scholarly journals POSSIBILITY OF THE USAGE OF THE VISUAL RESEARCH METHODS WITHIN THE DESIGN EDUCATION

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 64
Author(s):  
Andra Irbite ◽  
Aina Strode
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Visual Research ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Visual Research Methods ◽  
Intellectual Formation ◽  
Systemic Design ◽  
Research Show

Young people are forming and will form the environment of today and tomorrow. This reinforces the necessity of the young generation’s active involvement in the promotion of positive change. This approach cannot be otherwise as systemic and impossible without research and data analysis. Visual research methods, which are self-evident in design and art, are widely used in a number of other disciplines. To achieve an objective and reliable results, they often are combined with quantitative, analytic, generative and other methods. The aim of the paper - to discuss the ways of visual research methods' use in combination with systemic design thinking approach in finding new solutions in promotion of strategies for environmental and social change. Research methods – analysis of literature and case study. The results of the research show that images can be used to document the reality and can help students in the intellectual formation of concepts and strategies.

Can visual methods actually challenge hierarchies? A case study from Papua New Guinea

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 371-388
Author(s):  
Laura Simpson Reeves ◽  
Lauren Leigh Hinthorne
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Local Community ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Visual Methods ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Visual Research ◽  
Visual Research Methods

Abstract Visual research methods continue to be explored as a viable tool within community development, particularly amongst advocates for participatory approaches. It is widely agreed that visual research methods can assist participants in externalizing abstract concepts and create spaces for reflective dialogue. However, these methods are frequently used across the sector with little theorizing or critical reflection. Moreover, visual research methods and participatory processes are often conflated. There is also an assumption that visual research methods, particularly when used in development contexts, can disrupt power structures. This research draws on a case study from Papua New Guinea (PNG) to modestly challenge this assumption and, in doing so, argues for more critical and reflexive practice across community development. The article critically analyses a workshop held in rural PNG in 2013 that employed a visual multimethod approach. The workshop took place over four days with the aim of creating a local community development plan. Perhaps unsurprisingly, we found that while the visual research methods used in PNG demonstrated evidence of shifting some power structures, this was not necessarily because of the method or methods themselves, and was actually more closely linked to the locale in which we facilitated the method(s).

scholarly journals Visual ethnography for performative geographies: how women politicians perform identities on Ecuadorian political stages

2013 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 195-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Schurr
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Women Politicians ◽  
Human Geography ◽  
The Political ◽  
Visual Ethnography ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Visual Research ◽  
Visual Research Methods

Abstract. While there has been intense discussion of the theories of performativity in human geography, little has been said about the methodological implications of the performative turn. This paper suggests visual ethnography as a suitable methodology for performative geographies, since it focuses explicitly on the embodied and non-textual performances that bring both subjectivities and spatialities into being. In order to be able to connect the observed performances with performativity, a visual ethnography of performativity needs to be developed that combines visual research methods with insights about visual culture. By drawing on a visual ethnographic case study of politicians' identity performances in Ecuador, I show in the empirical section of this paper how the filmed identity performances can be linked and contrasted to hegemonic discourses around masculinity, femininity, whiteness, and indigenousness represented in Ecuador's visual culture. This visual ethnography reveals the ambivalence of their identity performances in which the politicians are constantly torn between responding to and simultaneously resisting hegemonic discourses around the masculinity and whiteness of the political.

scholarly journals BRINGING SYSTEMIC DESIGN IN THE EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE: THE CASE OF GENDER EQUALITY IN AN ACADEMIC CONTEXT

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 581-590
Author(s):  
Alexis JP Jacoby ◽  
Kristel Van Ael
Keyword(s):  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Academic Context ◽  
Traditional Design ◽  
Systemic Problems ◽  
Societal Problems ◽  
Systemic Design

AbstractThe field of design practice and design education is reaching out to address problems that cannot be solved by introducing a single product or service. Complex societal problems such as gender inequality cannot be solved using a traditional problem-solving oriented design approach. The specific characteristics of these problems require new ways of dealing with the dynamics, scale and complexity of the problem.Systemic design is a design approach integrating systems thinking in combination with more traditional design methodologies, addressing complex and systemic problems. This paper reports a systemic design approach in an educational context for the case of academic gender inequality. We show the way the problem was addressed and how design students were invited to take a systemic perspective, provide integrated interventions and take first steps in providing instruments for implementation. We conclude with the learnings from this case study, both on the process and the results.

Book Review: The Sage Handbook of Visual Research Methods

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-248
Author(s):  
Dylan Yamada-Rice ◽  
Eve Stirling ◽  
Lisa Procter ◽  
Maram Almansour
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Visual Research ◽  
Visual Research Methods

scholarly journals Systemic Design: Two Canadian Case Studies

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Ryan ◽  
Mark Leung
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Management System ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Resource Management System ◽  
First Case ◽  
Systemic Design

This paper introduces two novel applications of systemic design to facilitate a comparison of alternative methodologies that integrate systems thinking and design. In the first case study, systemic design helped the Procurement Department at the University of Toronto re-envision how public policy is implemented and how value is created in the broader university purchasing ecosystem. This resulted in an estimated $1.5 million in savings in the first year, and a rise in user retention rates from 40% to 99%. In the second case study, systemic design helped the clean energy and natural resources group within the Government of Alberta to design a more efficient and effective resource management system and shift the way that natural resource departments work together. This resulted in the formation of a standing systemic design team and contributed to the creation of an integrated resource management system. A comparative analysis of the two projects identifies a shared set of core principles for systemic design as well as areas of differentiation that reveal potential for learning across methodologies. Together, these case studies demonstrate the complementarity of systems thinking and design thinking, and show how they may be integrated to guide positive change within complex sociotechnical systems.

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