I propose, Nigel, that our problem is, the design education project has, after 40 years or so, failed. The third way (Design) has been unable to stay afloat; it has been subsumed back into the swamps of STEM and social and cultural studies.
Designerly ways of thinking have not generated better designers than craft schools managed with their rough and ready transmission through the master and apprentice process.
PhD students, working in areas of design, are in urgent need of a vast array of understandings that come from the sciences and traditional humanities. The missing elements you complained off, in terms of submissions to journals, are part of academic research methods, not design know-how.
So, let’s chat about this?
keith
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