Dear Ken,
> One does not need a PhD to engage in dialogue and reflection. Many who
> have a PhD engage in dialog and reflection in teaching and in conducting
> research. Dialogue and reflection help people to think and work better.
> This is often more valuable than publishing a journal article. It is
> nevertheless not a research activity.
I have been speaking about the role of dialogue between people positioned differently institutionally
to help establish, and broaden, the disciplinary landscape in design from the bottom up, so to speak,
which involves the range of activities in which an academic participates as a holistic endeavour
involving research, teaching, etc., as opposed to the idea that they can be separated into distinct
spheres of activity.
I personally find it difficult to separate dialogues and subsequent reflection about my research from
the research itself, as my epistemological position follows Laurel Richardson, which is the idea of
research THROUGH writing, and Terry Threadgold, which is the idea of research as co-production
between participants and researcher, through the practice of what she calls rewriting. Hence my
hankering for considering research in its myriad modes on this list, including the daily dialogical
interactions that in my case, further my own process of becoming scholarly and presumably,
because I am completing a PhD, contribute to the knowledge landscape in design.
cheers,
teena
Richardson, L. 2000, 'Writing: a method of inquiry', in N. Denzin & Y. Lincoln (eds), Handbook of
qualitative research, 2nd edn, Sage, Thousand Oaks, London, New Delhi, pp. 516–29.
Threadgold, T. 1997, Feminist poetics: poiesis, performance, histories Routledge, London.
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