SOME NOTES ON PROGRAM/EXPERIMENT DIALECTICS
Johan Redström · 2011
Searching for ways of conducting practice-based design research, we have explored an approach based on the formulation of design programs as a foundation and framework for carrying out design experiments. Over the years, we have presented a number of such programs along with experiments that explore and express their potential. There are, however, methodological issues in this way of working that need further development. One such set of issues pertains to what we might refer to as a program‐experiment dialectics, that is, how the research process unfolds over time as program and experiments influence, challenge and transform each other. In what follows, aspects of this dialectic will be discussed with focus on issues such as how such a process is initiated, how the unfolding of the research process depends on both stabilisation and drift, and what it means to say that such a process comes to a closure.