Hi Stephan,
I don’t know anything of specific value in the Arts and Craft Movement, but I suspect that in almost all areas of design activity there are many informal undocumented activities which would be recognisable as ‘design research'. People talk to each other about what they do, watch other people using the things they make, and receive both praise and criticism of what they do.
In my own field of information design, it’s almost inconceivable that the advances made up to the end of the 19the Century, and many of the early 20th Century developments could have taken place without detailed design research, whether it was called that or not. Indeed there is a lot of evidence that suggests many of the formal research ‘discoveries’ of the last 70 years were already incorporated in routine design craft practice.
Few contemporary ‘design researchers’ take account of this accumulated know-how. A lot of wheels have been reinvented.
David
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> On 1 Feb 2017, at 4:05 pm, Stefan Holmlid <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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> All,
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> A bit of a long shot, maybe, but does anyone know to what degree the people within the Arts & Crafts movement were doing Design Research?
> In the UK William Morris wrote at least one design fiction; News from Nowhere (or, An Epoch of Rest) in 1890.
> In Scandinavia there were people like Ellen Key (one google-find in English: http://repository.brynmawr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1030&context=cities_pubs <http://repository.brynmawr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1030&context=cities_pubs>)
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> Anyone with good insight that can add to this little note?
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> All the best
> /Stefan Holmlid
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