Hi Danielle
I would like to add my support to what you are doing. A full scholarly collection of this kind is needed and would be useful to us all.
Can I suggest, however, that mapping is in the end only of limited value. Of much more importance in the long term is a critical analysis of design research methods. Going back to Christopher Jones’s collection of design methods (which is where I started my exploration of this area many years ago) I was struck by its lack of critical framework. In the end, it was like a good postage stamp collection: credible for its completeness, at the time. But with no analysis of the comparative merits of particular methods and the contexts in which they worked best, or not, as the case may be.
In my own limited field of information design, I have put some effort into making research and practical decisions about the methods that work best in my field, when to apply them, and how to value the findings and outcomes from these methods.
I would like to encourage you to take your mapping to this next level.
David.
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