Thanks to Karel for the link to Christopher Frayling's paper (one more
piece of paper I don't have to keep) and thanks Ken for a posting that I
will read.
I would like to draw attention to another discussion of the three-part
plan by Bruce Archer in a paper he wrote for codesign in 1995 (the
short-lived 1990s codesign, not the current Taylor and Francis Journal).
I think I am right in saying that Archer also covered much the same
ground in a dinner speech to the 1998 DRS conference in Birmingham UK,
Bob Jerrard will know.
Unfortunately I have lost my copy and cannot track down one. If anybody
has a copy of that issue of codesign (or any other) I would be very
pleased to have the opportunity to scan it - I'm aiming to scan the full
set of codesigns and put them on the web, I have two copied so far.
Archer's paper post-dates Frayling but there is evidence he was
developing the three-part scheme much earlier, in the 1980s. Given that
Frayling was his boss who can say what really happened?
Anyway I feel that Bruce Archer's paper gives a much more comprehensive
and wide-ranging account than Frayling and it deserves attention. I'd
like to have another look myself as it was very influential on my
thinking in the mid-90s.
Archer, B. The Nature of Research, Co-Design, (1995):2, 11.
So if you have this please get in touch
best wishes from Sheffield
Chris
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