Monsters in the Borderlands: Designer-academics in action
Much attention has been paid to how design – as an activity and a discipline – takes shape, with a focus on the professional designer. This paper explores a different kind of design practitioner - the ‘designer-academic’ - who holds a unique position at the border of pedagogy, practice and research...
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| author | Ely, Philip Saad, Qassim Smith, Dianne |
| author2 | Boess, Stella |
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| description | Much attention has been paid to how design – as an activity and a discipline – takes shape, with a focus on the professional designer. This paper explores a different kind of design practitioner - the ‘designer-academic’ - who holds a unique position at the border of pedagogy, practice and research in the creation not only of new ‘things’, but also processes and ways of working. Taking a reflective look at two projects emergent over a thirty-six month period we provide a glimpse into the everyday complexities of design research-in-action. We argue that we should look at designer-academics alongside the ‘outstanding’ professional designers, for they stand proudly at the borders of knowledge domains and epistemological traditions and are worthy of more attention in the annals of design theory and history. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-806032021-01-14T03:18:41Z Monsters in the Borderlands: Designer-academics in action Ely, Philip Saad, Qassim Smith, Dianne Boess, Stella Cheung, Ming Cain, Rebecca 1203 - Design Practice and Management Much attention has been paid to how design – as an activity and a discipline – takes shape, with a focus on the professional designer. This paper explores a different kind of design practitioner - the ‘designer-academic’ - who holds a unique position at the border of pedagogy, practice and research in the creation not only of new ‘things’, but also processes and ways of working. Taking a reflective look at two projects emergent over a thirty-six month period we provide a glimpse into the everyday complexities of design research-in-action. We argue that we should look at designer-academics alongside the ‘outstanding’ professional designers, for they stand proudly at the borders of knowledge domains and epistemological traditions and are worthy of more attention in the annals of design theory and history. 2020 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80603 10.21606/drs.2020.198 English http://www.designresearchsociety.org/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Design Research Society fulltext |
| spellingShingle | 1203 - Design Practice and Management Ely, Philip Saad, Qassim Smith, Dianne Monsters in the Borderlands: Designer-academics in action |
| title | Monsters in the Borderlands: Designer-academics in action |
| title_full | Monsters in the Borderlands: Designer-academics in action |
| title_fullStr | Monsters in the Borderlands: Designer-academics in action |
| title_full_unstemmed | Monsters in the Borderlands: Designer-academics in action |
| title_short | Monsters in the Borderlands: Designer-academics in action |
| title_sort | monsters in the borderlands: designer-academics in action |
| topic | 1203 - Design Practice and Management |
| url | http://www.designresearchsociety.org/ http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80603 |