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 thirty-eight 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 four 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, and 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.
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.
Introduction to the second edition PART I - Exploring design research
The nature and process of design research; the purpose of design research;
onto-epistemic perspectives
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 designs moral
foundation
4. "Redesigning design: On pluralizing design"
5. Decolonizing
design research
6. Politics of publishing: Exploring decolonial and
intercultural frameworks for marginalized publics
7. Phoneticians,
Phoenicians and mapping design 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
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
19.
Drawing out: How designers analyse 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.
29. Physical thinking: Textile making toward 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
Paul A. Rodgers is Professor of Design in the Department of Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. He holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Design from Middlesex University and a PhD in Product Design from the University of Westminster, London. His research interests explore the discipline of design and how disruptive design interventions can enact positive change in health and social care and elsewhere. From 2017 to 2021, he held the post of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Priority Area Leadership Fellowship in Design in the UK.
Joyce Yee is Professor of Design and Social Innovation at Northumbria University, UK. She co-founded the Designing Entangled Social Innovation in Asia-Pacific network (www.desiap.org) in 2015 with Dr Yoko Akama, RMIT in Australia, as a peer learning network for designing social innovation practitioners. Her research focusses on culturally diverse and locally relevant practices that challenge the dominant industrialized and Western-centric models of design.
