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Course Name	Turkish	Uygulamaya Bağlı Tasarım Araştırmaları Metodları
	English	Methods for Prac.Desig.Res.
Course Code	EUT 616E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Çiğdem Kaya
Course Objectives		1. Portraying the literature of practice-led design research. 2. Informing the basic concepts of practice-led design research. 3. Providing background theory to assist students to construct research concepts that can be addressed with practice-led research. 4. Providing methods to address a particular research question in practice-led design research. 5. Providing skills to find an appropriate method or modify one to be used in practice-led research. 6. To develop a mock practice-led design research plan.
Course Description		When do we need practice-led research? Strengths and weaknesses; Practice, practitioner and reflection-in-action; Examples of prior practice-led design research; Practice-led research for industrial design; Designing through participants; Action research for design research; Participatory observation for design research; Overview of other methods for design research; Capturing one’s performance: Drawing, photography, diaries and descriptive writing; Video footage and audio footage; Selecting an appropriate concept of inquiry; Constructing a research question; Studying methods to address the research question; Developing a research diagram.
Course Outcomes		Ph.D. students who successfully pass this course gain knowledge, skill and competency in the following subjects; 1. Be well-informed about the need for practice-led design research via studying the literature. 2. Be informed about methods that have been used in prior practice-led design research. 3. Be informed about how prior researchers have selected, modified and developed methods of inquiry in practice-led research. 4. Be able to identify concepts that need to be addressed by practice-led research. 5. Be able to construct research questions (from the above mentioned concepts) that can be and need to be addressed by practice-led research methods. 6. Be able to find, modify or develop methods to address their research questions. 7. Be able to design a research plan.
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