Stories from Third Space - A Case and Considerations of Design Research Education from a Swedish Vantage Point
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| Title: | Stories from Third Space - A Case and Considerations of Design Research Education from a Swedish Vantage Point |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Maria Hellström Reimer (ORCID |
| Source: | Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice. 2024 23(1):23-45. |
| Availability: | SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: https://sagepub.com |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 23 |
| Publication Date: | 2024 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Education Level: | Higher Education Postsecondary Education |
| Descriptors: | Foreign Countries, Research Design, Educational Research, Knowledge Economy, Space Classification, Interdisciplinary Approach, Faculty, Higher Education |
| Geographic Terms: | Sweden |
| DOI: | 10.1177/14740222231200183 |
| ISSN: | 1474-0222 1741-265X |
| Abstract: | Debates continue about the positioning of design within research-driven universities. While the idea of autonomy has had a strong appeal, it is the bridging across established academic cultures that has proved especially effective for legitimizing design research and research education. Revisiting a conception of design as a 'Third Space' and drawing on a case - the Swedish Faculty for Design Research and Research Education (2008-2015) - we discuss what 'thirdness' can entail in context. Our account of this case reveals the unsettled dynamics of navigating in, between and across academic cultures. Design research education, we argue, has prospects to cultivate a critical space within academia, in which its 'thirdness' entails sensitization and agitation of the territorial conditions of knowledge. There is a need for a reconsideration of design - and academia more generally - not as a static disciplinary order but as a contested archipelago that opens for alternative orientations. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2024 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1408561 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | Debates continue about the positioning of design within research-driven universities. While the idea of autonomy has had a strong appeal, it is the bridging across established academic cultures that has proved especially effective for legitimizing design research and research education. Revisiting a conception of design as a 'Third Space' and drawing on a case - the Swedish Faculty for Design Research and Research Education (2008-2015) - we discuss what 'thirdness' can entail in context. Our account of this case reveals the unsettled dynamics of navigating in, between and across academic cultures. Design research education, we argue, has prospects to cultivate a critical space within academia, in which its 'thirdness' entails sensitization and agitation of the territorial conditions of knowledge. There is a need for a reconsideration of design - and academia more generally - not as a static disciplinary order but as a contested archipelago that opens for alternative orientations. |
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| ISSN: | 1474-0222 1741-265X |
| DOI: | 10.1177/14740222231200183 |
