At 23/05/2000, you wrote:
In a message dated 05/23/2000 12:57:05 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
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<< Of course, a PhD might be awarded to someone who does some designing
during their PhD research, and uses this designing, or some aspect of
it, as research material: the design researcher studies designing by
studying themselves doing some designing. Though not for a PhD, I have
recently done something like this; I did some designing as an
experiment to try to test a theory of designing. But, doing this still
requires all the setting up and generalizing that Ken has argued are
necessary and normal aspects of any Phd degree. The design researcher
cannot just present the designing, and expect any principle that might
be recovered from the exercise just to emerge or become evident to
anyone who looks at the designing. >>
The sort of design now being undertaken in California and some other
places in the US does, I think, involve research, of the classical sort. So a
Phd
involving design research related to design practice would be possible. The
processes of design and research advance together as part of one larger
process. Maybe we could call the combined activity " Desearch" rather than
say design and research are the same thing.
Rob Curedale
Senior Producer
frogdesign Silicon Valley
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