subsequently, two more DTRS events have involved shared data. DTRS7, organized by Janet McDonnell and Peter Lloyd, involved professional designers (architects and engineers) working in their natural habitats (Lloyd & McDonnell, 2009; McDonnell & Lloyd, 2009a, 2009b), and DTRS10, organized by Robin Adams, involved design review conversations in a design education setting (Adams & Siddiqui, 2016; Adams, Cardella, & Purzer, 2016; Adams, McMullen, & Fosmire, 2016). At the DTRS11 25th anniversary dinner, Kees Dorst remarked in his celebratory comments that sharing design data is, first and foremost, about academic generosity. For past DTRS organizers, the labour involved in collecting and distributing the data has certainly been substantial. However, the beneficiaries of that labour are not solely restricted to the design research teams involved in the shared data analyses, but extend to the wider academic community as the receivers of the resulting publications. The three previous shared datasets have had a huge impact on the design research literature, with the resulting 3 book publications (not counting all the ensuing journal publications) attracting many hundreds of citations. But outside of design research it remains the case that shared datasets with video data are extremely rare in the humanities, social sciences and technical sciences. Nonetheless, global trends towards so-called ‘Open Science’ clearly indicate that the sharing of video data holds substantial research potential (Adams, Radcliffe, & Fosmire, 2016).

AB - The Design Thinking Research Symposium (DTRS) series, of which this book is part, is an interdisciplinary symposium series linking international academics with a shared interest in design thinking and design studies coming from a diversity of disciplines, including psychology, anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, architecture, and design studies. The series provides an international forum for pioneering and state-of-the-art research on design thinking that is focused on the study of design practice from various perspectives. The 25 year history of the DTRS series is also a story of almost 25 years of shared datasets in design thinking research. This data-sharing approach was initiated in the seminal ‘Delft Protocol Workshop’ (now also labelled DTRS2), which was organized by Kees Dorst, Nigel Cross and Henri Christiaans at Delft University of Technology in 1994 (Cross, Christiaans, & Dorst, 1996; Dorst, 1995) and was based around verbal protocol data collected from professional designers in a controlled context. Subsequently, two more DTRS events have involved shared data. DTRS7, organized by Janet McDonnell and Peter Lloyd, involved professional designers (architects and engineers) working in their natural habitats (Lloyd & McDonnell, 2009; McDonnell & Lloyd, 2009a, 2009b), and DTRS10, organized by Robin Adams, involved design review conversations in a design education setting (Adams & Siddiqui, 2016; Adams, Cardella, & Purzer, 2016; Adams, McMullen, & Fosmire, 2016). At the DTRS11 25th anniversary dinner, Kees Dorst remarked in his celebratory comments that sharing design data is, first and foremost, about academic generosity. For past DTRS organizers, the labour involved in collecting and distributing the data has certainly been substantial. However, the beneficiaries of that labour are not solely restricted to the design research teams involved in the shared data analyses, but extend to the wider academic community as the receivers of the resulting publications. The three previous shared datasets have had a huge impact on the design research literature, with the resulting 3 book publications (not counting all the ensuing journal publications) attracting many hundreds of citations. But outside of design research it remains the case that shared datasets with video data are extremely rare in the humanities, social sciences and technical sciences. Nonetheless, global trends towards so-called ‘Open Science’ clearly indicate that the sharing of video data holds substantial research potential (Adams, Radcliffe, & Fosmire, 2016).

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M3 - Bidrag til bog/antologi

SN - 9781138748446

SP - 1

EP - 18

BT - Analysing Design Thinking

A2 - Christensen, Bo

A2 - Ball, Linden

A2 - Halskov, Kim

PB - CRC Press

ER -