Theme 1
Hello,
I too, like you, had a clouded mind regarding the message Kant wanted to mediate with his Critique for Pure Reason prior to the seminar. But your reasoning shows that a week spent wondering and pondering at the lecture and seminar gave you a better understanding of the texts. That space and time comes inherently to each person does seem obvious and in line with Kant's reasoning. But an interesting thought to debate this with is: imagine an infant child being held in solitude from any outer stimuli, culture or upbringing, would this child still gain the same perception of space and time? Would the child learn to walk (a question we discussed during our seminar) or what skills would s/he develop? Would s/he inherit the same skills as any other child or would it differ due to the complete separation?
Hi!
I completly agree with you that there has to be a balance in how we view and percieve the world, otherwise it would really be kind of dull and static as you say! And yes, media is truly powerful. Often more so than governments, at least more influential. You have probably seen the clip but I must mention it anyhow. When Hans Rosling visits a Danish news studio and lectures him in how the world works. There he explicitly says that you cannot use media to learn about the world. Not to be blind and trust all that is said by the journalists and news anchors.
Regarding your last sentence, do you mean that a reproduction can serve the same purpose as an original? Would you say that reproductions indifferent substitues that fulfill the same need and feel despite loosing their "aura" as claimed in the texts? Might the aura only be lost to those who are truly educated and versed in art?
Overall, insightful reflections about this week’s theme!
First off, I have to concur that quantitative methods did not turn out to be as easily defined or determined as initially believed. I too had a feeling beforehand what was which but when actually trying to make a distinction, where the line goes, it was pretty blurry. Even though, as you to claim, you can often sense what method is dominant in any research, I feel that there is almost always occurring elements from the other one as well. Thus it seems fairly rare that a research is purely one or the other.
The "wicked problem" is an interesting one which we also discussed during our seminar. It is a problem that we as engineers can find slightly disturbing since it is hard to get a clear and representative answer from it.
I agree that Haibo's lecture was interesting and gave us all tips and thoughts worth considering when conducting design research. How would you say that you have allocated your time to problem defining vs solving the problem before? I for one hand have certainly not followed Haibo's recommendation. But after the lecture I, just like you, got a minor awakening and will from now on lay more weight in problem definition during future design researches.
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Fun that you had the same kind of epiphany as I did when Ilias described case studies. Even though I before the seminar had a somewhat understanding I had a hard time explaining what really determined a case study. But then he dropped the bomb and the pieces fell into place. I now also have a far better understanding of case studies than before the theme!
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I too, like you, had a clouded mind regarding the message Kant wanted to mediate with his Critique for Pure Reason prior to the seminar. But your reasoning shows that a week spent wondering and pondering at the lecture and seminar gave you a better understanding of the texts. That space and time comes inherently to each person does seem obvious and in line with Kant's reasoning. But an interesting thought to debate this with is: imagine an infant child being held in solitude from any outer stimuli, culture or upbringing, would this child still gain the same perception of space and time? Would the child learn to walk (a question we discussed during our seminar) or what skills would s/he develop? Would s/he inherit the same skills as any other child or would it differ due to the complete separation?
Theme 2
I completly agree with you that there has to be a balance in how we view and percieve the world, otherwise it would really be kind of dull and static as you say! And yes, media is truly powerful. Often more so than governments, at least more influential. You have probably seen the clip but I must mention it anyhow. When Hans Rosling visits a Danish news studio and lectures him in how the world works. There he explicitly says that you cannot use media to learn about the world. Not to be blind and trust all that is said by the journalists and news anchors.
Regarding your last sentence, do you mean that a reproduction can serve the same purpose as an original? Would you say that reproductions indifferent substitues that fulfill the same need and feel despite loosing their "aura" as claimed in the texts? Might the aura only be lost to those who are truly educated and versed in art?
Theme 3
Hello there! We too discussed the correlation between theory and hypothesis during our seminar and as you say there is not any consensus of what theory. That lack of consensus became pretty clear during our seminar since we had different interpretations and understandings of the concept. My standpoint aligns with the arguments you present here. Nevertheless, I do not agree with or fully comprehend what you mean that "it might not be relevant to get an overview of the concept Theory." Did you feel that this theme was excessive and unnecessary or just that the determination of what theory is hard to make? That it might be sufficient to have heard of the concept of theory but not to understand it to the core, due to the lack of consensus?Theme 4
Hello there!Overall, insightful reflections about this week’s theme!
First off, I have to concur that quantitative methods did not turn out to be as easily defined or determined as initially believed. I too had a feeling beforehand what was which but when actually trying to make a distinction, where the line goes, it was pretty blurry. Even though, as you to claim, you can often sense what method is dominant in any research, I feel that there is almost always occurring elements from the other one as well. Thus it seems fairly rare that a research is purely one or the other.
The "wicked problem" is an interesting one which we also discussed during our seminar. It is a problem that we as engineers can find slightly disturbing since it is hard to get a clear and representative answer from it.
Theme 5
Hi there!I agree that Haibo's lecture was interesting and gave us all tips and thoughts worth considering when conducting design research. How would you say that you have allocated your time to problem defining vs solving the problem before? I for one hand have certainly not followed Haibo's recommendation. But after the lecture I, just like you, got a minor awakening and will from now on lay more weight in problem definition during future design researches.
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Theme 6
Overall, I feel quite the same as you regarding this theme. We too began discussing qualitative methods in the papers we read and tried to reach common ground on what defined qualitative methods. Turned out to be near impossible without comparing to quantitative methods. I therefore agree with you that these two should without doubt be treated in the same theme and not split up.Fun that you had the same kind of epiphany as I did when Ilias described case studies. Even though I before the seminar had a somewhat understanding I had a hard time explaining what really determined a case study. But then he dropped the bomb and the pieces fell into place. I now also have a far better understanding of case studies than before the theme!
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