Unfortunately I could not go to both of the lectures, I could just attend to the one that Haibo held.

I do not consider that Habio talked exclusively about design research, which was the theme for this week. I actually do not consider that he actually talked much about research at all. Instead he spent a lot of time talking about how to define a problem and what is a problem. For example he mentioned that it is more important to spend a lot of the time on defining the problem rather than solve it (he called this the Habio theory). According to the Haibo theory, 90% of the time should be spent on defining the problem and 10% should be spent trying to solve it.

During the lecture he also mentioned that it is important to be realistic when talking about problems and solutions. He also told a story about if a professor and a student met a bear, the student did not have to be able to outrun the bear. The student just had to be able to outrun the professor to survive. I think that what Haibo tried to say with this story is that the same problem has different solutions depending on who is looking at it.

This weeks lecture and literature did not give me much new knowledge. But instead it was a reminder that is it important to have a well defined problem. Usually it is harder to find a very well formulated problem, than to actually solve it. Therefore it was good that Haibo mentioned this again. Also it is important to remember that not everybody that works with the problem do have the same background, and depending of whom you talk to, the solution might be different. This is something that also was mentioned during the weeks when Dalhberg held the seminars. That this topic is mentioned over and over again shows the importance of have it in mind. But personally I think that it would have been interesting if the person holding the lecture did mention new topics.