Dear Ken,
You are right, Zimmerman et al. (2010) are optimistic about the future of research through design. They also briefly report a couple of examples of high-quality RtD. However, the diagnosis is that the approach is still weak, and I don’t see a much change on that. Regarding the UK report that David cites, it seems impressive. I wonder what are the criteria to measure the research outputs.
What is missing is a good textbook or several about design research methodology. You have mentioned that we could use some books and references from other disciplines, but we need our own books. Now I imagine that practice-based research supervisors are taking too many different directions. I hope Muratovski’s book start to fill this gap. I would love to read it as soon as possible.
Thanks.
G. Mauricio Mejía, PhD
Associate professor University of Caldas, Colombia
@mmejiaramirez
Zimmerman, J., Stolterman, E., & Forlizzi, J. (2010). An Analysis and Critique of Research through Design: towards a formalization of a research approach (pp. 310–319). Presented at the DIS 2010, Aarhus, Denmark: ACM Press.
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