Dear Richard,
Thanks for the response to my question about what use design categories and the
valuable clarification that it isn't really categories although it has been
referred to as such on the list.
I think what you may have alluded to is a need in any field to be able to
articulate the value of what one is researching to the field, I think there may
be in this day and age a further imperative to articulate its place in the
global future, unknown as it may be. So, it might go like this, my research is
important to the field because . . . . , adding to the body of knowledge and
advancing a dialectic which relates to the broader socio-ecological environment
in the following ways which may foster further understanding of . . . and add
to the living dialogs in the world.
Jan
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