Stories from third space — A case and considerations of design research education from a Swedish vantage point

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ID12712935
AuthorsMaria Hellström Reimer (0000-0002-7776-3431, Malmö University, corresponding author), Ramia Maze (0000-0002-6310-7767, University of the Arts London)
Year2023
Volume23
Issue1
Pages23-45
Publication date2023-09-12
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueArts and Humanities in Higher Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1474-0222 • E-ISSN: 1741-265X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/14740222231200183
OpenAlexW4386638265
LanguageEN
References cited27

Debates continue about the positioning of design within research-driven universities. While the idea of autonomy has had a strong appeal, it is the bridging across established academic cultures that has proved especially effective for legitimizing design research and research education. Revisiting a conception of design as a ‘Third Space’ and drawing on a case – the Swedish Faculty for Design Research and Research Education (2008–2015) – we discuss what ‘thirdness’ can entail in context. Our account of this case reveals the unsettled dynamics of navigating in, between and across academic cultures. Design research education, we argue, has prospects to cultivate a critical space within academia, in which its ‘thirdness’ entails sensitization and agitation of the territorial conditions of knowledge. There is a need for a reconsideration of design – and academia more generally – not as a static disciplinary order but as a contested archipelago that opens for alternative orientations

Appeal · Autonomy · Context (archaeology · Design education · Discipline · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Pedagogy · Political science · Research design · Social science · Sociology · Artistic and Creative Research · Computer Science · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Engineering · Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration

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