Design Research Now: Essays and Selected Projects

• Publisher: Birkhäuser
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 213
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The latest trends in design research

Design is becoming a recognised academic discipline, and design research is the driving force behind this transformation. Design Research Now – Essays and Selected Projects charts the field of design research with introductory essays and selected research projects. The authors of the essays, all leading international design scholars, stake out positions on the most important issues of design research. They locate the significance of design research at the interface with technological development, describe what makes it a necessary ingredient of the continued development of the design disciplines, and assign it a seminal role in the relevant developments of society.
The essays are supplemented by the presentation of recently completed research projects from universities in the Netherlands, the UK and Italy.

• Situates design research within today’s design landscape
• Contains essays by leading international design scholars, including Nigel Cross, Ezio Manzini, and Gui Bonsiepe
• With examples from current research projects

✦ Table of Contents

Preface BIRD
Introduction RalfMichel
Essays I The Uneasy Relationship between Design and Design Research
From a Design Science to a Design Discipline: Understanding Designerly
Ways of Knowing and Thinking
Strategies of Design Research: Productive Science and Rhetorical Inquiry
Design Research, an Oxymoron?
Doing Design as a Part of Doing Research
Pieter Jan Stappers
Research Shape of Things to Come
For Inspiration Only
Research through Design: a Camera Case Study
Emerging User Demands for Sustainable Solutions, EMUDE
Essays II Design Research and its Meaning to the Methodological Development of the Discipline
Design as Practice, Science and Research
Design Semiotics – Institutional Experiences and an Initiative for a Semiotic Theory of Form
Design Research for Sustainable Social Innovation
Biographies Authors