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
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Ben Matthews
Associate Professor
Mads Clausen Institute
University of Southern Denmark
On 9/17/08 8:46 AM, "Christopher Kueh" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear list=2C
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> 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.
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> Thanks!
> -Chris Kueh
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