CoP What is research?

Research is not just looking up something and producing a essay. there are other ways of research for example visual research.

Understanding how to connect both written and visual to get something out of both.

There is a method of thinking in order to research and creating a creative practice for example, we first have the theory of what we need to do, then we practice and reflect on what we have found and understood, then we develop on them and produce something better and we repeat this process.

As a creative artist we take ideas and develop them, make them into something really good and try to improve it, you can make a quick list of how to go about this:

-Synthesis which is the idea we want to develop

-Analysis grouping the ideas and thinking about how they work.

-Applying taking the ideas that re refined and producing something out of it.

-Comprehension seeing whether you can make changes.

-Knowledge you understand what your doing and are able to change things if they look wrong.

-Evaluation understanding that you need to evaluate how you can do better.

and this goes on a cycle, which is a good way to develop a creative practice.

"process is more important then the outcome" Bruce Mau, focus on the process which helps with finding out things gives you an understanding and different "answer" rather then sticking to the perfect outcome you can learn something new from a mistake.

"knowledge comes from failing and reading"

If we knew what we were doing it would not be called research, without the ideas we cant do much for our projects, we all have our own understanding. we always come up with new ways of understanding/ developing the ideas.

Stimulated approach
Going out and finding relative content, relates to the problem of trying to form something new.

The more we look for references the more ideas we generate, and this will help with future experience/ approach to new ideas, but this can have its downs because your original idea will soon be an influence of many, but its still yours.

"what is research"
Is it not finding facts we know and then proving that it works with our research, research is about defining things by asking:

"How? "
"Why?"
"What if?"

these help with not only defining an idea but ask for reasons which can develop the idea more.

Types of research

-Primary research, research which we go and research, by generating new ideas/data.
-Secondary research, We collect data which already been made which we use to analyse for our projects

-Quantitative research, Data which are facts, figures and measurements that's been collected to be analyze.
-Qualitative research, observing/studding people and collecting what you've seen without data.

What is information?
Adding knowledge to some one will now have more knowledge about it. Data that has been processed to have a meaning.

How we research?
There are methodologies that allow us to think about the ways to research, using all the types of research.

put we should not limit our self's from the possibilities that could come from the research. Feed back is a form of research, we are the center of research.