STEDEX '09

RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS

In conclusion, the faculty believes that a design school or faculty in Malaysia has an untapped avenue to publish citation-indexed articles in reputable arts and humanities indexes to support a research university. Our faculty has identified two factors to promote this opportunity. They are ensuring the production of design artifacts receive recognition in the university’s annual academic performance appraisal process and ensuring the qualification of visual and audio artifacts as citation-indexed articles. We proposed utilising learning outputs from the design studios that are evaluated at studio, departmental and faculty level by independent reviewers. A cataloguing method is recommended as per any regular exhibitions held by public or private organsations. It is anticipated that the accumulated selected works of arts and design would one day become a valuable collection and referral about our tropical civilisation. Hence, more concerted efforts must be done by all design schools or faculties to facilitate this opportunity. Perhaps a similar international concerted effort could be done to place design schools or faculties at par with their colleagues in the sciences and social sciences schools or faculties.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We wish to thank the staff of the Office of the Deputy Dean of Research, Postgraduate and Internationalisation for their efforts in this study: Abdul Rahim Utar, Nurul Huda Mohd Zaman, Wan Faridah Wan Ahmad, Norsyida Mansor, Noor Baizura Abdul Rahim and Shafizan Sidek Mohamad.

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