Dear Birger,
Thanks for your notes and added comments. In an earlier note, you asked a question of me:
“…some other times, I think of it as a question of balance: Developing our 'discipline' from within vs learning from others, from the outside of the discipline. If so we disagree on balance.
"I always thought that a field without basic research is next to nothing. Basic research is the internal blood that lets the discipline develop so that it is distinct from other disciplines. There must be a difference between design research as a field, its methods and approaches and the rest or it has no justification. So what is this difference according to you Ken?"
I've been reading all the material, and thinking. There's one question yet to answer before I can write a reply.
What do you mean by "basic research"? As I wrote earlier, there are several general and broadly accepted definitions of the term “basic research.” In this sense, basic research is part of a triad of basic research, applied research, and what – in some fields – is called clinical research. To write an intelligent response, I’d like to see if we mean the same thing by the term “basic research.”
Yours,
Ken
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