Dear Mauricio,
There are many different occasions for doing research and many different
ways to do research. I think that if you are specifically concerned with
PhD research, and assuming you are interested in systematic research, then
it would help to distinguish between what a PhD is and what it investigates.
A PhD is primarily training in research* (Durling, 2002, p.82).
According to Don, things that are intuitive have taken years of practice.
Presumably, most students who enter PhD programmes do not already have the
years of experience for the practice of research to become known without
conscious reasoning.
Therefore, presumably, intuition does not play a role in the training
aspect of a PhD.
However, of course, research can investigate things that have become
intuitive to designers, and so can generate knowledge about design and for
design (Horvath, 2011, p.1).
Best regards
Luke
*According to Durling (2002):
-Snip-
Research asks questions, selects appropriate methods, tests the questions,
analyses the results, and disseminates the conclusions unambiguously. In so
doing, the best research lays bare the bones of the processes of
investigation, and discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the results.
It lays down reliable knowledge that future researchers may follow, and
methods that may be repeated if necessary. Practice does not normally have
these goals, and the reasons for practice are quite different. They may
involve a personal journey, a burning desire to be the best designer, the
development of a new technology, some functional improvement, or simply
earning a living. These are not necessarily lesser goals, but they are
different in kind. Research and practice coexist as different
categories of creative
endeavour, and should not be confused as being identical categories." (p.81)
-Snip-
Durling David. 2002. “Discourses on Research and the PhD in Design”. In:
Howard Green and Malcolm Shaw, Editors. Quality Assurance in Education:
Standards and the doctoral award, vol. 10, no. 2, 79-85. ISSN 0968-4883.
Date accessed 24 May 2014
http://durling.org/papers_files/Discourse%20PhD%20QAE.pdf
Horvath, I. (2001, August 21-23). *A contemporary survey of scientific
research into engineering design.* Paper presented at the International
Conference On Engineering Design ICED 01, Glasgow.
On 23 May 2014 21:58, G. Mauricio Mejía <
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> Dear list members,
>
> After reading Don’s-started thread on intuitive and analytical thinking in
> design practice. I wonder some of these issues but applied to design
> research.
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Faculty of Health, Arts and Design, Swinburne University of Technology,
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