DSR Questions

Tasks of the Doctoral Course

As part of the doctoral course conducted in March and April 2022, participants worked in pairs to address and answer the following five questions:

• Question 1: What is an artifact & design knowledge, and what forms can it take?
• Question 2: Which DSR approach models exist and what distinguishes them?
• Question 3: What is a Kernel Theory?
• Question 4: What are the three cycles of DSR and what does “rigor” mean?
• Question 5: Which philosophical currents underlie Design Science Research and how do social research methods integrate into the design process?

The answers follow on the next pages and offer an opportunity for an interactive exchange of what has been learned.