Dear List,
It was with great sadness that I heard about Ranulph's death. My thoughts and condolences go out to his family and close friends.
Ranulph was a very generous, thoughtful and quite brilliant scholar.
Salu mentions the recently published "The Routledge Companion to Design Research" book that my colleague, Dr Joyce Yee, and I edited.
We had the absolute privilege and joy of working with Ranulph on his contribution entitled "The Sometimes Uncomfortable Marriages of Design and Research" that took pride of place as the first paper in the book. I know Ranulph, at times, was struggling to pull this paper together. However, in the end he produced another thought-provoking piece of work.
The paper begins with a "Personal Introduction" and I include it below:
"There are many possible arguments the author of a chapter on design research might make, other than the one I chose to make here. And I have no doubt that what I have written will not sit comfortably or properly, in the minds of some readers. I can imagine the instantly dismissive tone of a certain type of response, precisely the sort of response I am trying to argue against. None of this makes my account wrong: it merely makes it contentious. It may be seen as contentious in what it includes, but also, and perhaps more so, in what and who it does not mention. The difficulty in any attempt to provide a position – or a review – is to find a line and then to hang a convincing and interesting story on it. In finding that line, any author will accommodate many views, but inevitably not all, and will feature the work of some, but not most, authorities. A further difficulty is not to drown the narrative of the story in reference, while yet showing the story is justifiable. And it is also to make space to include your own view, as author, without overplaying it. The real test of a text like this is, I believe, whether the argument helps you (the reader, but the author also) better to understand, and to act better. This is a reader’s judgement: like a placebo, the question is not what design research ‘really’ is, but how this account helps readers themselves understand and go forward."
Ranulph Glanville will be very sorely missed.
Best,
Paul
Paul Rodgers
Professor of Design Issues
Co-Director of Northumbria - Sunderland AHRC Centre for Doctoral Training
Northumbria University, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences
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Subject: Re: Ranulph Glanville is Gone
Dear all,
A good way to remember Glanville is to read some of his texts. I’ve only recently come at the works by Glanville due to purchasing this brand new book:
The Routledge Companion to Design Research (eds.) Edited by Paul Rodgers, Joyce Yee
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415706070/
Glanville has authored the first chapter, and I found his thoughts very interesting and thought-provoking. So, I began searching for more. Some of his works can be found at https://independent.academia.edu/RanulphGlanville
I’d be interested in finding this one: Glanville, R. (1980), “Why design research?”, in Jacques, R. and Powell, J. (Eds), 1981 Design/Method/Science, Westbury House, Guildford.
In case you have this, I’d be glad if you could share a pdf. Thanks!
Kind regards,
Dr. Salu Ylirisku
Leader of the Embodied Design Group
Aalto University
http://designresearch.aalto.fi/groups/edg/
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