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Issue 2.1

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In his reflection on “The Nature of Research,” L. Bruce Archer, the late mechanical engineer and professor of design research at the Royal College of Art, argued that “Research is a systemic inquiry whose goal is communicable knowledge. . . .”1 Knowledge is not made in isolation, but within a context of previous work; it resides in a discipline which has a value system in both methodological approaches and in evaluation. Research is not only the act of investigation but one of communication, where the results are formalized, reviewed, and disseminated. Simply put, research has criteria and a system…

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