Science and design revisited

In 2012, Robert Farrell and Cliff Hooker published a paper in Design Studies, arguing against the conventional science–design distinction. Finding their position highly controversial, we opposed it in a paper of our own, to which Farrell and Hooker have now responded with a defence of their view. On request from the Editors, we seek in this paper to round off the dispute. We see it not so much in terms of who was right or wrong about what, as in terms of where our opponents and we may have been talking past each other. We also sum up some insights that the dispute has brought forward, while acknowledging the disagreements that no doubt remain.