Dear List ,
Dear Terry, David and Mohammad
Thank you very much for your prompt reply, the point here is that we might
need most is to have a map of design research worldwide, to know Who or at
least Which Organization does What and Where. If you want to work in a
specific field of research with who can you contact or where you can
continue your work ?
As terry listed, there is a huge list of topics, however it would be more
convenient to know where does topics are being done. In which universities ?
which departments ?
Well I don't expect an answer , I just wanted to mention it is a great
topic of research and needs collaborative work . If the book Terry with Ken
is preparing or the material David Durling is preparing , would cover some
aspects that would be great.
Even more practically speaking, it would be very helpful to know which
topics are hot topics of design research, there might be some topics just
for collaboration but there are no facilities or funds available for it
.However if a specific university works within some areas of design
research, they can also find each other and collaborate, as an example if
in university of Art and Design Helsinki and University of Brighton work on
Design semiotics simultaneously , there would be a very good opportunity to
collaborate. I don't know whether such a picture is still clear for all of
us.
I myself am ready to collaborate with anyone who would like to work on this.
Alireza Ajdari, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Industrial Design;
University of Tehran,Iran.
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Address : Enghelab Ave. University of Tehran,
Faculty of Fine Arts , Department of Industrial Design.
Tell : +98-21-66415867
Cell: +98-9360467986
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