Dear Geoff,
I feel your suggestion results in increased confusion to the fierld of design research by increasing the confusion at the fields' boundaries unnecessarily. Currently, most of what designers do when they research is undertake datagthering in acalssic manner (for which there are already well established terms such as 'engineering research' and 'social research'). If you can demonstrate forms of research that do not lie in these or other well established classic domains I would like to hear of them. I suspect that they are so few that the proposal to use the term 'design research' to cover these 'acts of research that designers do through designing' is simply to introduce unnecessary terminological and conceptual duplication in a field that already has too many problems of these sorts of loose thinking.
Best regards,
Terry
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