This paper approaches the debate about new perspectives on possible ways to re-shape Ph.D. programmes in design that may consider complexity as a context for design research. To guide and develop this vision an approach is proposed focusing on the dynamics of learning occurring through the experience of design research and through the transformation of that experience and practice within the Ph.D. programme in Industrial Design at Politecnico di Milano. It will be assumed as well that, according to the above premises, industrial design may join those disciplines of change capable to get over the rigid disciplinary borders, outlining the profiles of Ph.D. researchers and scholars open to react to the stimula of heterogeneous disciplinary fields, so to activate a transdisciplinary circulation of concepts. While trying a conceptual framework for this reflection, an attempt is made to stress the relevance of the Ph.D. programmes in industrial design as research strategic sites, where efforts are concentrated to produce collective learning and knowledge construction.

Doctoral research as a learning hub - Perspectives from a PhD programme in progress

PIZZOCARO, SILVIA LUISA
2003-01-01

Abstract

This paper approaches the debate about new perspectives on possible ways to re-shape Ph.D. programmes in design that may consider complexity as a context for design research. To guide and develop this vision an approach is proposed focusing on the dynamics of learning occurring through the experience of design research and through the transformation of that experience and practice within the Ph.D. programme in Industrial Design at Politecnico di Milano. It will be assumed as well that, according to the above premises, industrial design may join those disciplines of change capable to get over the rigid disciplinary borders, outlining the profiles of Ph.D. researchers and scholars open to react to the stimula of heterogeneous disciplinary fields, so to activate a transdisciplinary circulation of concepts. While trying a conceptual framework for this reflection, an attempt is made to stress the relevance of the Ph.D. programmes in industrial design as research strategic sites, where efforts are concentrated to produce collective learning and knowledge construction.
2003
9784998077626
Doctoral education in design; Doctoral curricula in design
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