The Routledge Companion to 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 design's 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