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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