NERD – New Experimental Research in Design

✍ Scribed by Michael Erlhoff (editor); Wolfgang Jonas (editor)

• Publisher: Birkhäuser
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 240
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

New approaches in design research

Design has long expressed and established itself as an independent research competence – a fact that also companies, institutions and politicians have come to acknowledge. What is still needed, however, is a stronger public platform for design to confidently reflect upon this process and to establish and communicate the specific innovative and experimental dimension of design research. For this reason, BIRD, the Board of International Research in Design, has developed the New Experimental Research in Design / NERD format. The edited conference contributions of twelve young researchers from all over the world provide an impressive and diverse and insightful range of intelligent and inspiring approaches in design research, giving rise to further debate and action in the rapidly evolving field.

• Inspiring approaches in design research
• International projects

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
On Design, Research and Pudding: An Essayistic Introduction
Some Additional Remarks on Rigour and/or Relevance in Design Research
Situating Design in the Confluence of Playfulness, Ageing, and Social Transformation
Means of Digital Images
Freedom to Make: Radical Mundanity and its Anarchic Undertones in Female Making Practice
Following the Elephant-Nosed Fish: Making Things More Complicated as a Form of Resistance
The Epistemic Potential of Architectural Design: Investigating the Complex Problem of Urban Sustainability Through Spatial Practice
Co.Making – Design Participation in Transformation? An Experimental-Programmatic Research
Don’t Take out the Trash: Research Through Conceptual Designs in Design Education
Exceptional Futures vs. Exceptions to the Future: A Pataphysical Approach to Design Fiction
Utopia and Uchronia: A New Experimental Approach in Thinking about Time
Performative Dynamics in Designerly Economics
Cultural Stereotypes in Letter Forms in Public Space
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