> Sometimes I wonder if,
I have a lot of sympathy with Chris's musing - they along the same lines
as mine.
> (1) Is there an appropriate arena for design research? What wells of knowledge
> might educated designers honourably and helpfully plumb?
This is a really good question. I particularly like the "educated
designers" component because it implies an activity that requires
designers to be doing it. However, I'm currently asking myself whether
the focus on "knowledge" is a problem. Are designers in the business of
creating knowledge? Designers may create knowledge through designing,
but if we just took this and threw away the rest I think we would be
somehow throwing a lot, and perhaps the most important bits, away.
Shouldn't one kind of design research that "educated designers" might
plumb be concerned with envisioning possible future realities.
Well, I'd like to be able to justify my beliefs but I'm not going to try
to here - I'm still working on it. At present, the feelings expressed
above amount to nothing more than something feels wrong. I'll read
Clive's paper to see whether this makes me feel differently.
Steve
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