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Ezio Manzini Politecnico di Milano Design Research: Reasons and Possibilities The Production of a Design Knowledge: taking time in the age of real-time This paper’s aim is centred on the working hypothesis that today design research is both a necessity and a possibility: a necessity in so far as it allows to go beyond the contradiction, typical of our society, between the “call for instantaneousness” and the “call for time”, and a possibility, now made practicable by a series of different but correlated phenomena as the diffusion of information and communication technologies, the increasing levels of connectivity and the rise of the new knowledge economy. ← back | download 8 Kb pg013.zip