Dear Ken and Ranulph
In relationship to your dialogue around the kind of relationship that
exists between design and research, I have found the seminal book by
C. West Churchman, The Design of Inquiring Systems (1971, Basic Books,
NY) to be a great jumping off place. Although his examples are
inquiring systems whose expected outcomes are truth focused I have
found the fundamental idea of designing inquiry as compelling in other
cases as well.
Harold
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