Dear list
Listening in on the reports from Ph.D students, in conjunction with the
news that Washington State University's Doctor of Design program is now
accepting students and that UC Irvine's proposed new design program has
been changed to a proposal for a more modest interdisciplinary
experiment, has resurfaced a question for me concerning the nature of
design knowledge and other forms of knowledge (scientific, ethical
etc.). For example the generation of scientific knowledge (e.g. design
science) seems to be primarily the product of a tectonic process while
design knowledge is a product of an architectonic process (designing of
course requires the integration of both types of knowledge ( in
addition to others)). The question for me is a second order inquiry
into how one produces and/or integrates these two types of knowledge
within formal academic design programs if such programs are not
designed with that intention in mind in the first place. This also
relates to the question of the difference between design scholarship
and other forms of scholarship if any.
Harold
Harold G. Nelson, Ph.D.
President; Advanced Design Institute
www.advanceddesign.org
Past-President; International Society for Systems Science
www.isss.org
Affiliated faculty, Engineering, U. Wash.
new book—The Design Way: http://BooksToRead.com/etp/nelsonad.pdf
The Design Way has been named "Outstanding Book of the Year" by the
Division of Instructional Development of the Association for
Educational Communications and Technology.
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