thinking about Research Design..where to from here...

Going back to an earlier post...

Anna Dumitriu from The Centre for Research & Development Faculty of Arts, University of Brighton
http://artsresearch.brighton.ac.uk/research/student/dumitriu/abstract-research-questions
http://artsresearch.brighton.ac.uk/

so onto research design..how do I design this project..nailing down the aims might generate the question?
which can be my aim for next week..haha
read Marks confirmation doc, and revisit Design Research edited by Laurel.



Research Title..not the catchy one but the one that says what I'm investigating?
Practice Based Investigation into the Relationship of Normal Flora Microbiology to Philosophical Notions of the Sublime
Aims
This project will interrogate the possibilities of scientific imagery as art – its allegorical, expressive, and social character...

Research Question
Key question
How does the....
Questions arising as a result of the research:
italics from Anna Dumitriu

“Complex systems theory and evolutionary robotics for 7-11 year olds, with emergent outcomes.

Robot Sound Detectives Algorithm Dance. The project looked at how we experience the world and how particular areas of focus change our perception of experience.

Brighton and Hove City Council invited Anna Dumitriu to develop an artwork to mark “Walk To School Week” in collaboration with St Nicolas Junior School in Portslade. This year’s events had a national theme of “Sound Detectives” which in many ways focused on experience, the experience of walking to school, the senses being used, how the senses are focussed and what is noticed and what is left out. Through workshop sessions about robot sensor technology which included performance exercises the children learnt how robots are able to sense and interact with the world and change (or evolve) their behaviour appropriately. More deeply the project looked at how we experience the world and how particular areas of focus change our perception of experience. This relates strongly to ideas of mindfulness, and the notion that the sensation of consciousness may be the compound result of our senses acting together in the world. The project took many ideas from the evolutionary robotics discipline and in particular Francisco Varela’s work on The Embodied Mind. Children participated in performance exercises designed to her them experience the world (and their journey to school) in a new mindful way, sensing their environment and experiences through their interactions with it and building on those sensations to create a a more powerful sense of awareness.

http://web.mac.com/annadumitriu/AD/Algorithm_March.html

Jayne Wallace-Digital Jewellery -practice-centred research

from her web page..

"I am an artist jeweller and researcher. My work explores the potential of digital jewellery within personal experience and human relationships.

My doctoral research was a practice-centred enquiry of digital jewellery and personal significance and from this point my work has focused on the creation of digital artefacts that invoke the human-relational richness of jewellery to resist our expectations of the digital and to offer fresh aesthetics and potentialities."

http://www.digitaljewellery.com/




looking at "practice-centred methodology rooted in craft practice that tests the appropriateness of contemporary jewellery practice as a creative strategy and research tool in the development of personal and emotionally significant digital jewellery".

Blossom from Jayne Wallace on Vimeo.