About the epistemological conditions for Design-Driven research

In an attempt to clarify the conditions of the diverse approaches to Design Driven Doctoral Research (DDDr) in the CA2RE+ project, we invited the CA2RE+ partners to review their statements on the conference themes Comparison and Reflection that they had contributed to the Milan and Hamburg events. We as editors highlighted those sentences in the texts that we understood to be the most relevant and distinct thesis and asked the authors to sharpen them focusing on the specific research idea and process, the nature and format of the knowledge that is produced and the employed methodology. In the following introductory dialogue, we —Matthias Ballestrem and Fabrizia Berlingieri — follow recurring aspects, difficulties and observations in order to visualize the common ground of the DDDr landscape in CA2RE+. We think that the few highlighted conceptual nodes can contribute to a more general reframing of the project, and to its final steps of Reformulation and Recommendation.