ABSTRACT
The Routledge Companion to Design Research offers a comprehensive examination of design research, celebrating the plurality of design research and the wide range of conceptual, methodological, technological and theoretical approaches evident in contemporary design research.
This volume comprises 39 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 will have 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|92 pages
What is design research?
chapter 6|15 pages
Exploring Research Space in Fashion
part II|116 pages
How do we embark on design research?
chapter 8|13 pages
Re-Articulating Prevailing Notions of Design
chapter 11|9 pages
Towards the Formulation of a Research Question
part III|114 pages
How do We Conduct Design Research?
chapter 19|12 pages
Creative Designerly Mapping
chapter 22|15 pages
The Visual Thinking Method
part IV|86 pages
How do we communicate design research?
chapter 27|18 pages
Depiction as Theory and Writing by Practice
chapter 29|12 pages
Communicating Design Research
chapter 30|14 pages
Making Meaning Happen Between ‘US’ and ‘THEM’
chapter 31|15 pages
Meaningful Play
part V|103 pages
Examples of Design Research?