The Routledge Companion to Design Research
- Available for pre-order on June 27, 2023. Item will ship after July 18, 2023
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Book Description
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 over forty 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 has a 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
Introduction
Paul A. Rodgers and Joyce Yee
PART I - Exploring Design Research
The nature and process of design research; the purpose of design research; onto-epistemic perspectives
PART I Introduction
1. The sometimes uncomfortable marriages of design and research
Ranulph Glanville
2. A cybernetic model of design research: towards a trans-domain of knowing
Wolgang Jonas
3. Inclusive design research and design’s moral foundation
Jude Chua
4. Redesigning design: on pluralizing design
Adam Nocek
5. Decolonizing design research
Frederick M.C. van Amstel
6. Politics of publishing: exploring decolonial and intercultural frameworks for marginalised publics
Rathna Ramanathan
7. Phoneticians, Phoenicians and designers: mapping interdisciplinary research around a medidisciplinary sea
Graham Pullin
8. Four analytic cultures in design research
Ilpo Koskinen
9. Designing technology for more-than-human futures
Paul Coulton and Joe Lindley
PART II - Designing Design Research
Formulating research questions; conducting literature searches and reviews; developing research plans
PART II Introduction
10. What is a researchable question in design?
Meredith Davis
11. Foundational theory and methodological positioning at the outset of a design research project
Rachael Luck
12. Challenging assumptions in social design research undertaken in the global south - India
Alison Prendiville, Delina Evans and Chamithri Greru
13. Respectfully navigating the borderlands towards emergence - co-designing with Indigenous communities
Lizette Reitsma
14. An emancipatory research primer for designers
Lesley Ann Noel
15. From theory to practice: equitable approaches to design research in the design thinking process
Nneka Sobers & Stephanie Parey
16. Re-articulating prevailing notions of design: about designing in the absence of sight and other alternative design realities
Ann Heylighen, Greg Nijs & Carlos Mourão Pereira
17. The soul of objects, an anthropological view of design
Luján Cambariere
18. Exploring research space in fashion: a framework of meaning-making
Harah Chon
PART III - Conducting Design Research
Asking questions; data collection methods; analysing information; ethical issues
PART III Introduction
19. Drawing out: how designers analyze written texts in visual ways
Zoë Sadokierski & Kate Sweetapple
20. A photograph is still evidence of nothing but itself
Craig Bremner & Mark Roxburgh
21. Action research approach in design research
Beatrice Villari
22. Woven decolonizing approaches to design research: Jolobil and Mahi-Toi
Diana Albarrán Gonzalez & Jani Wilson
23. Participation Otherwise: more than southerning the world, designing in movement
Barbara Szaniecki & Zoy Anastassakis
24. The role of prototypes and frameworks for structuring explorations by research through design
Pieter Jan Stappers, Froukje Sleeswijk Visser and Ianus Keller
25. Imagining a feeling-thinking design practice and research from Latin America
María Cristina Ibarra
26. Hacktivism as design research method
Otto von Busch
27. Software Ate Design: creation and destruction of value through design research with data
Chris Speed
28. Working with patient experience
Alison Thomson
PART IV - Translating Design Research
Embarking on transdisciplinary design research, conducting and communicating design research insights, findings, and results effectively; disseminating for impact.
PART IV Introduction
29. Physical thinking: textile making towards transdisciplinary design research
Elizabeth Gaston & Jane Scott
30. People-centred engagement for inclusive material Innovation in healthcare
Laura Salisbury & Chris McGinley
31. Seeing the invisible: revisiting the value of critical tools in design research for social change
Laura Santamaria
32. Practice-based evidence for social innovation: working and learning in complexity
Penny Hagen & Angie Tangaere
33. Collective Dreaming through speculative fiction: developing research worldviews with an interdisciplinary team
Daijiro Mizuno, Kazutoshi Tsuda, Kazuya Kawasaki & Kazunari Masutani
34. Drifting walls: learning from a hybrid design practice
Ruth Morrow
35. Bridging gaps in understanding between researchers who possess design knowledge and those who do not
Michael R. Gibson & Keith M. Owens
36. Probing and filming with strategic results: international design research to explore and refine new product-service concepts
Geke van Dijk & Bas Raijmakers
37. Museum in our Street: social cohesion at street level
Emiel Rijshouwer, Dries De Roeck, Nik Baerten & Pieter Lesage
38. GeoMerce: speculative relationships between nature, technology and capitalism
Giovanni Innella & Gionata Gatto
Celebrating the Plurality of Design Research
Paul A. Rodgers & Joyce Yee
Editor(s)
Biography
Paul A. Rodgers is Professor of Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management at Strathclyde University, UK. He holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Design from Middlesex University and a PhD in Product Design Assessment from the University of Westminster. His research explores the discipline of design and how disruptive design interventions can enact positive change in health and social care and elsewhere.
Joyce Yee is a Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University Design School, UK. She holds a BFA in Graphic Design, an MA in Visual Communication and a PhD in Design. Her research focuses on the role, value and impact of design in areas of service design and social innovation. She is also interested in the role of practice as a form of inquiry and the inherent ‘messiness’ of design methods.