Dear Terry
I think it is useful to see a difference between an idealized DESIGN RESEARCH
and an actual Design Research. And also to remember our ideals and realites
might not be the same.
What I see is this: I doubt that the 60,000 texts are done under the
intellectual guidance or in the name of an almighty empire DESIGN RESEARCH. I
see an emperor without clothes, let alone an empire. And yet this emperor has a
crown, a crown with different valuable jewels.
A kid yells, "The emperor has no clothes, he can't afford to lose the crown,
especially not the jewels'. Is this egoistically-selfish talk? This, I leave
you, ladies and gentlemen, to decide.
Best Regards
Rosan
Terence Love wrote:
> I have a research assistant just completing a structural mapping of the last
> 100 years of design-related literature. This project involves roughly
> 60,000 texts and hopefully the primary data collection and analysis will be
> complete in a fortnight. The findings and database should provide some
> useful background to discussions like this.
>
> On another tack, I’m a bit concerned at the egoistically-selfish tone
> emerging in the discussion that some how suggests that ‘we’ (whoever the
> ‘we’ is meant to mean) should own particular terms and concepts by some
> reified right and legitimation process. There are many different groups
> involved in design research across hundreds of different fields.
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