%0 Journal Article
%T Doctorateness in Design Disciplines. Negotiating Connoisseurship and Criticism in Practice-related Fields Doctorateness in Design Disciplines. Negotiating Connoisseurship and Criticism in Practice-related Fields
%A Fredrik Nilsson
%A Halina Dunin-Woyseth
%J FORMakademisk
%D 2013
%I Formakademisk, Oslo
%X Discussions on the concept of ¡®doctorateness¡¯ have been growing during last years in traditional academic disciplines as well as in creative fields. This paper is a brief report from the first stage of a research project which studies how the concept of ¡®doctorateness¡¯ could be considered in the field of architecture, design and arts. The project builds upon a series of doctoral courses for architects and designers, and includes the study and evaluation of already accepted doctoral theses. In analyses of assessment assignments, the ¡®connoisseurship model¡¯ of Elliot W. Eisner was found to be useful. Eisner¡¯s model of Connoisseurship & Criticism has served as the main tool for the analyses of empirical data, and as a framework for developing the concept of ¡®doctorateness¡¯ further. From the first phase of studies in the research project, the importance of particular kinds of awareness can be stressed as crucial for ¡®doctorateness¡¯, and here the model of connoisseurship and criticism has been operative. A more elaborate definition of ¡®doctorateness¡¯ is presumed to be of use as a pedagogical tool in research education in design fields as well as in dialogues between professionals of design practice and research. Discussions on the concept of ¡®doctorateness¡¯ have been growing during last years in traditional academic disciplines as well as in creative fields. This paper is a brief report from the first stage of a research project which studies how the concept of ¡®doctorateness¡¯ could be considered in the field of architecture, design and arts. The project builds upon a series of doctoral courses for architects and designers, and includes the study and evaluation of already accepted doctoral theses. In analyses of assessment assignments, the ¡®connoisseurship model¡¯ of Elliot W. Eisner was found to be useful. Eisner¡¯s model of Connoisseurship & Criticism has served as the main tool for the analyses of empirical data, and as a framework for developing the concept of ¡®doctorateness¡¯ further. From the first phase of studies in the research project, the importance of particular kinds of awareness can be stressed as crucial for ¡®doctorateness¡¯, and here the model of connoisseurship and criticism has been operative. A more elaborate definition of ¡®doctorateness¡¯ is presumed to be of use as a pedagogical tool in research education in design fields as well as in dialogues between professionals of design practice and research.
%K doctorateness
%K connoisseurship & criticism
%K design practice and research
%K making disciplines
%U https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/formakademisk/article/view/499