1st Edition
Navigating the Landscapes of Design Research Finding Your Way
Introduction
Michael R. Gibson and Keith M. Owens
1. Why We Need Design Research Now More Than Ever
Michael R. Gibson and Keith M. Owens
2. Adaptation to Context: Design Research Evolves to Serve Design Practices
Peter Hayward Jones
3. Understanding what design research IS and is NOT
Michael R. Gibson and Keith M. Owens
4. Mapping Curiosity
Cassini Nazir
5. Design Research Activity: Actions and Subjects of Study
Michael R. Gibson and Keith M. Owens
6. Visualizing Confidence in Intelligence Analysis: A Case of Design Exploration in Interdisciplinary Research
Matthew Peterson and Helen Armstrong
7. Design Research into Action: Exploring Evidence-Based Design (EBD) and Related Interpretivist Approaches to Discovery, Decision and Agency
Michael R. Gibson and Keith M. Owens
8. Emergent Design Research: Reconceiving Biodesign-in-Action
Leslie Atzmon and Diana Nicholas
9. Expanding the Domains of Design Decision-Making and Practice
Michael R. Gibson and Keith M. Owens
10. A Position Paper: Cultivating Attunement to the Raw Materials of Problem Formulation
Dennis Cheatham
11. Design Research and Practice Responsibility: Accounting for Ourselves, Our Creations and Others
Michael R. Gibson and Keith M. Owens
A Summative Conclusion
Michael R. Gibson and Keith M. Owens
Biography
Michael R. Gibson is a Professor of Communication Design at The University of North Texas, U.S.A, who has led graduate programs in design research and interaction design. Gibson’s investigations have yielded positive outcomes in the facilitation of healthcare on behalf of children and older adults, and regarding the development and implementation of design processes in the K–12 education space.
Keith M. Owens’ experiences as a design researcher and Professor of Communication Design at The University of North Texas, U.S.A, have afforded him opportunities to blend his extensive, experiential knowledge of professional design with his scholarship in ways that have allowed him to address a wide variety of issues in and around socially focused design practice.
