TAD4541 Research methods in design

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Be aware of current discourses in a range of disciplines which bear on contemporary design;

2. 2

   Be able to pursue critical arguments with a sense of their ideological relativity;

3. 3

   Assess the bias of an investigative method, considering gender, class and ethnicity;

4. 4

   Understand methodology as a critique of method and be able to practice criticism in their chosen field;

5. 5

   Be ready to explain the basis of designs or art works not merely as the outcome of practical constraints but the expression of cultural values.