Thursday, 15 October 2015

COP2: Lecture 1 - Research and Epistemology.

- Think about how your practice exists in the world. 
- Research is the driving force behind your practice as an illustrator, Experiential Learning. 
- Growth is a representation of research. Research process is a step into the unknown.
- Success is process not product. 
- Embrace your failures, learn from them.
-  Go out and look/see/read. Do something that starts ideas flowing. Stimulated Approach. 
- Systematic approach / Intuitive approach. 

What is Research?

Primary - self generated, your own experiences. 
Secondary - Already exists, analyse to fit your problem. 
Qualitative - Defined by fact/numbers.
Qualitative - Subjective / Opinionated.
Thoeretical - Knowing it exists without experiencing it. 
Practical - Through physcial investigation. 

- Initial Research Question - what interests me? The way I see things and my view of the world. 
Intuitive body of knowledge, manipulate into something new.
Paradigm position - my view of the world affects how, what and when. 

How research is done:
- Assimilation: get the information
- General Study: investigate the information
- Development
- Communication: resolution

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