| Abstract: | The idea that design for a changing world necessitates active inquiry, whether scientific or gnostic in inspiration, is at least as longstanding as the identification of modernity with critique or revolution. Whether or how such inquiry constitutes research or scholarship is a more specific and recent consternation. Beyond the diverse institutional and disciplinary concerns at stake in this formulation is an interesting challenge: Can design works be critically engaged as a vehicle of knowledge by a wide audience of readers—one extending beyond the designer or her/his immediate community? What are the enabling and limiting conditions for such engagement? |
