Chris
"Chris RUST(SCS)" wrote:
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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.
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> 1. "Envisioning" sounds to me like producing a form of knowledge.
Is it? This is what I am questioning. My view is that it doesn't matter
if it isn't, because it has a value (what you discuss may be part of
that value).
> 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.
I agree that it might be conceived as hypothesising or postulating, but
I don't think this could be called knowledge.
> 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.
Sounds an interesting distinction but I'm not quite sure what you mean.
Steve
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