ABSTRACT
This new edition of The Routledge Companion to Design Research offers an updated, comprehensive examination of design research, celebrating a plurality of voices and range of conceptual, methodological, technological and theoretical approaches evident in contemporary design research.
This volume comprises over forty original and high quality design research chapters from contributors around the world, with offerings from the vast array of disciplines in and around modern design praxis, including areas such as industrial and product design, visual communication, interaction design, fashion design, service design, engineering and architecture. The Companion is divided into five distinct sections with chapters that examine the nature and process of design research, the purpose of design research, and how one might embark on design research. They also explore how leading design researchers conduct their design research through formulating and asking questions in novel ways, and the creative methods and tools they use to collect and analyse data. The Companion also includes a number of case studies that illustrate how one might best communicate and disseminate design research through contributions that offer techniques for writing and publicising research.
The Routledge Companion to Design Research has a wide appeal to researchers and educators in design and design-related disciplines such as engineering, business, marketing, computing, and will make an invaluable contribution to state-of-the-art design research at postgraduate, doctoral, and post-doctoral levels and teaching across a wide range of different disciplines.
Introduction PART I - Exploring Design Research The nature and process of design research; the purpose of design research; onto-epistemic perspectives PART I Introduction 1. The sometimes uncomfortable marriages of design and research 2. A cybernetic model of design research: towards a trans-domain of knowing 3. Inclusive design research and design’s moral foundation 4. Redesigning design: on pluralizing design 5. Decolonizing design research 6. Politics of publishing: exploring decolonial and intercultural frameworks for marginalised publics 7. Phoneticians, Phoenicians and designers: mapping interdisciplinary research around a medidisciplinary sea 8. Four analytic cultures in design research 9. Designing technology for more-than-human futures PART II - Designing Design Research Formulating research questions; conducting literature searches and reviews; developing research plans PART II Introduction 10. What is a researchable question in design? 11. Foundational theory and methodological positioning at the outset of a design research project 12. Challenging assumptions in social design research undertaken in the global south - India 13. Respectfully navigating the borderlands towards emergence - co-designing with Indigenous communities 14. An emancipatory research primer for designers 15. From theory to practice: equitable approaches to design research in the design thinking process 16. Re-articulating prevailing notions of design: about designing in the absence of sight and other alternative design realities 17. The soul of objects, an anthropological view of design 18. Exploring research space in fashion: a framework of meaning-making PART III - Conducting Design Research Asking questions; data collection methods; analysing information; ethical issues PART III Introduction 19. Drawing out: how designers analyze written texts in visual ways 20. A photograph is still evidence of nothing but itself 21. Action research approach in design research 22. Woven decolonizing approaches to design research: Jolobil and Mahi-Toi 23. Participation Otherwise: more than southerning the world, designing in movement 24. The role of prototypes and frameworks for structuring explorations by research through design 25. Imagining a feeling-thinking design practice and research from Latin America 26. Hacktivism as design research method 27. Software Ate Design: creation and destruction of value through design research with data 28. Working with patient experience PART IV - Translating Design Research Embarking on transdisciplinary design research, conducting and communicating design research insights, findings, and results effectively; disseminating for impact. PART IV Introduction 29. Physical thinking: textile making towards transdisciplinary design research 30. People-centred engagement for inclusive material Innovation in healthcare 31. Seeing the invisible: revisiting the value of critical tools in design research for social change 32. Practice-based evidence for social innovation: working and learning in complexity 33. Collective Dreaming through speculative fiction: developing research worldviews with an interdisciplinary team 34. Drifting walls: learning from a hybrid design practice 35. Bridging gaps in understanding between researchers who possess design knowledge and those who do not 36. Probing and filming with strategic results: international design research to explore and refine new product-service concepts 37. Museum in our Street: social cohesion at street level 38. GeoMerce: speculative relationships between nature, technology and capitalism Celebrating the Plurality of Design Research
