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Hi Gunnar, First, I would like that people could read my previous post as a sympathetic humorous contribution. Second, I agree, that the culture of research in any discipline moves to the discipline through university and academia in the same way as the praxis moves. More and more (at least my students) research skills are introduced in our programs and are requirements in various design courses. In the same way, only a raving mad course leader would exclude design practitioners from teaching and Academia (the first Design Academy was made by the practitioners in 1563). The praxis itself includes more and more design research. That's why, obviously, the contribution of design research to design practice is huge and was huge! Not to mention the contribution of design practice to design research. Not to mention the contribution of aliens for both. That's why the question, although not dodgy (sorry for that, I didn't resisted the sound of dodgy dodge) is worthy to be dodged. I wanted to use theology instead of anthropology. But in these days you never know. I used anthropology because I have good friends on the field and I suspect that some were already abducted and some actually whish they have been. Don't make a big thing from it. Last, the Historians: If all design researchers, that research design History, were to be abducted, design would fall immediately into oblivion. Without its History, people would start doing just things, unrelated. Without memory any system collapses. One thing I know for sure, even if all UFOlogists were to be abducted by aliens, aliens would still continue to abduct people.maybe just with a little break (in order to confirm if they had abducted them all). Cheers, Eduardo PS: I'm seeing some funny lights coming ----- Original Message ----- From: "Swanson, Gunnar" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 5:44 PM Subject: Re: Nigel Cross on Design Research Eduardo Corte Real sent: Fri 1/18/2008 11:53 AM > The other is to dodge > dodgy questions. Eduardo, I'm not sure how the question was "dodgy." The straightforward wording might be "Does design research actually contribute to design and, if yes, how?" If the answer is "There is no more reason that design research should be a contribution to design than there is reason that chamber music should contribute to accounting" then that lets people make informed decisions about various things. For instance, Cross' answer made a compelling case for the inclusion of design researchers (or at least those knowledgeable about design research) in design education. Many answers (including the analogy to anthropology and human culture) are fairly compelling arguments for not doing so. Gunnar ---------- Gunnar Swanson Design Office 1901 East 6th Street Greenville, North Carolina 27858 USA [log in to unmask] +1 252 258 7006 http://www.gunnarswanson.com at East Carolina University: [log in to unmask] +1 252 328 2839