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Design Research Now

Essays and Selected Projects
  • Edited by: Ralf Michel
  • With contributions by: Paul Chamberlain , Gui Bonsiepe , Nigel Cross , Ianus Keller , Joep Frens , Richard Buchanan , Anna Meroni , Klaus Krippendorff , Pieter Jan Stappers , Wolfgang Jonas , Beat Schneider , Susann Vihma and Ezio Manzini
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2007
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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

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Ralf Michel, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Basel, Switzerland

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    Frontmatter

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    Introduction

    15
    Ralf Michel
  • Essays I
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    The Uneasy Relationship between Design and Design Research

    25
    Gui Bonsiepe
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    From a Design Science to a Design Discipline: Understanding Designerly Ways of Knowing and Thinking

    41
    Nigel Cross
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    Strategies of Design Research: Productive Science and Rhetorical Inquiry

    55
    Richard Buchanan
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    Design Research, an Oxymoron?

    67
    Klaus Krippendorff
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    Doing Design as a Part of Doing Research

    81
    Pieter Jan Stappers
  • Research
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    Shape of Things to Come

    99
    Paul Chamberlain, Peter Gardner and Rebecca Lawton
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    For Inspiration Only

    119
    Ianus Keller
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    Research through Design: a Camera Case Study

    135
    Joep Frens
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    Emerging User Demands for Sustainable Solutions, EMUDE

    157
    Ezio Manzini and Anna Meroni
  • Essays II
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    Design Research and its Meaning to the Methodological Development of the Discipline

    187
    Wolfgang Jonas
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    Design as Practice, Science and Research

    207
    Beat Schneider
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    Design Semiotics – Institutional Experiences and an Initiative for a Semiotic Theory of Form

    219
    Susann Vihma
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    Design Research for Sustainable Social Innovation

    233
    Ezio Manzini
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    Backmatter

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eBook published on:
December 21, 2012
eBook ISBN:
9783764384722
Hardcover published on:
August 31, 2007
Hardcover ISBN:
9783764384715
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
254
Illustrations:
3
Coloured Illustrations:
30
Tables:
3
Coloured Tables:
10
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8472-2
eBook ISBN: 9783764384722
Hardcover ISBN: 9783764384715
Keywords for this book
BIRD; Design Research; Designforschung; Swiss Design Network
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