With the discourse of the MIT panel and its impressive audience still firmly in our minds, please do some thinking and writing about Design and Research (as opposed to a search). For Monday morning, formulate and share your definitions of these two terms. Also, share your thoughts on whether the two are necessarily distinct. Is there overlap? Are the distinctions you draw necessary or convenient? How so, and if the latter, what purpose does the distinction serve? In other words, what is the role of the knower? As a possible starting point, here are the aspects of research as defined by Warren Seering (who, I was thrilled to see, lists design as a research interest):
1. Study the designer
2. Examine the design artifact (eg. the house)
3. Understand the methods of understanding
4. Define the tools (CAD, the hammer, etc.)
