Ken wrote a very readable and interesting post, only the 1st paragraph of
which I've included below. It put me in mind of a recent paper I presented
as a keynote at the Intl Conf of the Cdn Engineering Design Network. I was
asked to speak on Design Research in Canada, and I decided to spend most of
my time trying to explain the breadth of "design research."
You can get the paper at
http://deseng.ryerson.ca/~fil/I/Papers/DesResCDEN09.pdf. It's mostly based
on Bruce Archer's work, and I think many on this list will likely think it's
a very naive paper, but the real point I wanted to make was that there are
/many/ ways to regard design research (72 by my count in the paper), some of
which pretty much run contrary to some others. Yet they are all 'design
research'.
What I'm saying is (a) there's room for all of us in this sandbox, and (b)
just cuz one or another of us espouses one viewpoint doesn't mean he or she
is putting down any other viewpoint. And there might be some benefit from
developing some kind of framework that helps describe design research - not
so that we can partition ourselves into silos (we have enough of those
already) but so that we can reach some kind of consensus on language to
describe to one another the different kinds of research and design in which
we're engaged, for the sake of growing together as a group concerned with a
discipline of design.
Cheers.
Fil
2009/10/16 Ken Friedman <[log in to unmask]>
> Dear All,
>
> Without wanting to start a new thread on the ontology of the future,
> the philosophy of design, or the pragmatics of solving problems, I
> incline to agree with Terry Kavanagh on theological grounds. It is also
> a wise practical position. We must know where we are and what has come
> before us if we are to know either where we are headed or where we are
> going.
> [...]
>
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