Meredith Davis

unclear what people consider "design research"

81% of practicing designers say they engage in research

65% of department chairs 

Metropolis Survey 2005 about research and design, 1051 designers, educators, and students responded

our emerging research culture has a lot of challenges

move attention to designing for systems (contemporary complex problems)

move toward attention economy

look at AIGA 2015 statement

move from simple to complex, from artifacts to strategies, raising in complexity from components to products to systems to interacting systems

reference Shelly Evanson, and service design, look at the schools of thoughts site

what is the knowledge base necessary to design at that scale and that complexity?

reference Richard Lanham, The Economics of Attention, for the shift from an information economy to an attention economy.

reconceivein the people fro whome we design as active contributors rather than as customers or users

reference Gerhard Fischer, Beyond Couch Potatoes

enew media change the structure and onctes...

reconciling the trend toward globalization and t eh desire to preeeve cultural identity and production.

Gobal 3.0 makes it possible for some any more poepo to plug in and paly and you are going tos ee every colof of the human raimnbow take part. Reference Friedman, The world is flat.

distinguish research from tenurable activites for todays discussion

what is necessary to move design forward as a field and to nurture its research culture

Liz Sanders: Design research: today and tomorrow

practice covers all areas of design in her enterprise MakeTools, has most recently been working exclusively with Architects and interior space planners

how ift feels today, design and research are blurring at the front end of the design process. It is a time of disruption and confusion. She was trained as a Social Scientitst. "The Fuzzy Front End" of the design process.

Emergence of co-desing and co-dreation brings unceratingty. Who designs? Who is in control?

New design domains coming into creation. Reference second life as a place in which these domains emerge.

new design disciplines, sucha as service desng and transfromatin design are appeargin.

build a visual map of design research, text description follows

interesting action is in the top half of the map

design will become synomous with design research at thr front end fo the process

we will need hibritd practitioneers

design researchers

research designers

do-desing and co-dreation

cod designing teams will expan to indlucd

design research landscape will contintue to grow and chant into virtual dimentions

designing willswitch from focus on product to purpose

cites the potential for at least six new disciplines of design practice

Poggnepohl

"Profound silly and missing"

gonn give us hell, sometimes you have to leave the country to see what is going on in the country.

IASDR international association of societies of design research. members are the chiniese insttitue of desing. the design research society

using science as science

double layered double blind process

how to match referee to abstract?

used Design Studies keywords to set up expertise for referees

to dense to blog

increasingly we care a great deal about undersstanding other cultures..

research is about knowledge building

reference Michael Polanyi (1967) The Tacit dimensioin

What we understand and acan execute intuitively....

vs 

Explicit knowledge, what we learn through principles and experimentation

Discovery, intergration, application, teaching (Boyer 1990 Scholarship Reconsidered) 4 scholarship types.

University's mission/role? build knowldedge, 

design knowledge is evidence that is hsared, questioned, and that can be further developed.

majority of design reeserch in the US is proprietary and is not shared

same old ways to do design are no longer adequate

gobaliztion

mutidsci teams

cultural difference

ever changing tech

little infrastructur to siuuport this

A Chjallenge

RO:AD

to create Reasearch Orgahnization for Americna Design

mutlit-disciplinary

provide membershiop

journal 

national conferner

particiopation in kinternation bodies

americans need to step up

Nov 12-15, 2007 in hong Kong

received assumption is that students are taught from simple to complex, what happens when we turn this inside out and upside down?

is it required that all students be doing the same thing at the same time? with the same outcomes?

is our western pedagogy still viable at this point in time?

It is important that designers come to know the epistemology of their discipline? How do we know what we know? What is our ability to defend this as we work collaboratively? Especially in the sciences... difficult to collaborate with scientists who know with absolute certainty how they know what ehy know.

where do I go if I'm an undergraduate doing this thing when I graduate? To practice in this transformative way?

It's a mess right know. Need to aquire a research led approach right now to be competitive in a bigger research firm. Go to smaller compnies. (sanders)

(poggenpohl) go out there an get roughed up a bit by the profession, to gain the experience to get into a graduate program that will give you the credibility to do that thing.