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31 August 2007

The latest trends in design research
Design is becoming a recognised academic discipline, and design research is the driving force behind this transformation. Design Research Now – Essays and Selected Projects
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.
- Situates design research within today’s design landscape
- Contains essays by leading international design scholars, including Nigel Cross, Ezio Manzini, and Gui Bonsiepe
- With examples from current research project
Ralf Michel, Academy of Art and Design, Basel, Switzerland
Gui Bonsiepe, The Uneasy Relationship between Design and Design Research
Nigel Cross, From a Design Science to a Design Discipline: Understanding Designerly Ways of Knowing and Thinking
Richard Buchanan, Strategies of Design Research: Productive Science and Rhetorical Inquiry
Klaus Krippendorff, Design Research, an Oxymoron?
Pieter Jan Stappers, Doing Design as a Part of Doing Research
Paul Chamberlain/Peter Gardner/Rebecca Lawton, Shape of Things to Come
Ianus Keller, For Inspiration Only
Joep Frens, Research Through Design: a Camera Case Study
Ezio Manzini/Anna Meroni, Emerging User Demands for Sustainable Solutions, EMUDE
Wolfgang Jonas, Design Research and its Meaning to the Methodological Development of the Discipline
Beat Schneider, Design as Pratice, Science, and Research
Susann Vihma, Design Semiotics – Institutional Experiences and an Initiative for a Semiotic Theory of Form
Ezio Manzini, Design Research for Sustainable Social Innovation