Taking what by now seems to be my usual contrary and dismissible
position, I think we need to think of research as design. All
research is designed, but not all design is researched. In this way
of looking, research is a subset of design and it is completely
inappropriate (unless practising self-reference) to consider design
as a subset of research. But I've said that before, in fact since 1978!
Ranulph
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