The relationship between research and design

Lenzholzer, Sanda; Duchhart, I.; Brink, A. van den

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“…What characterizes research in landscape architecture and other design principles, is that the design product as well as the design process may be the object of study. Lenzholder et al ( 2017 ) therefore distinguish three kinds of research in landscape architecture. The first kind, “Research into design” studies the design product post hoc and the MIR framework suits the interdisciplinary study of such a product.…”

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“…At first, just like Deming and Swaffield ( 2011 ), we were a bit skeptical about “designing” as a research method. Lenzholder et al ( 2017 ) pose that the meaning of research through design has evolved through a (neo)positivist, constructivist and transformative paradigm to include a pragmatic stance that resembles the pragmatic stance assumed in the MIR framework. We learned that, because landscape architecture is such an interdisciplinary field, the process approach and the distinction between a conceptual and technical research design was considered very helpful and embraced by researchers in landscape architecture (Tobi and van den Brink 2017 ).…”

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Research design: the methodology for interdisciplinary research framework

2017

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Many of today’s global scientific challenges require the joint involvement of researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds (social sciences, environmental sciences, climatology, medicine, etc.). Such interdisciplinary research teams face many challenges resulting from differences in training and scientific culture. Interdisciplinary education programs are required to train truly interdisciplinary scientists with respect to the critical factor skills and competences. For that purpose this paper presents the Methodology for Interdisciplinary Research (MIR) framework. The MIR framework was developed to help cross disciplinary borders, especially those between the natural sciences and the social sciences. The framework has been specifically constructed to facilitate the design of interdisciplinary scientific research, and can be applied in an educational program, as a reference for monitoring the phases of interdisciplinary research, and as a tool to design such research in a process approach. It is suitable for research projects of different sizes and levels of complexity, and it allows for a range of methods’ combinations (case study, mixed methods, etc.). The different phases of designing interdisciplinary research in the MIR framework are described and illustrated by real-life applications in teaching and research. We further discuss the framework’s utility in research design in landscape architecture, mixed methods research, and provide an outlook to the framework’s potential in inclusive interdisciplinary research, and last but not least, research integrity.

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Research design: the methodology for interdisciplinary research framework

2017

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“…In RTD, pragmatist approaches involve the integration of knowledge because an issue can partly lie within the workings of nature (post-positivist knowledge) and partly relate to socio-cultural aspects (constructivist and transformative/participatory knowledge), often in a given context (Lenzholzer, Duchhart, and Koh 2013, 124). Literature indicates that pragmatist approaches are particularly useful to urban design and landscape architecture but that its usefulness has not been tested (Lenzholzer, Duchhart, and van den Brink 2017;Lenzholzer, Nijhuis, and Cortesão 2018).…”

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Generating applicable urban design knowledge

Cortesão

Lenzholzer

Klok

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Journal of Urban Design

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This article explores how the combination of research approaches in Research Through Design (RTD) can contribute to generating applicable urban design knowledge. The article is based on learnings from the 'Really cooling water bodies in cities' project, a pragmatist RTD combining post-positivist, constructivist and transformative/participatory approaches along six design iterations. The results indicate that the combination of research approaches in RTD can contribute to generating applicable urban design knowledge when the approaches are carefully chosen and combined as to provide feedback on each other, based on a coherent rationale driven by clear research questions and goals.

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“…While the research portrayed in this article displays aspects of all four modes, it is most noticeably placed within both the (post)positivist and the pragmatist modes. The former is characterised by aiming for deductible knowledge and verified theory/design guidelines via design hypothesis testing, and design experiments based on site-specific surveys; the latter mixes research methods depending on the specific research questions with the aim to derive new practice-oriented knowledge that includes new design knowledge (Lenholzer et al, 2017). Furthermore, Lenholzer et al (2017) stipulate that developments in computation regarding handling of large amounts of data; advanced visualisation methods (augmented reality, virtual reality, etc.…”

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Performance-oriented architecture and urban design

Hensel

Sørensen²

2019

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This article discusses a performance-oriented approach to architectural and urban design that seeks to intensify the interaction between architectures and their specific settings and environments. The overarching aim is to expand performance-oriented design in architecture to urban design and to integrate architectural, urban design and landscape design into a multi-scalar and multi-domain approach. This effort is currently comprised of three distinct research by design efforts: [i] designs for urban areas with a focus on demographic and environmental aspects, [ii] designs for peripheral areas with a focus on preserving or restoring vital local bio-physical conditions and interrelations, and [iii] designs for rural areas that elaborate an integrative approach towards constructions and correlating land uses. In order to facilitate this approach, computational information-based design is linked with systems-thinking. The portrayed research was undertaken at the Research Centre for Architecture and Tectonics and the Advanced Computational Design Laboratory at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design over a period of five years from 2014 to 2018.

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The relationship between research and design

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Research design: the methodology for interdisciplinary research framework

Research design: the methodology for interdisciplinary research framework

Generating applicable urban design knowledge

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