Essay(approx. 2500-3000 words) where you critically explore and evaluate the role of design on communication and research. You should carefully read the suggested bibliography (particularly the prescribed texts below) and relate them to the more visual references. Questions you may want to explore are: • What is the role of design in communicating ideas between stakeholders? • In what ways can design be used in research? • What are the emerging methodologies relating research and design – research by design and research though design, for example – and what are their advantages and disadvantages? Your essay should be thoroughly illustrated in a way the images support your point of view. Remember to provide the sources and the references for all images and ideas that are not your own. Specific prescribed texts for essay Carmona, Matthew, Steve Tiesdell, Tim Heath, and Taner Oc. 2010. Public Places – Urban Spaces. Taylor & Francis – Chapter 12 – The Communication Process (Available as a JCU Ebook) Copley, Nicki, Jacky Bowring, and Mick Abbott. 2015. “Thinking Ahead: Design-Directed Research in a City Which Experienced Fifty Years of Sea Level Change Overnight.” Journal of Landscape Architecture 10 (2). Routledge: 70–81. doi:10.1080/18626033.2015.1058577. (Available from JCU Library: https://goo.gl/euQ7cT) Lenzholzer, Sanda, Ingrid Duchhart, and Adri van den Brink. 2017. “Chapter 4: The Relationship between Research and Design.” In Research in Landscape Architecture: Methods and Methodology, edited by Adri van den Brink, Diedrich Bruns, Hilde Tobi, and Simon Bell, 54–64. New York, NY, USA: Routledge. (Available at JCU Library – 712.072 RES) Lynch, K. (1960). The Image of
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