Harmonics: Towards Enlightened Evaluation
- Submitting institution
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Heriot-Watt University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 41905826
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1080/14606925.2017.1352828
- Title of journal
- Design Journal
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- First page
- S3226
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- Sup1
- ISSN
- 1460-6925
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2017.1352828
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This co-authored, refereed output, for which Jaramillo was the principle author, was published in The Design Journal. The paper reports the results from a 12-month research study that was part of a project called Harmonics, which aimed to develop an evaluation framework to understand the impacts of the Creative Futures Partnership, a funded collaboration between the Highlands and Islands Enterprise and The Glasgow School of Art.
This article proposes a new framework - ‘Harmonics’ - which recognises uncertainty in the process of evaluation; this includes several creative methods that can be utilised within the framework of method assemblage (Law 2004). This contributes to cultural evaluation as a collaborative process involving various stakeholders promoting a holistic approach to evaluation to counter the existing positivistic approach to measuring impact and progress.
A partnership project provides the research basis for the article. The year-long research maintained a series of iterative evaluative practices implemented within the partner organisations to capture, understand and reflect upon those partnerships. The primary research includes this as a case study, involving the testing out of creative methods. These include activities such as: ‘Gatherings’, ‘Dailies’, and the quarterly printed ‘Fieldnotes' ‘zine. Secondary research is in the form of a contextual review including key work by Donaldson, 2013 and Sanderson, 2000.
The article’s impact can be seen within the broader region and its use within the two institutions. This new framework allowed the creative artefacts, narratives, and iterative processes to be measured alongside the more quantitative statistics so important in public fund use. Most importantly, this pilot approach was applied in a variety of other project spaces including research projects such as Design Innovation for New Growth, an RSE-funded project Distributed Capabilities, and its application within current teaching at the School of Textiles and Design at Heriot-Watt University.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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