what is research? lecture

• research isn't just in COP its a fundamental part of PPP and studio practice
• this idea of experiential learning is fundamental to research, you become better at doing things by going out and experiencing things and practicing activities
• research is about knowledge analysis understanding and comprehension, bringing everything you've learned together into a unified whole
• 'process is more important than outcome' when the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we've already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where were going, but we will know we want to be there - an incomplete manifesto for growth
• research isn't just about clarifying the world, its about problem solving and problem solving is a part of research
• 'success comes from having brighter ideas closer together' - the secret to success 
• you have to get things wrong is essential to developing a practice, making mistakes and learning from those mistakes - don't be afraid to get it wrong. fail quicker and you'll have more time to improve
• if we knew what it was we were doing, it would bot be called research, would it? - Einstein
• stupid people don't ask questions, intelligent people research
• ideas are the currency of what we do
• we all experience similar things but the way we make connections between things shows our own unique view of the world, research is looking at things that are already there but thinking about it in ways that no one else has thought about it before 
• there is a conscious or subconscious search for inspiration
• intuitive approach - the development of thought process, primarily based on internalised perceptions and knowledge. this thought process may occur spontaneously
• stimulated, intuitive and systematic approach
• what is research? research is something we have to take an undergraduate view of. research is the process of finding facts, its about collection information, source materials. research is finding out by asking the questions how, why, what if?
• types of research:
  primary research - developed and collected for a specific end use, usually generated to help solve a specific problem.
  secondary research - deals with facts, figure and measurements produces data which can be analysed.
  quantitative research - numerical data, provable fact, the gathering and analysing of measurable data, its objective and relies on statistical analysis.
  qualitative data - a way to study people or systems by interacting with and observing the subjects regularly. research that is involved in quality, it can describe events people ect without the use of numerical data.
• what is information? information is the result of processing, manipulating and organising data, its about creating meaning and thinking about strategic ways of taking that data so that it can be communicated effectively. information should be sufficient, competency, relevant, and useful
• phase 1 assimilation, the accumulation and ordering of general information specifically related to the problem in hand
  phase 2 general study
  phase 3 development, the development and refinement of one or more tentative solutions
  phase 4 communication, the communication of one or more solutions to people either inside or outside the design team