| Description |
254 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Ralf Michel -- Essays I -- The Uneasy Relationship between Design and Design Research / Gui Bonsiepe -- From a Design Science to a Design Discipline: Understanding Designerly Ways of Knowing and Thinking / Nigel Cross -- Strategies of Design Research: Productive Science and Rhetorical Inquiry / Richard Buchanan -- Design Research, an Oxymoron ? / Klaus Krippendorff -- Doing Design as a Part of Doing Research / Pieter Jan Stappers -- Research -- Shape of Things to Come / Paul Chamberlain, Peter Gardner, Rebecca Lawton -- For Inspiration Only / Ianus Keller -- Research through Design: a Camera Case Study / Joep Frens -- Emerging User Demands for Sustainable Solutions, EMUDE / Ezio Manzini, Anna Meroni -- Essays II -- Design Research and its Meaning to the Methodological Development of the Discipline / Wolfgang Jonas -- Design as Practice, Science and Research / Beat Schneider -- Design Semiotics Institutional Experiences and an Initiative for a Semiotic Theory of Form / Susann Vihma -- Design Research for Sustainable Social Innovation / Ezio Manzini -- Biographies |
| Summary |
"Design is becoming a recognised academic discipline, and design research is the driving force behind this transformation. 'Design Research Now' 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." -- Publisher's website |
| Notes |
"Board of International research in Design"--On cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Electronic version is available via SpringerLink |
| Subject |
Design -- Research.
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Industrial design -- Research.
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Design.
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| Author |
Michel, Ralf, 1964-
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Board of International Research in Design.
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| LC no. |
2007931249 |
| ISBN |
9783764384715 (paperback) |
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