Theme 5 Reflection

So the final reflection on the final day of reflection. I think I will evaluate this course in this reflection and not just reflect on the past week. It’s been an interesting course and I’ve gained a lot of insights in how it is to conduct research. I believe my favourite parts of the course have been the introduction to epistemology, the Theory-section and Haibo Li’s lecture but also the seminars and the discussion they’ve brought along.  

The things I liked with Haibo was first that he accidently mistook Rowan Atkinson for Mr.Bean but also that he presented a way of thinking of how we could adopt our ideas and realize them and also how we can define them and single out the good ones from the bad. In fact I’ve already come up with an idea that I want to execute in the future based on my bachelor thesis thanks to Haibo. I also really liked Haibo’s teaching about “how to define a problem” instead of how to solve a problem. This was really good and a little bit thought provoking because we haven’t been taught to think this way at KTH, the main teaching has always been that of solving the problem not defining it.  Maybe this is hard to introduce in courses like mathematics but I think that this more philosophical approach actually could increase the student’s knowledge of the area of study, for example in maths. 

The seminar was also interesting and we got to educate us a bit on design-research. I think that what I most enjoyed during the seminar was that of what Stefan very briefly told us about called “Design science research” (?). This because it was a reaction to the somewhat loose guidelines for how to conduct design research and how to evaluate a prototype and bring forward knowledge for the common good.

Another pro with this course is that it has also been good to actually force oneself to write and talk in English. It feels like a good idea to have this kind of course in English because it enable us to improve our reading and writing skills in another language.

If I had to say something about the cons I personally have to say that I’m a bit disappointed with the group work. Because I don’t actually see the benefits of working in a group with so loosely defined guidelines. If it should have been purely creative work then I see the point if not, then I don’t see it. I do want to clearify though that I believe my group did a fantastic work.

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