Design Research Now: Essays and Selected Projects

✍ Scribed by Ralf Michel (auth.), Ralf Michel (eds.)

• Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 214
• Series: Board of International Research in Design
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-13
Introduction....Pages 15-19
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
The Uneasy Relationship between Design and Design Research....Pages 25-39
From a Design Science to a Design Discipline: Understanding Designerly Ways of Knowing and Thinking....Pages 41-54
Strategies of Design Research: Productive Science and Rhetorical Inquiry....Pages 55-66
Design Research, an Oxymoron?....Pages 67-80
Doing Design as a Part of Doing Research....Pages 81-91
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
Shape of Things to Come....Pages 99-116
For Inspiration Only....Pages 119-132
Research through Design: a Camera Case Study....Pages 135-154
Emerging User Demands for Sustainable Solutions, EMUDE....Pages 157-179
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Design Research and its Meaning to the Methodological Development of the Discipline....Pages 187-206
Design as Practice, Science and Research....Pages 207-218
Design Semiotics — Institutional Experiences and an Initiative for a Semiotic Theory of Form....Pages 219-232
Design Research for Sustainable Social Innovation....Pages 233-245
Back Matter....Pages 251-254

✦ Subjects

Design, general