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>Are designers in the business of creating knowledge?...........Shouldn't one
>kind of design research that educated designers" might plumb be concerned with
>envisioning possible future realities.
1. "Envisioning" sounds to me like producing a form of knowledge.
2. The knowledge produced sounds more like a "hypothesis" than a "proof" and I
feel that designers are better at asking such questions than in providing
definitive answers. Part of my purpose in my previous message was to suggest
that we undervalue the question and the struggle to form it and this was one of
the ways in which designers can play a part in research.
As an example, I know a designer working with clinical specialists in a field
of medicine where they believe there is potential to provide new therapy for a
difficult problem which affects a lot of people. Problem is, their aim is to
identify (and test) promising techniques from some general principles - a
substantial creative task - and the research establishment wants bids for
testing well-defined discrete techniques.
best wishes from Sheffield
Chris Rust
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Professor Chris Rust
Art and Design Research Centre
Sheffield Hallam University UK
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