Dear Francois,
Very friendly, I would answer: You cannot add:):):) You are talking about two different classes of models, two different ways of thinking, at different levels of abstraction, for different purposes. The terminologies don't interface.
Actually, the whole story is more complex and long. Also, I envisage here environmental design. You are right that before facilities programming there should be something else, but it is not the staff that you are talking about. Facilities programming (in environmental design) is the last phase of facilities planning, interfacing directly with design. Facility planning starts with project inception and ends with programming. I mean planning in the narrow sense. In the wide interpretation, planning covers the whole facility delivery process and should end with post-occupancy evaluation. The structure of programming cannot be describe with the terminology for the research process. When we employ typical research tasks in the process of programming, then we will have to develop research designs to fulfill these tasks. But the whole programming process should not be described in terms of hypothesis testing. Also, the concept of hypothesis is paradigm-specific. You don't need always to think in terms of hypothesis testing. There are other and more productive paradigms for design research. Now, considering that you are a mechanical engineer and interface with physics, I can accept that in your area this might be the preferred way.
Best wishes,
Lubomir
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Cc: Lubomir Savov Popov
Subject: Re: projection before analysis
Dear Lubomir
You wrote:
"I would have named it - the thread - 'programming before design.' "
May add that prior to any 'programming' - for action - there always is, consciously or not, rigorously or not, three initial phases of awareness of the phenomenon (1), hypotheses formulation (2) and hypotheses assessment (3). Perhaps that is what Rosan meant by "projection", followed or not by a more or less rigorous (depending on individuals and discipline) "analysis" of the entire course of action, ideally including a more or less wide assessment of possible outcomes
Best
Francois
Montreal
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