Wednesday, 30 November 2016

COP LECTURE 8 - What Is Research?

What is research?

- Something that must be done before idea generation/ producing work

- Taking initial ideas and researching/ developing from this

- The process of finding facts. These facts lead to knowledge, research is done by using what is already known.

- Information should be sufficient, competent, relevant and useful

- Research is a fundamental part of context of practice, personal and professional practice and studio practice.

- Activity, going out and getting information is just as important as the analysis

-research is practice

- Process is more important than the outcome, the process is far more interesting than already knowing the outcome and manipulating the process to suit.

- Don't just straighten and clarify the world, it reflects the world as we venture beyond problem solving.

- Research develops genius', everyone is a genius at least once a year

- Fail in order to get better, step out of comfort zone.

- Be excited by new possibilities

- Practice makes perfect

- Don't worry about being wrong fail quicker, practice quickly in order to produce solutions quicker.

- You won't know the outcome until you engage with the process.

- Get it wrong before you get it right

- If we already knew what it was it wouldn't be called research.

- It's ok not to know what you're doing

- Intelligent people ask questions, do research and want to learn more.

- Not knowing is the basis of research.

- Ideas are the currency of what we do

- Research is to see what everybody else has seen and to think what nobody else has thought

- Stimulative approach, visiting inspiring places, watching inspiring documentaries/ films and reading interesting books.

- Intuitive approach, ideas that come from past experiences/ knowledge. multiple ideas generated.


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