Steadman:

1. Leslie Martin and Lionel March’s approach to land use and built form studies is a rigid example of building analysis that is predisposed for a certain type of answer. If this type of strategy provides a way to a theoretically ‘perfect’ design, why have these perfect design strategies not become the profession of architecture?
2. We are a growing population in a finite expanse of space. How can tools like ‘Spacemate’ work to act as a type of defragmenter allowing us to use space in both a more efficient way as well as a more human way?
3. The term bio-mimicry has been growing in popularity in past years. Although there may be highly refined examples of the adaptation of form and function found in nature, what are the caveats of implementing these findings past a research level?

Coyne:

1. The amount of generated knowledge that we have is ever expanding. As Coyne states, there are digital tools such as the Internet and keyword searching that are meant to increase the pace at which we consume knowledge.  At what point do we hit the speed limit on learning and how will that change how we research?
2. “Design-led research seeks to understand the world through direct intervention by the researcher, rather than through detached observation.” Doesn’t design research do both of these to a certain extent?
3. The question of ‘Identification of need’ is used by Coyle to relate design research to systems theory which follows a more linear research trajectory from need to research to solution. Does this help to bridge the design and science disciplines?