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In a way this creates a real problem—this larger notion of an armature around which all of the other companies have been talking about research for us. This is really critical to bring into the discussion if design is going to be a research agenda. There really needs to be a way to endow or to fund the research component in universities. We can have fellowships or research students, master’s students, or PhD students who would actually be focused on collaborative research agendas or specific kinds of questions. Every one of them, 25 plus kind of doctorate programs around the country, all suffer from this research problem. The problem is one of research and the relationship of doing it at work. We really need to find a dissemination mechanism. We realize this is in progress but if you look at architecture, specifically, as a discipline, there's only one nationwide publication. We all know what the publication is. Some of us read it and some of us don't because it actually does not necessarily address things that are for our community relationship to the discipline. So the magazine is somewhat connected with this notion of a shared portal. We can really get across the barrier of the academy and practice the moment we have a portal where there is this dissemination process that actually feeds both into the academy and into the profession. There's the issue about the funding research of practice. It's coming up in various conversations. We are talking about something that the AIA can actually do, and this is talked about in other forms. It is actually the advocacy kind of connection and has the leverage to really be a voice to federal agencies and other foundations about the importance of research and how architecture contributes to this larger integrative, multidisciplinary kind of agenda. We may not have the capacity to have a significant impact but if a dialogue is carried on in a multidisciplinary type of focus, there is likely to be more capacity. Not all schools, nor all practices, actually need to be structured in this way. This is an acknowledgement that certain schools are going to be much more focused in a research agenda and certain practices as well are focused in that kind of way. |
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