Wanderland: Exploring Experimentation in Design Theory to Find New Ways of Working, Understanding and Interpreting Process and Outcomes

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dc.contributor.advisorGabriele, Sandra
dc.creatorFan, Michael Andrew Kar-Ho
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-31T15:03:00Z
dc.date.available2014-07-31T15:03:00Z
dc.date.copyright2014-04-24
dc.date.issued2014-07-28
dc.date.updated2014-07-28T16:17:51Z
dc.degree.disciplineDesign
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMDes - Master of Design
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines experimentation in graphic design to understand how a designer might uncover new ways of working apart from the conventional solution-based approach in professional practice. Particular attention is focused on alternative design experimentation. The thesis opens up a debate about the relationship of process and professionalism in design practice. In contemporary practice, designers learn to embrace the mistakes which occur during the design process. These mistakes or ‘failures’ have guided designers to definite solutions using effective and efficient strategies and techniques, and have also offered spaces for alternative approaches to emerge when a designer emphasizes his own creative purposes. The paper proposes failure and an adaptation of ideas by feminist researcher and queer theorist Judith Halberstam, for designers to consider as a new approach to creative design that provides not only a new methodology, but also a new way of understanding how experimentation works.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/27693
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectDesignen_US
dc.subjectFine artsen_US
dc.subjectGLBT studiesen_US
dc.subject.keywordsMistakesen_US
dc.subject.keywordsGraphic designen_US
dc.subject.keywordsTypographyen_US
dc.subject.keywordsQueer arten_US
dc.subject.keywordsExperimentationen_US
dc.subject.keywordsHegemonyen_US
dc.subject.keywordsCapitalismen_US
dc.subject.keywordsFailureen_US
dc.subject.keywordsDesigneren_US
dc.subject.keywordsEducationen_US
dc.subject.keywordsProfessionalismen_US
dc.subject.keywordsProcessen_US
dc.subject.keywordsCreativityen_US
dc.subject.keywordsAlternativeen_US
dc.titleWanderland: Exploring Experimentation in Design Theory to Find New Ways of Working, Understanding and Interpreting Process and Outcomesen_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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