PhD Spring School 2024
Event
Seminar
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Date
22 - 23 May 2024
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Organiser
PolyU Design
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Time
09:30 - 17:30
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Venue
V1101, 11/F, Block V, PolyU Map
Speaker
Prof. Louise McWhinnie
Prof. Kees Dorst
Enquiry
PolyU Design 2766 6305 sd.phd@polyu.edu.hk
Summary
Programme
PolyU Design will host its annual PhD Spring School on May 22 and May 23. Entitled 'Research-Alignment-Design' the keynote addresses for 2024 will be delivered by Professors Louise McWhinnie (UTS) and Kees Dorst (UTS). The forum facilitates the exchange of insights and deliberates on complex and inter-disciplinary research subjects from both local and international experts.
Event conveners: Dr Ir Gerhard Bruyns (PolyU Design) and Dr Jae Oh (PolyU Design).
Registration
Prior registration is required. Please register on or before May 14.
All PolyU PhD students and SD faculty are welcome.
Keynote Speaker
Prof. Louise McWhinnie
Louise McWhinnie is an Emeritus Professor, Adjunct Professor and designer, and was the inaugural Dean of the Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology Sydney. Louise has lived and worked in three continents (Europe, Asia and Australia), with her research conducted predominantly within a fourth (North America). Louise was one of a small core team of academics who conceived, designed and launched Australia's first undergraduate transdisciplinary programme. This expanded into what is now known as TD School, with its significant integration of industry, academics and students in the addressing of wicked, complex and connected problems beyond the boundaries of singular disciplines. This has resulted in numerous awards. Louise has additionally undertaken radio and TV interviews, delivered keynotes and undertaken university programme accreditation and doctoral examination across numerous countries and continents.
Keynote title: Design and transdisciplinarity
Within an era of immense and accelerating change, the challenges we as a world face, have changed. Wicked problems and their interconnected nature mean that multiple problem spaces can no longer be defined by, or contained within the boundaries of singular disciplines. Thus, transdisciplinarity requires that we generate new methodologically collaborative approaches, producing outcomes that historically singular disciplines alone, could not. Through examples of wicked problems, this presentation considers how complexity and uncertainty presents new challenges and opportunities for design and design research.
Prof. Kees Dorst
Kees Dorst is Professor of Transdisciplinary Innovation at the University of Technology Sydney's TD School. He is considered one of the lead thinkers developing the field of design, valued for his ability to connect a philosophical understanding of the logic of design with hands-on practice. As a bridge-builder between these two worlds, his writings on design as a way of thinking are read by both practitioners and academics. He has written several bestselling books in the field – 'Understanding Design’ (2003, 2006), 'Design Expertise' (with Bryan Lawson, 2013), 'Frame Innovation' (2015) 'Designing for the Common Good' (2016) and 'Notes on Design – How Creative Practice Works' (2017). Over the years his focus has developed to the use of designerly ways of thinking outside the traditional design domains – in particular as applied to the 'wicked' problems of the new networked society. He has developed a set of methodologies to support these processes, experimenting with them in practice through the research centres and degree programmes he founded.
Keynote title: ‘Finally Together’ Integrating Design and Research
In order to deal with the big challenges of today, Design and Research will have to come together in new ways. In this talk we will see how pioneering practitioners manage to integrate the two, and use theories & models to understand what this means for the future of both design and research.
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