Seaton outlined the importance of establishing your problem within your chosen subject matter as a base to work from. We need to work though our 'domain of obstacles' from our 'given state' to our 'goal state'. In essence through our research try and find a solution to our problem. He gave us some interesting insight on how to go about this. The idea that looking at one thing leads to something else and something else, its like pandoras box, you cant just stick your hand in and retreive one question or answer without this leading to 3 more... I guess he was just trying to reinforce the point that research is messy so it is important to narrow down your subject area and come up with a question that is important to you...
Emma delved into this idea further and spoke about the differnt methodologies we could use. She spoke about action research, grounded theory, case studies and ethnography as all possible vehicles of our research. I think that my main methodolgy will be that of action research as that is more about working with people to find a solution rather than the observation of people and their actions. However I feel these lines of methodologies are blurry so I dont think it will be possible to stick rigidly to one.
I am finding these lectures very helpful as they are challenging me to look at myself, how i research and why I research. Hopefully this will help me to have a more considered and worthwhile project. I really want to understand why I want to design, who im designing for and what purpose does this serve...
This cartoon sums up the problems we are faced when designing, nobody thinks the same or views problems from the same stance... how can we simplify down our 'problem' so we can research and design the best solution to our problem...
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