Dear all,
I'm interested to read the issue of order and line of enquiry in PhD in
Design. This is also issue of other disciplines at the level PhD in XXXXX.
At PhD level, there is common ground knowledge and also specific knowledge
to be grasped or developed. Any suggestion?
Cheers,
Elson
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From: Rosan Chow [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 6:17 PM
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Subject: Aw: Re: Design Knowledge
Thanks, Harold.
what is the role or connection of Ph.D in Design (not Doctor of Design, this
for another day) in/to the academic programs described below? (you have only
mentioned professional studies).
does (or should) Ph.D in Design follow or is based on the tradition of
design inquiry as well? or is Ph.D in Design part of the second order
inquiry into the nature of design inquiry/knowledge? (Or this is a bad
question as the distinction between design inquiry and second order inquiry
may be false).
rosan
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Von: Harold Nelson <[log in to unmask]>
> Dear Rosan
>
> I am interested in this distinction because it aids an exploration into
> what sort of epistemic norms and regulative principles fit an
> architectonic culture of inquiry. Such norms and principles are clear
> in the case of science as a tectonic process (including design science
> thanks to the work of Herbert Simon's distinction between natural
> science and the sciences of the artificial). Research is science in
> action resulting in scientific knowledge. Scientific knowledge is
> formed to fit into a common scientific archive. Many professional
> schools in universities have been designed as part of the scientific
> culture: design science, management science, political science,
> engineering science, information science etc. These are very successful
> designs within the tradition of scientific research.
>
> My interest is in the design of academic programs based on the
> tradition of design inquiry; what should the epistemic norms and
> regulative principles be in order to create design knowledge? There is
> some interest in pursuing this design challenge among traditional
> professional fields and emerging new ones. For example Case Western's
> Weatherhead School of Management hosted a workshop a couple of years
> ago titled Designing as Managing. The subsequent book by the same
> title, published in 2004 by Stanford University Press and edited by
> Richard Boland and Fred Collopy, contains an interesting insight by
> Boland (the Dean of Weatherhead). He states that; " management practice
> and education have allowed a limited and narrow vocabulary of decision
> making to drive an expansive and embracing vocabulary of design out of
> circulation. In our focus on teaching students advanced techniques for
> choices among alternatives, our attention for strengthening their
> design skill for shaping new alternatives has withered."
>
> In other words he thinks MBA programs focused on management science
> have missed developing an essential necessity for professional practice
> in their students. Boland and others want to discover more about design
> inquiry and how it would affect professional education in the area of
> organizational design. The challenge is to discern the nature of design
> inquiry and to develop academic programs equivalent to programs based
> on scientific inquiry. For me this is an important challenge for all
> professional fields including but not limited to those defined formally
> as design programs.
>
> Harold
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