design fast and die young!

>>this same lecture made me think about this currently popular approach to design practice as "research". they reported me about the lecture given by vinni maas (i don't really know how to write that name and i'm really not interested to find it out, so i'm writing this unnecessary sentence), he was mentioning some of their works as "research", and actually he was using the phrase "fundamental research" as a goal.. (what is fundamental research anyway? physics?).. but no, i'm on the optimistic side on this issue too.. many of the new and young design offices name themselves as institutions of research, and why not? andrasek likened our current situation in design to the condition of music in 60s and 70s, this was interesting.. break the ground, try something new and always explore, get some of the most exciting therefore eternal results... a time of injections, a time of turmoil, lots of different approaches and techniques, innumerable possibilities... the ground is so fertile, with new techniques and ideas, seed it.. she was joking that, just a few years ago parametric approaches were quite new and exciting "believe it or not".. look at the speed! live fast and die young. and research in this context is not academic research for sure, no, maas was wrong when he was utilising his extremely flexible architect mind, and equalizing all of what is called research... this design, this type of 'design research', is not in the vein of the sciences that try to understand process of designing, or effects of designed environment, or it's cultural, political, historical connotations, no, it is the search for finding new and relatively less explored ways of designing, and whenever a method is used, then it immediately gets boring... this is not research as we generally understand the term, it's exploration?