Thanks, Lubo
All excellent points. Defining the start of any subject is always
difficult. Should we consider alchemistry as the start of the scientific
field of chemistry? My readings convince me that we should -- but not all
alchemists, only some.
Practitioners of a field have to exist long before the field itself. After
all, in order to have a field, there have to be some critical number of
people who believe in it and who are already practising it. The earliest
practitioners can exist many decades before the field is officially
recognized and named.
thanks for the comments
don
On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 8:53 AM, Lubomir Savov Popov <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Before we look at the history of design research, we need to define design
> research and which human activities qualify for design research. Do we
> search for and include the inquiry method of the craftsmen? Do we include
> everyday inquiry methods? Or we consider only scientific research (again,
> with all varieties of paradigms and movements). If we consider only
> scientific research, I would go with Victor Margolin and several other
> authors like him.
>
Don Norman
Prof. and Director, DesignLab, UC San Diego
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