Friends,

Here is a repeat copy of the CFP for Case Studies in Research: 
Knowledge and Inquiry.

Design Research Quarterly is a serious venue that welcomes articles 
focused on research issues,
research methods, research skills, research training, and research 
education in the design domain.

DRQ seeks articles and welcomes them for the peer-reviewed journal 
section of this hybrid format.

If you've got an idea for an article, contact the editor,

Dr. Peter Stokerson at email: <[log in to unmask]>

This call welcomes articles in lengths between 3,000 words and 6,000 
words. As you'll see, it is ideally suited to reports on developing 
but incomplete work by doctoral students and early career researchers 
as well as by more experienced scholars and scientists.

There will also be room for articulate replies to the articles as 
they are published.

Yours,

Ken Friedman

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Call for Papers:

Designers use the term 'design' to cover a wide range of activities 
and types of problems, and we have many differing, often 
incommensurable and opposing models of design and its theoretical and 
methodological bases. As a result, we also have have a history of 
lively debates over specific theories. These debates have not been 
able to resolve differences.

Many regions of design are not well defined, and in such situations, 
researchers can find that apparently straightforward problems can 
lead to fundamental questions about the nature of design, what kinds 
of philosophical and theoretical positions that can frame the 
research and ground the methods, and their implications with regard 
to knowledge: what kinds of knowledge are possible within the frames 
needed to do the research.

In short, we want to hold a discussion on how research steers theory. 
Our idea is to look at research and theories in design not primarily 
as related to subfields per se, but to see theories as products of 
research problems themselves: the topics studied studied and the 
questions being researched. Rather than look at abstract problems of 
research and theory, we want to present actual problems as case 
studies. In this way, we can clarify design by mapping its terrain of 
activities and problem types with their fundamental theoretical and 
methodological requirements.

Over the next two years, DRQ will collect and publish articles on 
these topics and replies to those articles, using its regular 
publication schedule to build a discussion. If you have an interest 
or idea for an article or other submission, please contact the 
editor, Peter Storkerson.

Topics:

We seek papers that explore issues including:

- ontological and epistemological implications cc or requirements of 
a research problem

- status of knowledge, its bases and levels of certainty

- conflicts between the knowledge that is possible in a given 
situation and the research goals.

- how research fits into fundamental paradigms: scientific, humanist, 
phenomenological, pragmatic, etc., and how those approaches compare 
in their strengths and weaknesses

- working across the boundaries of humanism and science: the extent 
to which a research problem requires use of more than one basic 
philosophical frame and how different frames can be reconciled

Specifications:

3,ooo to 6,000 words

APA guidelines

For information or submissions, contact:

Peter Storkerson, Editor, Design Research Quarterly

email: [log in to unmask]

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