Research & Epistemology - Lecture 12/10/2016

Process is more important than outcome - if outcome drives process then we will always know where we are heading
- if process drives outcome, things are less certain, we can discover new things and experiment and find out things about our own practice we wouldn't have known had we not taken a risk

"Success comes from having brighter ideas closer together"

Fail better - learn from it
Fail quicker - more time to get it right

Ideas are our currency as creatives, we can't make anything without them, like a builder can't make a wall without any bricks

Stimulated ------- Intuitive
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Intuitive ---------- Systematic

Research is the process of finding already known facts:
Primary research: Generating knowledge of stuff
Secondary research: collecting stuff that has already been generated/collected - create relationships/links with it

• Quantitive Research: facts/figures/measurements - comparing and contrasting these - objective, provable
• Qualitative Research: beliefs/experiences/attitudes/behaviour - subjective, can't prove but can discuss, evaluate and understand through methods like interviews

Quantitative: He is tall - measure their height with a tape measure - objectively provable

Qualitative: He is tall - have them stand against a wall and get people to say how tall they think he is - subjective, based on personal factors about the person being asked

Information is the collated and organised form of raw data - Information should be sufficient, competent, relevant and useful

• Phase 1: Assimilation
  Accumulation and ordering of general info that is related to the problem at hand
• Phase 2: General Study
  The investigation of the nature of the problem - possible solutions or means of solution
• Phase 3: Development
  Furthering ideas and refinement
• Phase 4: Communication
  Revealing your complete findings as a body of research

Solution = usually a compromise between your original idea and what is possible - what you want to do and what you can do

"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing" - Wernher Von Braun

THEORY (CoP) = "Knowing that..."

PRACTICE (Studio) = "Knowing how..."

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Combination of the two = SYNTHESIS

Scope and scale: what do I want to know

Relevance and usefulness: what do I need to do