ADES 5530 - Theories Employed by Design Researchers

3 hours

Immersive introduction to a diverse set of means to broaden understanding and to explain how and why design research can be formulated to foster and facilitate design processes that yield socially, economically and culturally relevant, innovative and sustainable outcomes. Design research presented is informed by a conceptual paradigm that is epistemologically broad in scope and as such capable of affecting the development of several types of theoretical models that are both practically applicable and that can effectively guide rigorous analytical processes. Introduces the developmental history of design research as a systematically rigorous, academically sound foundation upon which the continued revolution of design as a vital scholarly endeavor depends.

Prerequisite(s): None.

Corequisite(s): ADES 5520.