METODA · Methodological Explorations between Design and Social Sciences
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2016-09-01 → 2018-02-28
- EU contribution
- €137,591
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MSCA-IF-EF-ST
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Results in brief
Methodological Explorations between Design and Social Sciences
METODA is a research project that explores how we can use techniques from design and art to develop creative and experimental research methods. Examples of such techniques are mapping, prototyping, drawing, probing, storytelling, and scenario making. Techniques used in designing include a variety of tools and devices used to create visual representations, narratives, fictions, probes, prototypes, and speculative proposals. Design techniques involve the use of artefacts, images and narratives as experimental thinking materials. They offer new and interesting ways for researchers to engage with research subjects creatively such as play, performance, simulation, and appropriation. They offer researchers new ways of thinking about the worlds, the material, technological, social and sensory environments and the people who are research subjects. The project highlights the potential of these techniques as research methods that build knowledge through making, experimenting and disrupting. The project did this by collecting and showcasing examples of other projects that used design techniques as research methods. The project engaged in a series of dialogues with researchers that explored design techniques as part of their research. The project conducted a series of workshops with students and researchers across different disciplines and venues to explore trial and experiment with design techniques in research practice. The project also developed a prototype of a methods kit for anyone doing research that wants to experience and learn how techniques from design and the arts can function as research methods. .
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Project objective
The aim of this project is to explore how the repertoire of qualitative methods in the social sciences can be enriched by integrating methods and techniques from the fields of design and art to develop creative and novel modes of doing imaginative and critical research. This project attempts addresses recent calls within some social science disciplines such as sociology, human geography, media studies, anthropology, and Science and Technology Studies, for renewed approaches to methods. Recent works within different social science disciplines have stressed the need for methodologies capable of attending to the social and cultural world as mobile, digital, messy, interconnected, creative and sensory. There have been calls for social science methodologies that not only describe the worlds they observe but also are capable of intervening in and transforming them. This project begins from the premise that the creative, expressive, and participatory methods, techniques and practices within the fields of design and art constitute fertile ground for developing methodological innovation within the social sciences.The project will develop a database of examples of projects that have developed interdisciplinary methods between social science and design, conduct interviews with academic researchers and industry practitioners using innovative methods conduct workshops to explore how new methodological tools for collecting analyzing and communicating research data can be developed and applied.Ultimately, the project will develop new knowledge and innovation on interdisciplinary methods between design and the social sciences and develop new methodological tools and devices for collecting, analyzing, and communicating research data.
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Participants
- UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK · COVENTRYCoordinatorUnited Kingdom
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