Researching Design and Designing Research

In this essay, published in Design Issues 15(2), 80-91 (1999; a revised version of a 1997 conference paper), Ranulph Glanville examines the uneasy relationship between design and research that emerged as design sought scientific legitimacy from the 1960s onward, when fields like architecture were pushed to become more "scientific" in order to be taken seriously. Glanville looks at research, both as actually practiced and as formally reported, and compares it with what he sees as central to the act of design, in order to reassess the relationship between the two. His stated purpose is to construct an argument that gives design its proper place in research, concluding that research itself can be understood as a restricted form of design, rather than design being an inadequate or deficient form of research. Credits: Glanville, R. (1999). Researching Design and Designing Research. Design Issues, 15(2), 80-91.