Ways to a Study Proposal

1. Ways to aStudy Proposal Prof.dr.ir. Taeke M. de Jong

2. Classical empirical research proposals • problem statement (problem isolation) • clear aim • reference • starting points • hypothesis • variables • data • method • content • publish

3. Design related study • can not isolate problems from a coherent field of problems • brings aims together in a field of aims, a concept • has many references, not only written text but especially images: forms, types, models, concepts, programmes • has many starting points • has designs as hypothesis stating: “This will work” • has many context variables (“parameters”) • while the object still varies in your head • has many ways to study (in a book with 10 000 key words) • content grows drawing, calculating and writing • publishes with the medium as a message

4. Design related study orempirical research • Research produces probabilities by causes • Design produces possibilities by conditions

5. Ways to Study and Researchurban, architectural and technical design • CONTENTS • Introduction • Naming and describing • Design research andtypology • Evaluating • Modelling • Programming and optimising • Technical Study • Design Study • Study by design • Epilogue Empirical research Studybydesign

6. Ideal contents of adesign relatedStudy Proposal 1. OBJECT OF STUDY AND ITS CONTEXT 2. MY STUDY PROPOSAL 3. ACCOUNTS

7. 1 OBJECT OF MY STUDY AND ITS CONTEXT 1.1. Object of my study 1.2. Probable future context: field of problems 1.3. Desired impacts of my study: field of aims 1.4. My designerly references: field of means 1.5. My portfolio and perspective: field of abilities

8. 2 MY STUDY PROPOSAL 2.1. Location and|or other future context factors 2.2. Motivation and|or programme of requirements 2.3. Intended results, contributions and planning

9. 3 ACCOUNTS 3.1. Meeting criteria for a study proposal 3.2. References 3.3. Key words

10. Criteria for a study proposal A.Affinity with designing B.University latitude C.Concept formation and transferability D.Retrievability and accumulating capacity E.Methodical accountability and depth F.Ability to be criticised and to criticise G.Convergence and limitations

11. 1 OBJECT OF MY STUDY AND ITS CONTEXT 1.1. Object of my study: frame and grain 1.2. Probable future context: field of problems 1.3. Desired impacts of my study: field of aims 1.4. My designerly references: field of means 1.5. My portfolio and perspective: field of abilities

12. Context sensitivity of our design object Preface by Rector Fokkema Within the range of a technical university the object of design – in terms of (urban) architecture and technique – is the design subject that is amongst all others most sensitive to context. The programme of requirements is not only derived from an economical and technical context, but also from contexts hailing from political, cultural, ecological en spatial considerations; on many levels of scale.

13. How tohandlecontext

14. Explicit future context • protects your study against judgements with other suppositions about the future context • raises the debate about the robustness of your study in different future contexts • makes your study comparable to other studies in comparable contexts • raises a ‘field of problems’ instead of an isolated ‘problem statement’ by subtracting desirable futures from the probable ones

15. Explicit impacts within that context • indicate actors and specialists to join the team or take into account • imply a societal and personal relevance or fascination • imply a field of aims • imply actors willing to finance your study • could produce a programme of requirements • before you have a precise study proposal !

16. Subtracting futures • Field of problems = Probable - Desirable • Field of Aims = Desirable - Probable

17. Limit your object of study by scale http://team.bk.tudelft.nl> Publications 2004

18. Grain and impacts of your study http://team.bk.tudelft.nl> Publications 2004

19. Desired impacts of your study http://team.bk.tudelft.nl> Publications 2004

20. How to judge these impacts without future context? http://team.bk.tudelft.nl> Publications 2004

21. Changing context changes impacts http://team.bk.tudelft.nl> Publications 2004

22. Subtracting futures • Field of problems = Probable - Desirable • Field of Aims = Desirable - Probable

23. 2 MY STUDY PROPOSAL 2.1. Location and|or other future context factors 2.2. Motivation and|or programme of requirements 2.3. Intended results, contributions and planning

24. Field of problems and aims • Problems: probable, but not desirable futures • Aims: desirable, but not probable futures

25. How to limitate, concentrate • give way to fascinations (motivated concentrations) • choose a scale (frame and grain) before an object • publish your portfolio evaluating it as field of abilities • decide to improve or to extend them in your proposal • publish images that fascinate you as a field of means • look at them as a professional: which concepts, types, models programmes could you harvest? • make your assumptions about the future explicit • imagine the impacts your study could have • cash your dreams

26. 3 ACCOUNTS 3.1. Meeting criteria for a study proposal 3.2. References 3.3. Key words