Dear All,
In my short introduction book to design for the French audience, I'm trying
to give a very quick overview of what is design research, and especially a
few details about the international design research community (which is
unfortunately not very well-known in France). Do we have an idea of how
many design researchers there are around the world?
Of course, you will probably ask me first to define what is a designer
researcher. You're right and this is a very challenging research question.
But, for this counting exercise, let's do as if we knew what a design
researcher is. If we just try to count 'how many' they are, I guess we will
begin to have an idea of 'who and what' they are, according to the counting
method and sources that will be used.
In his "Design Research Journal Ranking Study" (2008), Ken Friedman gives
these informations:
"We sent an invitation to several high quality lists of scholars and
specialists in design and design research. These lists included: 1) the
membership and fellows list of the international Design Research Society
(ca. 500), 2) the email bulletin of Design Studies Forum, the design and
design research division of the North American College Art Association (ca.
400), 3) the world’s largest specialized design research discussion group,
the Anthropology in Design research discussion forum (ca. 1,500), 4) the
world’s largest general design research discussion forum, the
JISCMAIL-based PhD-Design list with subscribers from many of the world’s
leading universities (ca. 1,400), 5) a broad selection of journal editors
and editorial board members from a wide range of journals (ca. 200), 6)
members of the Australian Built Environment and Design Deans (ca. 17).
While there is significant overlap between and among these lists, these
enabled us to reach much of the world’s active design research community on
short notice."
How many subscribers are we today, in 2014, at PHD-Design list? Do you have
other sources of information about the size of the worldwide design
research community?
Thanks in advance for any help on that.
Best,
--
*Stéphane Vial*
Maître de conférences en sciences du design à l'Université de Nîmes
Responsable de la licence Arts Appliqués
Membre permanent de l’équipe « Sémiotique des Arts et du Design »
à l'Institut ACTE (UMR 8218, CNRS/Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Co-responsable du groupe de recherches PROJEKT
uni.stephane-vial.net
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PhD Philosophy (Paris Descartes University)
Associate Professor of Design Studies at the University of Nîmes (France)
Head of the Bachelor of Applied Arts Program
Researcher at the ACTE Institute, Sorbonne Paris 1 University
Co-head of the research group PROJEKT <http://projekt.unimes.fr/>.
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