On Jul 30, 2013, at 3:20 AM, Ken Friedman wrote:
> We are about to undertake a capacity mapping study on design integration capacity for CSIRO – Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. Once we do some serious research on this, I expect to know more about the capacity of different organizations to work in this domain.
Ken, Your focus on research universities and their role, carries with it an obligation to communicate to potential end users (practitioners, their clients, and those affected) what university research has accomplished, or might accomplish with respect to the future of designing.
You could do a world of good if you compiled a list, as only you can do, of research findings you deem most informative, and exemplary research projects focused on design issues that you deem to be exemplary. It would also be good practice to communicate the purpose, information base, approach, research plan, methodology, assessment criteria, and presumed significance of the work you are about to undertake. Research isn't evidential until it can be considered from a purposeful/contextualized perspective.
Or so I believe,
Chuck
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