Dear Terry,
You tend to forget about Mario.
A good thing to do, if you still have that research assistant, would be
to find the books that Although NOT in English use the word Design in
the title. The last 50 years would be enough.
Best,
Eduardo
On 30-06-2011 15:28, Terence Love wrote:
> Hi David,
> Great post.
> It's perhaps unhelpful, however, to so completely separate the practical
> aspects of literature reviewing and the subjective reasoning of critical
> filtering and analysis of content. Good 'plumbing' software greatly
> facilitate the ability to explore and analyse and then manage knowledge
> across many domains and from many locations in ways that are highly-linked
> with the ability to apply critical reasoning..
> A few years ago, I asked a research assistant to identify and categorise
> for the last 100 years, ALL the books in the English language that had
> 'design' in their title - from ANY discipline. The aim was to critically
> interpret the growth and dynamic shifts in growth in design activity in and
> across all disciplines and communities of practice over the 20th century.
> Most of what was found was not peer-reviewed research material and a huge
> amount of it was surprising in terms of the realms and disciplines from
> which it came. The insights, and the ability to do this critical review
> rapidly and economically, were closely linked to the abilities of the
> referencing software that enabled direct linking into library systems. For
> me, it seems better to see the ability to undertake critical reviews as
> interlinked socio-technical activity than to try to force a separation into
> practical and subjective processes..
> Warm regards,
> Terry the plumber
>
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>
> Hi All,
>> I don't think Victor's original post was really about plumbing, I think it
> was about two inter-related matters that sit beyond the plumbing.
>
> In the first instance it was about the reservoirs of knowledge and know-how
> which we draw on for our water and in the second instance it was to do with
> the filtering that goes on once we turn on the tap.
>
> What I think rightly disturbs Victor is the stagnant pools from which some
> people draw on in their investigation of our fields, missing some of
> glorious fresh water lakes because they are outside their own professionally
> approved territory.
>
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