I just meet with Terence Rosenberg who is out here from Goldsmiths (Design), UK. We discussed his article:

‘The Reservoir: Towards a Poetic Model of Research in Design’, Working papers in Art and Design, Vol 1, The foundations of practice-based research, 2000.

I have been applying some of the ideas from this article onto my creative practice, so I was interested in meeting the author in the flesh and getting some background. A number of books came out of the discussion. Around poetic tropes: William Empson,Seven types of Ambiguities, New Directions Publishing Corporation (June 1966). A wikipedia entry on the author and the book. The book by Bill Gaver, Book of Forms which refers to Empson’s text, who is a collegue at RCA, London who specialise in interaction design along with Tony Dunne at Goldsmiths. Gaver is working with what Rosenberg described as social probes described in this paper Design, Cultural Probes, which has a direct interest in relation to a soci-political documentary approach. Other books Jean Luc Nancy, Being Singular, Plural, Stanford University Press (November 2000), and Gaston Bachelard on “resonance, reverberation, repercussion” connected with this abstract by Rosenberg, ‘Resisting Procrustes’.
Around the topic of epistemology, the position of the academy on ‘knowledge’ and the evaluation of creative practice in terms of contribution, he provides a hypothetical approach:

I believe that Bachelard’s idea of validating work according to its resonance, reverberation and repercussion marks a starting point for evolving these new validity criteria. We may also consider other praxis sensitive ideas of validity including catalytic and constructive validity. Lather’s transgressive validity criteria - voluptuous, ironic, rhizomatic and paralogic - may also provide criteria that are sensitive to the “logic of sense” of creative practice and its objects.