Recherche par le projet - une stratégie de recherche

Abstract
Research by design concerns the various ways in which design and research are generally interconnected in the production of new knowledge through the act of designing. Generally, a research process starts with a research question, topic or problem, which passes through a methodological reasoning and arrives at a new answer or solution. Research by design is not hypothesis-led and suggests a practice somewhat in the opposite order, where knowledge arises from design—from the proposal, model or experiment—to the generalisation and rationalisation by consciously extracting rules about the object of the research process: nomothetic research. In research by design, the creation or making is prior to the examination and representation, forming a pathway between work and thought, through the basic methodological means of architecture: objects, sketches, diagrams, notations and texts. Research by design is thinking through practice, to quote Mies van der Rohe: “I want to examine my thoughts in action…I want to do something in order to be able to think” (Mies van der Rohe, 1962).