Department of Design Research Seminarv. 0.1 – autumn 2016

Practicalities – 1/2Learning outcomes for doctoral students

• Good practice in academic discussion; good skills in presenting one's research topic and contributing to fellow researchers' ongoing work; good skills and practices in academic discourse and argumentation. Knowledge of topical discussions in design research.

• Doctoral students required to present and serve as a discussant once

Links• MyCourses: https://

mycourses.aalto.fi/course/view.php?id=14627• Oodi: https://oodi.aalto.fi/a/opintjakstied.jsp?

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Practicalities – 2/2Schedule, autumn term (NB! All session are 3:00pm-5:00pm @ room 6087, unless otherwise mentioned)

14 September28 September19 October2 November16 November (room 885)14 December

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Process description

Paper uploaded 1 week prior to the presentation

• Work-in-progress papers, R&R, maybe even rejected papers as well as idea papers?

Approx. 60 minutes for each presentation, incl. Q&A

• This is the usual format, but PechaKucha, for example, also considered

Mechanisms supporting publication after the presentation?

• Not sure if needed, but would be nice to support the process even after the presentation

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Presentation format + atmosphere• Each presenter is allocated 60 minutes

• 30 minutes presentation + 30 minutes Q&A• Up to the presenter to use the time as they see fit

• Open, encouraging, positive atmosphere• Anyone can join the presentations• “How can we improve the paper?” not “What is wrong in the paper?”• Multiple perspectives (‘disciplinary voices’) enable us to gain additional depth into

our papers

• DoD research seminar as a living organism • evolves according to the community’s needs + we experiment with best

practices identified inside and outside Aalto University

• Ideas for improving the seminar concept• -> miikka.j.lehtonen@aalto.fi

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