ARTIFACT
Capstone Proposal
Level: Graduate/ ESL intermediate to advanced

Language Focus: Research strategies, literature review, theses structure and reverse outline

Design Focus: Research critical analysis: deductive, inductive, abductive

Time: 4 classes of 2h 40 min. (each class 2h 15min activities + 25min. break/debrief)

Prep time: 2 hours

Lesson Description:

In this lesson, graduate students develop ideas to design an artifact inspired in research findings. The teacher introduces deductive, inductive and abductive reasoning as a research methodology for students to develop concepts. Students practice strategies to cross-reference sources in order to write an annotated bibliography and literature review that will serve as the foundation for capstone proposal writing, including rationale, abstract, and reverse outline.

Rationale, Visual Analysis,
Connor Lucas, Silk Scarf, Spring 2017

Artifact: Louis-Inspired Chairs (Silk Scarf)
Connor Lucas, Spring 2017
Preliminary Research

Artifact: “Landscapes” photo series
Justin Kinard, Spring 2016

FOR TEACHER:

Readings:

• Abduction: The Logic of Discovery of Grounded Theory, Jo Reichertz (Chapter 4: 4.3 Abduction, Induction, Deduction in Qualitative Research)
• Designerly Ways of Knowing, Nigel Cross (Chapter 2: Creative Cognition in Design I: The Creative Leap, page 43-61)
• Doing your Research Project, Judith Bell
• Evocative Objects: things we think with…, Sherry Turkle
• Objects of desire: design and society since 1750, Adrian Forty and Ian Cameron 

• The Nature and Nurture of Design Ability, Nigel Cross

Visual Aids:

• Art, Artifact, and Photographs
• Light a New Way
• Urban Prototyping Bootcamp, Cities in Learning: Brainstorming Prototypes

TED playlist:

• Designing objects that tell stories, Yves Behar

FOR STUDENTS:

 Class 1

Readings: 

• Abduction: The Logic of Discovery of Grounded Theory,
  Jo Reichertz (excerpt) 
• Doing your Research Project, Judith Bell (Part I: Preparing the Ground, Chapter 5: Literature Searching, page 82-102)
• Peirce and the autonomy of abductive reasoning, Tomis Kapitan

• The Sage handbook of qualitative data analysis, Jo Reichertz (Chapter 9: Induction, Deduction, Abduction, page 123-133)

Handouts:

• Deductive, Inductive, Abductive Reasoning Tip Sheet
• Annotated Bibliography & Literature Review

Worksheets:

• Annotated Bibliography & cross-referencing sources
• Literature Review Synthesis Matrix

Class 2

Readings:

• Doing your Research Project, Judith Bell (Part I: The Review of the Literature, Chapter 6: Literature Searching, page 103-114)
• Evocative Objects: things we think with… Sherry Turkle (pages 56-61, 112-117) 
• Interpreting Objects and Collections, Susan M. Pearce (Chapter 4: Objects as Meaning; or Narrating the Past, pages 19-29; Chapter 6: Behavioural Interaction with Objects; Chapter 30: Objects of Desire)
• Practising photography: an archive, a study, some photographs and a researcher, Gillian Rose

Handouts:

• Reverse Outline

Worksheets:

• Abstract

Class 3

Readings:

• Affordances and Design, Victor Kaptelinin
• Artifacts as Social Agents, Philip Brey 
• Doing your Research Project, Judith Bell (PART II Selecting methods of data collection, Chapter 7: The analysis of documentary evidence, page 124-139)

Worksheets:

• Rationale
• Capstone Proposal

Resources:

Parsons Healthy Materials Lab 

Material ConneXion

Class 4

Readings:

• Agile Prototyping 
• De-scribing design: Appropriating script analysis to design history, Kjetil Fallan 
• Design for the Real World, Victor Papanek
• Do good: How designers can change the world, David B.Berman
• The Myth of the Elevator Pitch

Resources:

• Pecha Kucha 20×20