Hello list members,
I am working on my PhD, and I am struggling a little with the normative
nature of my research. I am therefore looking for some references.
My research explores an alternative approach to the design of building.
(This alternative approach requires the support of a set of software tools
that I am in the process of developing. The research will use the tools
developed to demonstrate how this alternative approach will work, and will
argue that this approach may, in certain situations, have certain advantages
over other approaches.) The research is therefore normative in the sense
that it proposes an alternative design procedure for tomorrow's designers,
rather than focusing on what today's designers do and how they do it. My
question to you is, what key references should I be looking at concerning
normative research and normative methodological positions?
Patrick
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Patrick Janssen
Design Technology Research Centre,
School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
tel: (852) 2766 4924 fax: (852) 2774 5067
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