Dear Professor Ranjan,
I'm still thinking about our earlier discussion on verification of design.
Your latest post is interesting and prompts me to ask my question again, in
a slightly different form.
When you speak of outcomes, are you speaking of acceptance or rejection by
the users of products, or do you believe that there are other criteria for
assessing outcome that are independent of user acceptance? In short, are
there some products that people like and accept but that are "bad" in one or
another sense?
I am trying to determine whether your criteria for verification of design
are relative or absolute in any sense.
Regards,
Richard
Richard Buchanan
Carnegie Mellon University
On 8/7/07 6:53 AM, "Prof. M P Ranjan" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Friends
>
> We have been discussing the lack of research into many aspects of design
> and design research and I agree that this is quite true from many angles.
> However It is also true that many areas of research do cover the
> intentions and the outcomes of design action although these may not be
> percieved as an area of design research by many in the field as well as
> outside.
>
> At NID we have been doing sustained research into the crafts traditions of
> India and these have so far been only available to NID schollars who have
> access to the single unpublished copies in the NID Library, over 800 study
> documents if you do not include the ones on textile crafts and the design
> projects. These have remained unpublished both due to a lack of funds and
> also due to a lack of vision that thse are of great value to our design
> movement in India and elsewhere.
>
>
> However, I am happy to inform you that we have just recieved an advance
> copy of the book "Handmade in India" that was researched and created at
> the NID based on 40 years tradition of crafts documentation and the last
> five years of intensive research by over 50 teams from NID and it is
> published and produced by COHANDS and Mapin Publishing Pvt Limited with
> the support from Development Commissioner Handicrafts Government of India.
> I am one of its editors and the first copy is at hand and we are quite
> pleased with the results.
>
> I have posted a note about the book and its design intensions on the
> Design for India blog at this link below:
> <http://www.design-for-india.blogspot.com/2007/08/handmade-in-india-handbook-o
> f-crafts-of.html>
>
> There is another post about the information architecture used for the book
> at the Visible information India blog at this link below:
> <http://visible-information-india.blogspot.com/2007/08/information-architectur
> e-for-handmade.html>
>
> We hope to have the books out in bookstores in India by early October 2007
> and you can see more about the book at the Mapin website at this link.
> <http://www.mapinpub.com/Handmade_in_India>
> Mapin proposes top make the book available globally when the second
> reprint is released later this year.
>
> RMIT produced a book titled 'Design Research" by Peter Downton and the key
> premise here is that every design project is a platform for research and I
> do agree with this point of view but we do need to find ways of publishing
> these design research findings and perhaps the web based approaches to
> publishing that are being achieved by portals on design may actually help
> us bridge the gaps that we are discussing today.
>
> What do you think?
>
> With warm regards
>
> M P Ranjan
> from my Mac at Gandhinagar
> 7 August 2007 at 4.15 pm IST
>
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> Prof M P Ranjan
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