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Michael Douglas RMIT University Tracking a tram-way of knowing: poetic search and speculative design The need for design research to make its knowledge available to others predominantly has us revert to producing representations about design in the attempt to capture and communicate new design knowledge. Yet it is precisely the knowledge that is unique to design knowing that escapes such a mechanism of capture. We are presented with the challenge of organising the search of design, both as it unfolds and as it may be retrospectively encountered, in ways which illuminate tacit knowing. Poetic allegory provides clues here on modes of organising, learning and knowing which are both descriptive and demonstrative, which communicate through the resonance of both representation and miming. This paper explores issues of poetic search and speculative design through departing from tramways as a means to illuminate a non-linear designerly mode of knowing and learning organised through movement ← back | download 20 Kb pg139.zip