BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Same data\, different perspectives: Sharing data from design meeti ngs to support research into design thinking - Prof Janet McDonnell\, Prof essor at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design DTSTART:20080611T153000Z DTEND:20080611T163000Z UID:TALK11890@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:Thomas Jun DESCRIPTION:In 2006 after many false leads\, blind alleys and just-missed opportunities an architect and his clients and a bunch of product engineer s not only agreed to have video cameras installed to record some of their design meetings\, but also to its distribution to design researchers aroun d the world. In early 2007 the recordings were transcribed and the videos\ , the meeting transcripts\, and copies of all the documents\, plans\, draw ings\, sketches and notes referred to or made during the meetings were dis tributed to twenty-four invited university-based research groups. These re searchers all share a common interest in design thinking and in furthering our understanding of what designing is about. Their backgrounds and affil iations range from psychology\, social science\, linguistics\, to engineer ing\, industrial and product design and architecture and their specific re search motivations\, methods\, goals and agendas are diverse and various. The results of each research group’s analysis of the meeting data were f irst shared at a workshop held in London in September 2007. In this presen tation Janet McDonnell\, one of the organisers of the project\, will talk about the strengths\, pitfalls and challenges of sharing empirical data fr om naturally occurring design meetings. She will give an overview of the p roject\, describe the data and what research themes were explored\, and sh e will raise issues about what this /common data/ model for research has t o offer the design research community. LOCATION:Meeting Rooms 1A+1B\, (off the Oatly Lab)\, 2nd Floor\, Engineeri ng Department END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR