After the world-cup 2010 semi-final, Germany-Spain, we held a spontaneous roundtable on the question about building bridges between Design Research and Practice (this was the same roundtable theme held at DRS2010). We have come up with some propositions which we intend to invite more discussion about.
Balder,Fabian, Rosan, Tom
DRS 2010 First Day
Yes, we were in Montreal attending DRS2010. After having witnessed the defeat of the German team, we were not in the mood to return to the Roundtable discussion on building bridges between research and practice, so we held our own round-table.
The conference was kick-started by Erik Stotlerman whose keynote was 'Improving Design without destroying it'. We four found it to be a fairly mild presentation without much provocation. Because we had seen Erik giving much more interesting talks before, so we were wondering why. It could be the first day of the conference was dedicated to building bridges between researchers and practitioners (the local organisors had send out special invitation to designers to come), so Erik might have wanted to stay with the basic with simple ideas. And his keynote was supposed to contextualize the Roundtable discussions.
Basically, in the keynote, Erik made the point that design is a disciplined practice that delivers unique outcomes and these need to be understood and respected if research is to improve design.
Even the Hybrid does not save the World
Such nice illustrations! - You could add those people that walk on water.
Anyway, I wanted to add that this very issue also came up during the last Design Promoviert. Especially when it comes to justifying how both are interrelated. Even if one day we have raised ourselves to be the perfect designer-researcher, the gap remains (or doesn't it?). Is it even possible to be more than a mediocre researcher when doing studies in design at the same time, or the other way around? Do we need to be Wunderkinder?
Say hello to Montreal,
Katharina.
>>> You could add those
>>> You could add those people that walk on water.
right, we also had that idea, but did not dare to post it ;-)