To bekendelser om designforskning

Researchers are expected to write about their subject, not about themselves. Hence academic prose should generally be matter-of-factly serious, and impersonal in style. The latter constraint has been deliberately relaxed in the two short essays that follow. This renders them semi-academic in the sense that although they take their subject matter seriously, they do not abstain from giving it a personal twist. The subject matter is design research. The personal twist is a kind of self-portrait, framed by the context of design research. The first essay is mostly about the goals of design research. The second is mostly about the motives for doing design research.