Design research now : essays and selected projects / edited by Ralf Michel ; Board of International Research in Design, BIRD.
Contributor(s): Michel, Ralf [editor.]
| Board of International Research in Design.
Material type: 
BookPublisher: Basel, Switzerland ; Boston : Birkhäuser, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 254 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783764384715 (paperback); 3764384719 (paperback).Subject(s): Design -- Research | Industrial design -- ResearchDDC classification: 745.2 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 745.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00161935 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The latest trends in design research
Design is becoming a recognised academic discipline, and design research is the driving force behind this transformation. Design Research Now - Essays and Selected Projectscharts the field of design research with introductory essays andselected research projects. The authors of the essays, all leadinginternational design scholars, stake out positions on the most importantissues of design research. They locate the significance of designresearch at the interface with technological development, describe whatmakes it a necessary ingredient of the continued development of thedesign disciplines, and assign it a seminal role in the relevantdevelopments of society.
The essays are supplemented by thepresentation of recently completed research projects from universitiesin the Netherlands, the UK and Italy.
Includes bibliographical references.
Essays I: The uneasy relationship between design and design research / Gui Bonsiepe -- From a design science to a design discipline: understanding designerly ways of knowing and thinking / Nigel Cross -- Strategies of design research: productive science and rhetorical inquiry / Richard Buchanan -- Design research, an oxymoran / Klaus Krippendorff -- Doing research as a part of doing research / Pieter Jan Stappers -- Research -- Shape of things to come / Paul Chamberlain, Peter Gardner, Rebecca Lawton -- For inspiration only / Ianus Keller -- Research through design: a camera case study / Joep Frens -- Emerging user demands for sustainable solutions, EMUDE / Ezio Manzini, Anna Meroni -- Essays II: Design research and its meaning to the methodological development of the discipline / Wolfgang Jonas -- Design as practice, science and research / Beat Schneider -- Design semiotics - institutional experiences and an initiative for a semiotic theory of form / Susann Vihma -- Design research for sustainable social innovation / Ezio Manzini.
CIT Module ARCH 8021 - Core reading.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Ralf Michel, Academy of Art and Design, Basel, Switzerland