Creative forms of expression “Research is a process of investigation leading to new insights, effectively shared”. Jan Ijzermans is convinced that we need to explore new relationships between makers and researchers, and especially explore new ways of sharing and expressing meaningful knowledge in an artistic way.

1. dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
Dissemination
for designers
Jan IJzermans
Research in Creative Practices HKU
Drive 2017
Disseminating
Design
Research

2. dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
Research should contribute to creative practices

3. dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
Research should contribute to creative practices
a. ongoing creative practices, leading to a
particular product or service
b. future creative practices: generation of creative
knowledge and increasing understanding
c. the personal development of designers

4. dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
Research should contribute to future practices
a. ongoing creative practices, leading to a
particular product or service
b. future creative practices: generation of creative
knowledge and increasing understanding
c. the personal development of designers

5. dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
Research should contribute to future practices
Many designers say research does not contribute
to their (future) practices

6. dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
Research should contribute to future practices
Most designers are not researchers or
PhD-candidates

7. dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
Research should contribute to future practices
Many designers are not involved in the present
research discourse on future practices

8. dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
Research should contribute to future practices
Many designers are not involved in the present
research discourse on future practices

9. dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
Another division of roles
Role designer
Generate, produce generative knowledge
Co-research
Role researcher
Activate, to help generate
Observing and explaining to help generate
A.

10. dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
Careful consideration of
the transformation that
knowledge has to undergo
to make it shareable
B.

11. dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
Designer’s knowledge
specificity / detail
specialist expertise
multiplicity
continuity

12. dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
Shareable knowledge
compatibility
coherence
usability
Designer’s knowledge
specificity / detail
specialist expertise
multiplicity
continuity

13. dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
Disseminate effectively
Some knowledge can best be shared
locally
Other knowledge can best be shared
in a larger discourse

14. dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
Locally
From designers’ knowledge to design
knowledge
scope: relevance for the local group and
its immediate environment
Interlocally
More requirements as to shareability
scope: relevance for a number of groups
(of the same or different disciplines)

15. dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
Designing and the continual forming of
knowledge
To form knowledge that inspires designing,
that brings movement; not knowledge as
an end
C.

16. dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
Setting of research with designers
for designers
Local, knowledge forming group of designers
aiming at producing generative knowledge in
co-research with researchers. The groups are
in regular contact with other local, knowledge
forming groups of designers with similar aims.

17. dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
Composers/
Sound Designers
Product
Designers
Spatial
Designers
‘Advanced posts’
of creative
agencies
Fine
Artists
Media
Makers
Research in
Creative Practices

18. dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
Composers/
Sound Designers
Product
Designers
Spatial
Designers
‘Advanced posts’
of creative
agencies
Fine
Artists
Media
Makers
Research in
Creative Practices
Local groups
Interlocal exchange
Shared know-
ledge elements
Small publications

19. dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
Personal creative ‘research’ cycle
processing
practice
transforming unlocking

20. dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
Local creative research cycle
processing
practice
transforming unlocking
knowledge
elements

21. dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
Interlocal creative research cycle
other group
or education
sharing
processing
practice
transforming unlocking
knowledge
elements

22. dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
other group
or education
sharing
processing
practice
transforming unlocking
knowledge
elements
Dissemination

23. dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
Composers/
Sound Designers
Product
Designers
Spatial
Designers
‘Advanced posts’
of creative
agencies
Fine
Artists
Media
Makers
Research in
Creative Practices
Improvement &
development of
ways of working
in this research
Local groups
Interlocal exchange
Shared know-
ledge elements
Small publications

24. dissemination for designers
Research in Creative Practices
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