Dear Mattias,
This is really a great example! Sometimes this process help people to
understand and apply their design-decisions with a win-win
situation (specially when an interdisciplinary design team start working
over a bunch of interrelated design-problems and trying to fiend out a
common and effective solution). This phenomena is called as obtaining
integrity-by-disintegrate...because in design...everything is
undefined...every designer and design-researcher is a human being primarily
and then a design-expert or laureate.

Please allow me to put an example...
case-1: when a tourist visits first time a mountain, he/she feels great
pleasure by fascinating with...the greenery, smell of the clay, colors of
the clay, hard and soft feelings-experienced by legs, pollution-free
environment etc...they stays at the place for few hours or for few days and
then returned back to own beautiful house in city. they liked that small
experience, because all those were not available in their daily life
environment... (for the case of A and B)

case-2: a person decided to leave over the same mountain. he/she made a
beautiful house their and start spending days and nights with an initial
self commitments for life. now after spending few days/months his/her all
the water stacks and food went finished. now it needs to come down at the
valley and make a well and to plough-grounds which is not an easy task,
he/she always need to worry about animals of the green forest, he/she she
start searching a person to talk and share thoughts...Now, they realize life
is natural here but not comfortable...(for the case of Z)

after reading both of the above cases...please suggest who was right? who
was wrong? both were right? both ware wrong?

as i understood, design research is situational...design research is
comparative... And it could not be bounded into equations...because it is
pure!

so, what your friends did... may be a good joke... but was not meaning
less... even it was a smarter way to fiend out a common solution.

Regards,
Santosh Jha
+91.8763443198
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1. PG in Crafts Product Design, 2004 Batch
Indian Institute of Crafts and Design, Jaipur, India
2. MBA Marketing, 2009 Batch
Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India
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Designer (Design Head), Design Cell
State Institute for Development of Arts and Crafts
Bhubaneswar, India
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On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Mattias Arvola <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I have a couple of friends who sat in the same office during their phd
> studies. One in software engineering and the other in medical informatics.
> The talked daily about their research and it would go something like this:
>
> - I think this means that A and B.
> - Oh, you mean Z.
> - No, but that is also a good idea!
>
> They called the process "research by misunderstanding".
>
> // Mattias
> --
> Mattias Arvola, Ph.D. in Cognitive Systems.
> Co-ordinator for the Undergraduate Programme in Cognitive Science.
> Sr. lecturer in Interaction Design.
> Linköping University.
> www.arvola.se
>