Terry said:
>>I believe that this was coined by Christopher Frayling (please confirm or correct me anyone!) <<
In the past I have been chastised for ascribing this idea to Bruce Archer, and Christopher Frayling's secretary was kind enough to
send me a copy of the RCA publication which appears to be the first printed rendering of the idea.
But I have always suspected that Bruce Archer was the real organ grinder in this instance. He wrote an extensive account of ideas
about research in Co-Design in the early 1990's, built around the "Into, For, and Through" principle, and did not mention his old
boss, Christopher Frayling.
So I was very pleased to find some hard evidence in this paper by Owain Pedgely and his PhD supervisors:
Norman, E.W.L. Heath, R. J. Pedgley, O. F. (undated) "The framing of a practice-based Ph.D. in design" Core 77 Research Web pages
(http://www.core77.com/research/thesisresearch.html accessed May 2004)
They said:
"Bruce Archer first coined his phrase "...research about design [and designing], research through design [and designing] and
research for the purposes of design [and designing]" in the late 1970s during his post at the Royal College of Art in London [1]."
and their source was:
1. ARCHER B. (1999), personal communication via Professor P H Roberts
(I believe Professor Roberts is a colleague of the authors)
Apart from that I completely disagree with Terry (which won't surprise him) but I'm happy to leave it to Wolfgang Jonas to make
the case.
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