Design as Research (eBook)

Positions, Arguments, Perspectives

Gesche Joost, Katharina Bredies, Michelle Christensen, Florian Conradi, Andreas Unteidig (Herausgeber)

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2016
240 Seiten
Birkhäuser (Verlag)
978-3-0356-0738-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Are there differences between design practice and the practice of design research? What alliances between text and artefact are possible in the search for new knowledge? How does design research translate and transform theories and methods from other disciplines? Is design research moving towards becoming a formal discipline and, if so, would this really be an advantage?

16 international authors address these four different aspects in the form of personal statements, and 19 researchers share their reflections based on their experience of having carried out a practice-based PhD.

This book investigates the status quo of things in the multi-faceted and constantly evolving field of design research, and outlines the elementary issues faced by researchers. The compendium is a survey of a fast-growing field and, at the same time, provides pointers for personal orientation.

With statements from: Uta Brandes, Rachel Cooper, Clive Dilnot, Michael Erlhoff, Alain Findeli, Bill Gaver, Ranulph Glanville, Matthias Held, Wolfgang Jonas, Klaus Krippendorff, Claudia Mareis, Mike Press, Elizabeth B.-N. Sanders, Arne Scheuermann, Cameron Tonkinwise, Brigitte Wolf

Gesche Joost, Katharina Bredies, Michelle Christensen, Florian Conradi, Andreas Unteidig, Universität der Künste Berlin

Autoren

lt;P>Gesche Joost, Katharina Bredies, Michelle Christensen, Florian Conradi, Andreas Unteidig, Berlin University of the Arts

Gesche Joost, Katharina Bredies, Michelle Christensen, Florian Conradi, Andreas Unteidig, Universität der Künste Berlin

Inhalt

Contents 4
Foreword BIRD 7
Design / Research 11
Introduction 12
Where Are We Going? An Aspirational Map 17
The Resourceful Social Expert: Defining the Future Craft of Design Research 22
The Myth of the Design Androgyne 28
Doing Research: Design Research in the Context of the ‘Practice Turn’ 35
Project-Grounded Responses: Design / Research 42
Text / Object 59
Introduction 60
Communication in Design Research 64
Text vs. Artefact in Design Research? A Strange Question! 70
Nothing Fixed: An Essay on Fluidity in Design Research 77
Everyday Homeopathy in Practice-Changing Design Research 83
Project-Grounded Responses: Text / Object 91
Visual Stances 107
Borrowing / Stealing 127
Introduction 128
Design Research – No Boundaries 131
Theories and Methods in Design Research – Why We Should Discuss Concrete Projects 137
In Praise of Theft: ‘The Play with Borrowing vs. Stealing from other Fields’ … Or, the Problem of Design Research 143
Design Prepositions 153
Project-Grounded Responses: Borrowing / Stealing 166
Discipline / Indiscipline 181
Introduction 182
Transdisciplinary Research through Design – Shifting Paradigms as an Opportunity 186
Indiscipline 193
Design, an Undisciplinable Profession 197
Between Possibility and Discipline or: Design Research as Provocation to the Faint-Hearted 207
Project-Grounded Responses: Discipline / Indiscipline 212
Authors 227
Responders 235

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.4.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Board of International Research in Design
• Verlagsort: Basel/Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Disziplin • practice turn • Transdisziplinarität
• ISBN-10: 3-0356-0738-9 / 3035607389
• ISBN-13: 978-3-0356-0738-3 / 9783035607383