Design research incubation

Abstract

‘Design Research Incubation’ explores the supervision of design research. The project was motivated by our observations that the nature of design research about design practice and research in other subjects often confuses students, supervisors, and colleagues. The research was a collaboration between the German University in Cairo (GUC) and Anhalt University of Applied Sciences. The project brought together six master’s students from the GUC and their peers at Anhalt University to discuss their design research projects. Workshops focused on critical reflection, including clarifying research questions and projects, relating theoretical and practical research, and visualizing research. Observations from these discussions prompted the development of a ‘speculative course book’ compiling sources to support design research supervision (...).