Keynote on Design Research

This week I presented the work I have done on design research as the closing keynote at the Art of Research seminar at University of Art and Design Helsinki.

The talk was a summary of the work I did in my PhD in order to explore and argue for the fact that design research – especially in a research-through-design perspective – can be seen as a fully qualified and valid, academic, scientific form of research.

I had great fun actually writing this section last year and exploring all the nerdy philosophy-of-science readings I could find relating to design. Usually other PhD’s hate this part of the dissertation, but I found it ot be almost relieving tension, as I found that it was EASY to argue for the fact that design research – and my little research project – was valid science.

I put the presentation on to Slideshare.net – hope it works.

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And if you are interested a copy of the dissertation where the actual detailed work is presented, then please send me a line.