Re: Design Exper. Meth. vs. pos
Mike Cole (mcole who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu)
Sat, 2 Aug 1997 08:11:52 -0700 (PDT)
Bill-- I liked Judy's answer concerning AT as a guide to practice of creating
new forms of activity designed for particular socio-ecological-cultural
niches. What has most impressed me about the results over the past 6 years
(the account in CP ends about 1993) is the incredible VARIETY of re-inventions
of the activities. In the past year the number and variety of such efforts
has increased several fold and I am still reeling from the job of trying
to describe/understand what has been happpening.
This work exists only in report forms, with lots of detail that most
people would not be interested in. But the general methodological issues may
be of general interest.
I didn't know that Jan Hawkins was editing the book on design experiments
with Allan, of if I knew I forgot. Twenty years ago she was a member of lchc.
And of course, so was Denis, who also worked with Allan. Amazing to watch
the actor networks over time!
mike