"Why Research-oriented Design Isn't Design-oriented Research"
Daniel Fallman
http://www.tii.se/reform/inthemaking/files/p99.pdf
NORDIC DESIGN RESEARCH CONFERENCE
Cameron
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From: David Durling <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, February 17, 2006 9:16 pm
Subject: Re: Design-Based Research Collective
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> On 16 Feb 2006, at 11:29 am, Rosan Chow wrote:
>
> > It might be interesting to compare and contrast the development of
> > 'design-based research ' in Educational Technology and the
> > 'practice-based research' in Art and Design.
>
> It is at moments like this, that I wonder why nobody ever seems to
> use a term like 'research-based (or -led) design'. This might
> connote an area of design where the design project is constructed
> specifically as systematic investigative practice, with the
> intention
> of producing research results. It might also come to mean design
> that is evidence based, or otherwise based upon the results of
> research.
> This seems preferable to the often confusing terms which seem to
> privilege design over research.
>
> Rosan, any thoughts?
>
> David Durling
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