蕃邦第三十二週

介紹這本書:
Gray, Carole, and Julian Malins. Visualizing Research : A Guide to the Research Process in Art and Design. Burlington: Ashgate, 2004.

這是關於藝術與設計領域如何做研究
由於藝術與設計學門從本質上就與科學研究有些不同
而所謂'創作研究'在國內更是見解不一甚至容易產生爭議
其實它的定義早在1996就獲得共識 以下是英國的研究組織解釋:
UK’s 1996 Research Assessment Exercise the following appeared:Professional practice qualifies as research when it can be shown to be firmly located within a research context, to be subject to interrogation and critical review and to impact on or influence the work of peers, policy and practice. (能被確實定位於研究脈絡下的專業實務產出,能接受質問與批判性回顧,並能衝擊或影響該領域現有的創作思維與方法) p.s我英翻中愈來愈爛了

進一步 關於'創作'以'研究'為過程的特徵: p.s懶得翻譯了
AHRB provide a helpful definition of research as a process involving three key features:
1. Clearly articulated research questions to be addressed through the research, and a related series of objectives which will enable the questions to be explored and answered.
2. The specification of a research context for the questions, and a rationale for why it is important that these particular questions should be answered or explored; this description of context should make clear what other research is being or has been conducted in this area; and what particular contribution this particular project will make to the advancement of creativity, insights, knowledge and understanding in this area.
3. The specification of appropriate research methods for addressing and answering the research questions, and a rationale for the use of particular methods.
其實與熟知的研究過程沒兩樣.

至於'原創性' 這本書也有敘述何謂原創性:
1. Carrying out empirical work that hasn't been done before.
2. Using already know ideas, practices or approaches but with a new interpretation.
3. Bringing new evidence to bear on an old issue or problem.
4. Creating a new synthesis that has not been done before.
5. Applying something done in another country to one's own country.
6. Being cross-disciplinary by using different methodologies.
7. Looking at areas that people in the discipline have not looked at before.
8. Giving a good exposition of another's idea.

翻譯:
1.做別人之前沒做過的研究
2.運用已知的知識或方法進行新的用途
3.把新的東西帶入舊有的議題或問題
4.創造之前未有的新的綜合體(當然可能綜合既有知識或跨領域知識)
5.把這個國家有的東西帶入沒有這個東西的國家(例如把檳榔攤設在澳洲以了解同樣的東西在不統文化可能造成的衝擊或激發不同的議題與觀點)
6.用不同的方法跨領域(就好像如異花授粉 得到新品種)
7.看到該領域之前沒人注意到的地方
8.將別人的點子給予良好的闡釋 (闡釋的產出物在藝術與設計領域最有可能的就是'作品')
(其實總共有18點 另外十點就不詳述了)