Dear Martin,
Sorry — caught a typo in my response to your post.
The paragraph should have mirrored you comment on “unhealthily conflated with all sorts of issues of funding and career paths/ promotions”
My reply paragraph should have read:
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So, too, there are universities that award the PhD for creative practice. A work of art supported by a thesis of a few thousand words demonstrates that an artist or designer can skilfully “apply what the field already knows without bringing new knowledge to the field.” Why would a university award a PhD for this? There are many reasons, and these reasons involve an unhealthy conflation of Frayling’s views with funding, career paths, and promotions. I’m not saying this is good. I am saying that it takes place.
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Please read Friedman (2008) “Research Into, By and For Design” for my full discussion. You can download it and read it on my Academia page at URL:
https://swinburne.academia.edu/KenFriedman
Yours,
Ken
Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | Editor-in-Chief | 设计 She Ji. The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation | Published by Elsevier in Cooperation with Tongji University Press | Launching in 2015
Chair Professor of Design Innovation Studies | College of Design and Innovation | Tongji University | Shanghai, China ||| University Distinguished Professor | Centre for Design Innovation | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia
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