THEME 5 - Afterreflection

(I am writing this post almost a week late, because I have been really sick in both tonsillitis (halsfluss) and otitis (öroninflammation) so I have not been able to write or even think due to the pain. But no I am eating penicillin and am getting better everyday! Now back to school and life!)

So, Theme 5 was Design Research and I read two really interesting papers, which I have reflected up on in my previous blog post. Unfortunately I missed the lectures this week, due to my illness. That is a shame because it would have been interesting to here more from the authors of the papers that we had read, since I found this theme one of the most interesting in the course so far. Design research is a pretty new topic for me, I have never before reflected over the methods that can be used. I understand that it is a pretty wide and important subject, because design is very important for example engineers as us and by having knowledge of different methods of design could facilitate our work.

My lessons from this week’s theme are therefore a bit limited. I wish I had time to catch up by reading some more texts on the subjects. But what I have done is that I have read some of the other students’ blog posts about their reflections about the theme, both after and before. By doing that I have gotten a picture of what the lectures by Ylva and Haibo was about.