DESB76 Research for/through design: Writing seminar

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Synchronous online teaching
Teacher(s)
Roberto Cibin, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Josef Kocurek (lecturer)
Mgr. Roman Sellner Novotný (lecturer)
PhDr. Ladislava Zbiejczuk Suchá, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Roberto Cibin, Ph.D.
Department of Information and Library Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Alice Lukavská
Supplier department: Department of Information and Library Studies – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites (in Czech)
SOUHLAS
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 12 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 4/12, only registered: 0/12
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The DESB76 Research for/through design: writing seminar is intended for students who have done their own research in the field of information services design and want to work on a written output (report, article) from this research as part of the seminar. The course is primarily intended for students of the Information Services Design (B.Sc.) program and students of the design profile of the ISK Master's program.
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the course, the learner will be able to:
- understand, explain and apply the Research for Design approach and Research through Design,
- critically evaluate the role of design approaches in the context of information science,
- navigate the range of scholarly resources in design thinking, information services design and related fields,
- to prepare a systematic search in a selected area of their own design research;
- produce a professional text in the field of design research.
Syllabus
  • The course takes place in the form of joint meetings and individual or group mentoring/supervision for writing a professional text. Dates for meetings are always on Tuesdays at 6pm on the following dates: September 17th (introductory organizational session) September 24th (academic writing kick-off) October 15th (progress sharing session) November 5th (progress sharing session) November 26th (progress sharing session) December 17th (progress sharing session) January 21st (final sharing session)
Literature
  • Bardzell, J., Bardzell, S., Dalsgaard, P., Gross, S., & Halskov, K. (2016). Documenting the Research Through Design Process. Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, 96–107. https://doi.org/10.1145/2901790.2901859
  • Frayling, C. (1993). Research in art and design. Royal College of Art.
  • Bell, S. J., & Shank, J. D. (2007). Academic librarianship by design: a blended librarian’s guide to the tools and techniques. American Library Association.
  • Giaccardi, E. (2019). Histories and futures of research through design : From prototypes to connected things. International Journal of Design, 13.
  • Zimmerman, J., Forlizzi, J., & Evenson, S. (2007). Research through design as a method for interaction design research in HCI. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 493–502. https://doi.org/10.1145/1240624.124070
  • Redström, J., & Wiltse, H. (2020). Changing things: the future of objects in a digital world (Paperback edition). Bloomsbury Visual Arts.
  • Clarke, R. I. (2018). How we done it good: Research through design as a legitimate methodology for librarianship. Library & Information Science Research, 40(3–4), 255–261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2018.09.007
  • Blythe, M. (2014). Research through design fiction: narrative in real and imaginary abstracts. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 703–712. https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557098
Teaching methods
Lectures, individual and group mentoring, supervision.
Assessment methods
To complete the course you must meet the following conditions:

  • active presence in class (especially sharing sessions)
  • completion of a research report or a professional article or conference paper,
  • participation in the final sharing session in lunch.
    • Language of instruction
    Czech
    Further Comments
    Study Materials
    The course is taught annually.
    The course is taught: every other week.
    The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2023.
    • Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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