A good record? The use of video in practice-led design research.

Over the last eight years, the duration of my ongoing practice-led design research project, video recording has developed from an expensive luxury to being ubiquitous. Whilst this opens up many opportunities for documenting and disseminating research projects, there are also potential drawbacks. I am a multimedia designer who makes extensive use of video both as an observational tool and as a means of helping covey tacit / experiential knowledge in creative practices. In this paper I will discuss the use of video for such purposes, drawing on my own experiences and the research of others who use video in design research.