Archive for November, 2004



Translating design action into knowledge

Published on November 14, 2004

Clive Dilnot writes about how practice can become knowledge-productive if we follow a two-step process of enactment (practice), plus critical reflection. He refers to this second stage as an analytical translation of enacted practice into knowledge. Yet I wonder whether in my experience so far I haven’t worked through three stages. The first two stages [...]


Critics Comments #4

Published on November 10, 2004

The panellists comments that came from this review exposed the confusion that comes from the circularity embedded within my topic. Given that I am presenting my current research, by exploring the presentation/dissemination of my previous research…it often becomes unclear where my current PhD topic begins and my old Masters research ends. This is further amplified [...]


Designerly Dissemination

Published on November 2, 2004

Clive Dilnot writes about how although the sciences might number the world and the humanities might narrate it, what they have in common is a predisposition to describe it. Whereas he makes the distinction that design is less concerned with describing ‘what is’, and more interested in proposing ‘what if’?
Given that academic literature on [...]