Dear Gavin,

I am not so surprise, instead i think it's about time different design disciplines start to cross. Being a believer in inter- and cross-disciplinary design, i see that's how the Design industry is heading. More over, design-in-general has an established history (and i think we have quite a fair bit of discussion on disciplinary and inter-/cross-disciplinary on this list). If design can be seen as general, i think design research too can be so.

In my case, it's not that much of architecture 'taking instruction' from from other disciplines, but more of an exchange. I teach across graphic/information deign and architectural design, and i do see the benefits of one discipline learning from another. I strongly believe we have a lot to learn from each other in the years that we have developed our own expertise in each design disciplines.

cheers
Chris

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> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:40:18 +1000
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Architectural Design Research
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 
> Dear Ben, Chris & list
> 
> Actually I am very surprised that any architectural faculty, school
> etc., would takie instruction from the newer design disciplines about
> how to do research. What is going on?
> 
>>>> Ben Matthews  17/09/08 7:35 PM>>>
> Dear Chris and list,
> In addition to the resources David and Gavin have shared, I have found
> the
> research into practice conference and resulting publications (working
> papers
> in art and design) exceptionally valuable for discussions concerning the
> relations between design and research.
> http://sitem.herts.ac.uk/artdes_research/papers/wpades/index.html
> Stephen Scrivener's reflections there (among others) are well worth
> looking
> at.
> Much of the discussion of design as research seems to refer to Frayling
> and/or Archer's papers, though copies of these can be a little difficult
> to
> track down.
> Archer B. 1995. The nature of research. Co-design Journal 2:6-13
> Frayling C. 1993. Research in art and design. Royal College of Art
> Research
> Papers 1:1-5
> 
> On a side note, I recently (with Tuuli Mattelmäki from University of Art
> &
> Design, Helsinki) presented at a PhD Summerschool on 'design
> experiments',
> organised by Thomas Binder & Eva Brandt in Copenhagen; Pelle Ehn, Lars
> Hallnæs & Johan Redström were also among the presenters, and each
> presentation treated the relationship of research & design in a
> different
> way. We hope to compile the presentations into some kind of publication
> in
> the near future. I'm happy to send you the abstracts if you're
> interested.
> All the best,
> Ben
> -- 
> Ben Matthews
> Associate Professor
> Mads Clausen Institute
> University of Southern Denmark
> 
> On 9/17/08 8:46 AM, "Christopher Kueh"  wrote:
> 
>> Dear list=2C
>> =20
>> I am currently working on developing and improving Architectural
> Research M=
>> ethods unit at Curtin University=2C Western Australia. One of the
> important=
>>  aspects that I am looking into is Design as Research. This area
> emphasises=
>>  design process itself as investigation process. Just wondering if
> anyone c=
>> an point me to some literature in this area. So far=2C I have in my
> list: A=
>> rchitectural Research Quarterly=3B some publications from RMIT=2C
> including=
>>  Peter Downton's Design Research=3B Design Research Now by Ralf Michel
> (ed)=
>> =3B Designerly Ways of Knowing by Nigel Cross.
>> =20
>> Also any suggestions on how to run research methods in design (in
> general) =
>> would be great for me! This includes which area in Design Research do
> you t=
>> hink is lacking body of knowledge.
>> =20
>> Thanks!
>> -Chris Kueh
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