Using Corpus Linguistics to Analyse how Design Research Frames ‘Design Thinking’

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference proceedingpeer-review

    132 Downloads (Pure)

    Abstract

    Academic research communities create knowledge which helps them to claim authority over their investigative domain. The knowledge is not necessary objectively true—often it is skewed to help communities to claim legitimacy. This paper investigates how the design research community frames ‘Design Thinking’, a key concept in design research. Existing literature identifies skewed methods which the community uses when framing Design Thinking. The literature suggests that creating an artificial separation between the ways that designers and scientists think helps the community to claim knowledge on Design Thinking. To further investigate how the community creates knowledge, this paper subjects abstracts from peer-reviewed journal papers which focus on Design Thinking to empirical analysis using Corpus Linguistics methods. The study suggests that use of ‘nominals’ and the creation of ‘meta-knowledge’ helps researchers to claim authority on Design Thinking. These practices appear however to perpetuate an artificial separation between Design Thinking and other design domains.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationAcademy for Design Innovation Management Conference
    Publisher Academy for Design Innovation Management
    Pages788-801
    Number of pages14
    Volume2
    Edition1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 4 Nov 2019
    EventThe Academy for Design Innovation Management 2019 - London, United Kingdom
    Duration: 18 Jun 201921 Jun 2019

    Publication series

    Name
    ISSN (Electronic)2632-0045

    Conference

    ConferenceThe Academy for Design Innovation Management 2019
    Abbreviated titleADIM2019
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    CityLondon
    Period18/06/1921/06/19

    Bibliographical note

    This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-
    NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

    Keywords

    • Design Thinking
    • Corpus Linguistics
    • Ways of Speaking
    • Discourse Communities
    • Discourse

    Fingerprint

    Dive into the research topics of 'Using Corpus Linguistics to Analyse how Design Research Frames ‘Design Thinking’'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

    Cite this