Permission to muck about, knowledge, and the grammar of intuition: exploring the value of design research, practice, tacit knowledge and night science through documentary film

Lindley, Joseph ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5527-3028; Green, David Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3256-8640. 2024 Permission to muck about, knowledge, and the grammar of intuition: exploring the value of design research, practice, tacit knowledge and night science through documentary film. In: HTTF '24: Halfway to the Future, Santa Cruz, USA, 21 - 23 Oct 2024. New York, USA, Association for Computing Machinery, 1-8.

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Abstract/Summary

This paper reports on the process of making Permission to Muck About, a documentary film that explores the value of Design Research. It contrasts how science, design, art, and craft make knowledge. Before long, the film confronts the question of how we know anything at all and what mechanisms drive our assessments of the quality, originality, validity, rigour, and relevance of our research. While the answers to these questions are plural and fluid, characterised by the tensions of consensus/dissensus and healthy discussion/unhealthy derision, the challenge of navigating this landscape can frustrate and suppress great research. Based on a wide range of interviews, field research, and the creative process of crafting a coherent narrative, the film explores an often-hidden grammar of intuition, it frames a deep-rooted but under-exposed reliance on tacit knowledge and practical experience, and it concludes with an assertion that our research community—and the world in general—could benefit from a minor readjustment in the overarching epistemic commitments; we need more permission to muck about.

Item Type:	Publication - Conference Item (Paper)
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1145/3686169.3686175
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Pollution (Science Area 2017-24)
ISBN:	9798400710421
Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:	Open Access paper - full text available via Official URL link.
Additional Keywords:	design research, research through design, knowledge, tacit knowledge, intermediate knowledge
NORA Subject Terms:	Computer Science Data and Information
Date made live:	03 Feb 2025 12:12 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/538840

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