Dear Doris,
Thank you for your message.
I feel there is less agreement than you suggest about design methodology.
The methodology/methods/ methodoxies/ methodics argument is an old one and
there are many different positions other than that proposed.
I, and possibly many others, did not reply because the issues around design
methods/ methodology/ methodoxy/methodics are more complex than posed.
Many design researchers use the term 'methodology' accurately in its root
sense of 'the STUDY of methods' and thus has nothing at all to do with what
designers or researchers do directly whilst dsigning or studying design,
rather it is an ontological and epistemological study relating to the nature
of the concept of what something is to be a design method.
In the two decades of design research literature from around 1960 to 1980,
the sub-field title 'design methodologies' was typically used synonimously
with 'design philosophy' to indicate the deep study of design methods.
On the methods side, my own positin is that all design methods are purely
'information gathering methods' - nothing more, nothing less. Whether this
infromaption gathering is from a person delving into their own experience by
reflection, guessing subconsciously as opinion, responding physiologically
via emotion or consciously undertaking rigourous scientific experiment is a
matter of the method in focus. The core, however, is th eintention to gather
more informaiton and to know more so as to be able to move on with a design.
On another side, it seems that recent researhc in neurocognition is turning
upside down many of the assumptions we have had as a field about methods and
led the whole idea of design methods to now need to be reproblematised and
requestioned.
Best wishes,
Terry
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Sent: Friday, 3 April 2009 4:58 AM
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Subject: Re: intuition and methodology
Thank you, Eduardo and Chris, for your replies, reading suggestions (I’m
looking forward to Eduardo papers’) and gentle words.
I see that most people agree that methodology seems to be closer to opinion
than to scientific method. And although everybody still relies in its own
“methodoxy”, I keep asking myself if methodology is not becoming a kind of
corporation code in the institutionalized field. A subject that everybody
pretends to believe, but each one uses in its own way. The question is: in
the future, methodology, as a teached subject, will be transformed into a
dialogue between students and possible methods? Or it will be replaced by
something else?
Best regards and
Um abraço carioca,
Doris Kosminsky
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