Nothing Fixed: An Essay on Fluidity in Design Research

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 4
3. Foreword BIRD 7
4. Design / Research
5. Introduction 12
6. Where Are We Going? An Aspirational Map 17
7. The Resourceful Social Expert: Defining the Future Craft of Design Research 22
8. The Myth of the Design Androgyne 28
9. Doing Research: Design Research in the Context of the ‘Practice Turn’ 35
10. Project-Grounded Responses: Design / Research 42
11. Text / Object
12. Introduction 60
13. Communication in Design Research 64
14. Text vs. Artefact in Design Research? A Strange Question! 70
15. Nothing Fixed: An Essay on Fluidity in Design Research 77
16. Everyday Homeopathy in Practice-Changing Design Research 83
17. Project-Grounded Responses: Text / Object 91
18. Borrowing / Stealing
19. Introduction 128
20. Design Research – No Boundaries 131
21. Theories and Methods in Design Research – Why We Should Discuss Concrete Projects 137
22. In Praise of Theft: ‘The Play with Borrowing vs. Stealing from other Fields’ … Or, the Problem of Design Research 143
23. Design Prepositions 153
24. Project-Grounded Responses: Borrowing / Stealing 166
25. Discipline / Indiscipline
26. Introduction 182
27. Transdisciplinary Research through Design – Shifting Paradigms as an Opportunity 186
28. Indiscipline 193
29. Design, an Undisciplinable Profession 197
30. Between Possibility and Discipline or: Design Research as Provocation to the Faint-Hearted 207
31. Project-Grounded Responses: Discipline / Indiscipline 212
32. Authors 227
33. Responders 235
34. Backmatter 240