Dear Mike,
T
> wo questions to clarify two statements in your post.
>
> How would you know/determine/decide if something written was an
> improvement to our critical knowledge, or, is any contribution an
> improvement?
>
> Can you please define "criterial understanding of one or more key concepts
> of life" and then give a few examples where research through design has
> been proven/demonstrated/shown to widely to contribute understanding to/of
> one of these key concepts? At this point I don't question you will be able
> to provide examples, I just can't envision what you mean so I'm asking for
> specifics to illustrate/clarify. If the illustrations/examples come from
> your own research so much the better.
>
Thank you for asking me this. Your questions prompted me to work out
something for myself in more detail than I had before, for which I am
grateful.
I decided to post my response to my blog (mainly so I don't lose this
thread!)
https://interactionculture.wordpress.com/2015/03/08/the-criterial-knowledge-argument-for-research-through-design/
I mainly wrote it up to help me think through some stuff, so I'm not sure
if I answered your questions as directly as I might have, but I'm happy to
dialogue if you are interested.
Best regards,
Jeffrey Bardzell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Cultural Research in Technology [CRIT] Group
Human-Computer Interaction/Design
Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing
http://crit.soic.indiana.edu/
https://interactionculture.wordpress.com/
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