Creative Practice and Critical Reflection: Productive Science in Design Research

摘要

Designers and design researchers have struggled for many years to find useful models for their work. Researchers in the Design Methods Movement, for example, found that seeking a new "scientific" basis for designing-one that would lead to a methodology of design practice, as well as a framework for research-was important. Whether this effort was successful is open to debate because of conflicts among the various proposals, leaving the issue open for ongoing exploration. As an alternative to approaches such as design science, dialectic, or rhetoric, which have given intellectual strength and direction to research and creative projects, we focus on a model and a strategy that provides a different perspective on the struggle of a practicing designer and artist as he or she seeks to develop creative work. The strategy is called productive science, or poetics.