I had a go at entangling the cliché created by Frailing and undo its sticky nature in
2010 "Discussions and Movements in Design Research: A systems approach to practice research in design" .Sevaldson, B. .FORMakademisk, 3, 8-35.
http://www.formakademisk.org/index.php/formakademisk/article/view/62
page 11-13
Dont know if I was very successful, but one argument in the paper is that this type of simplified schemas ar doing more harm than good and that we need to look much closer at what we are doing e.g. at the many different possible relations between design and reflection.
I prefere the term Research by Design also to detach it from Frailings sticky cliché.
Best
Birger
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Emne: Research through Design?
Dear Lise,
It would be very useful to have an explicit description of "research
through design." Frayling (1993) is a seven-page pamphlet taken from a
general talk he gave to encourage research in art and design. Frayling
floats three provocative research categories -- research into design,
research through design, and research for design. He does not really
describe them in the pamphlet. He provides a few basic words about each
of them and little more. He does not describe methods, and he never
deepened his commentary beyond a passing a 1997 comment (UK Council
1997: 21), in which he said that "research through design" is
“distantly derived from Herbert Read’s famous teaching through
art and teaching to art.”
For more than a decade and a half, I've been trying to find Frayling's
actual description. What I find, time after time, is people who state
that Frayling described a method -- all of them pointing back to the
original 7-page pamphlet. If you have more information on the method
"described by Christopher Frayling," I'd be interested.
Best regards,
Ken
Professor Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | University Distinguished
Professor | Dean, Faculty of Design | Swinburne University of Technology
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Reference
Frayling, Christopher. 1993. Research in Art and Design. RCA Research
Papers, vol. 1, no. 1. London: Royal College of Art.
Lise Yde wrote:
Research through design is increasingly used as a research-methodical
starting point for design research - inside as well as outside the
design discipline. Originally, the method was described by Christopher
Frayling (1993) and Bruce Archer (1995), and since then many different
suggestions for what the characteristics of research through design have
been presented.
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