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Design Research, an Oxymoron?

  • Klaus Krippendorff
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Design Research Now
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter 1
  2. Introduction 15
  3. Essays I
  4. The Uneasy Relationship between Design and Design Research 25
  5. From a Design Science to a Design Discipline: Understanding Designerly Ways of Knowing and Thinking 41
  6. Strategies of Design Research: Productive Science and Rhetorical Inquiry 55
  7. Design Research, an Oxymoron? 67
  8. Doing Design as a Part of Doing Research 81
  9. Research
  10. Shape of Things to Come 99
  11. For Inspiration Only 119
  12. Research through Design: a Camera Case Study 135
  13. Emerging User Demands for Sustainable Solutions, EMUDE 157
  14. Essays II
  15. Design Research and its Meaning to the Methodological Development of the Discipline 187
  16. Design as Practice, Science and Research 207
  17. Design Semiotics – Institutional Experiences and an Initiative for a Semiotic Theory of Form 219
  18. Design Research for Sustainable Social Innovation 233
  19. Backmatter 251
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8472-2_5

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter 1
  2. Introduction 15
  3. Essays I
  4. The Uneasy Relationship between Design and Design Research 25
  5. From a Design Science to a Design Discipline: Understanding Designerly Ways of Knowing and Thinking 41
  6. Strategies of Design Research: Productive Science and Rhetorical Inquiry 55
  7. Design Research, an Oxymoron? 67
  8. Doing Design as a Part of Doing Research 81
  9. Research
  10. Shape of Things to Come 99
  11. For Inspiration Only 119
  12. Research through Design: a Camera Case Study 135
  13. Emerging User Demands for Sustainable Solutions, EMUDE 157
  14. Essays II
  15. Design Research and its Meaning to the Methodological Development of the Discipline 187
  16. Design as Practice, Science and Research 207
  17. Design Semiotics – Institutional Experiences and an Initiative for a Semiotic Theory of Form 219
  18. Design Research for Sustainable Social Innovation 233
  19. Backmatter 251
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