Dear all
Following the discussion and summary, I'd like to add one point that was argued by Dorst in his keynote speech at IASDR in 2007 (and then appeared in 2008 in Design Issues or Design Studies - sorry, I can't check, writing this from a train):
Design practice encompasses more elements of engagement than the embodied manifestation of design solutions, but also the creation of frameworks, dealing with stakeholders, devising strategies etc. He calls these meta-activities.
So, maybe our understanding of practice in PhDs could be informed by this, diversifying our demands on supervisors to be qualified in one of the many design activities, wether meta or [insert opposite of meta here], as long as they have dealt with practice.
To pour oil into the fire re wordcounts - I've heard from colleagues in science (who we in design research often have to justify ourselves to), though, that some of their PhDs involve around 20k words - their practical element being lab work, I assume...
Thanks, and all the best
Regina
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