Design research now : essays and selected projects

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Michel, Ralf , 1964- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Basel, Switzerland Boston : Birkhauser , c2007
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The uneasy relationship between design and design research
  • 2. From a design science to a design discipline: understanding designerly ways of knowing and thinking
  • 3. Strategies of design research: productive science and rhetorical inquiry
  • 4. Design research, an Oxymoron?
  • 5. Doing design as a part of doing research
  • 6. Shape of things to come
  • 7. For inspiration only
  • 8. Research through design: a camera case study
  • 9. Emerging user demands for sustainable solutions, EMUDE
  • 10. Design research and its meaning to the methodological development of the discipline
  • 11. Design as practice, science and research
  • 12. Design semiotics - institutional experiences and an initiative for a semiotic theory of form
  • 13. Design research for sustainable social innovation