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 thirty-eight 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 four 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, and 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 [form the back cover].

Contents:

Notes on the contributors;

Introduction to the second edition - Paul A. Rodgers and Joyce Yee;

Part I
Exploring design research;

1. The sometimes uncomfortable marriages of design and research - Ranulph Glanville;

2. A cybernetic model of design research towards a trans-domain of knowing - Wolfgang Jonas;

3. Inclusive design research and design’s moral foundation - Jude Chua Soo Meng;

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 marginalized publics - Rathna Ramanathan;

7. Phoneticians, Phoenicians and mapping design 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 Joseph Lindley;

Part II
Designing design research;

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 and 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 and Carlos Mourão Pereira;

17. The soul of objects, an anthropological view of design - Luján Cambariere;

18. Exploring research space in fashion: A framework for meaning-making - Harah Chon;

Part III
Conducting design research;

19. Drawing out: How designers analyse written texts in visual ways - Zoë Sadokierski and Kate Sweetapple;

20. A photograph is still evidence of nothing but itself - Craig Bremner and Mark Roxburgh;

21. Action research approach in design research - Beatrice Villari;

22. Woven decolonizing approaches to design research: Jolobil and Mahi-Toi - Diana Albarrán González and Jani K. T. Wilson;

23. Participation Otherwise: More than southerning the world, designing in movement - Barbara Szaniecki and 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:

29. Physical thinking: Textile making toward transdisciplinary design research - Elizabeth Gaston and Jane Scott;

30. People-centred engagement for inclusive material innovation in healthcare - Laura Salisbury and 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 and Angie Tangaere;

33. Collective dreaming through speculative fiction: Developing research worldviews with an interdisciplinary team - Daijiro Mizuno, Kazutoshi Tsuda, Kazuya Kawasaki and 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 and Keith M. Owens;

36. Probing and filming with strategic results: International design research to explore and refine new product-service concepts - Geke van Dijk and Bas Raijmakers;

37.Museum in our street: Social cohesion at street level - Emiel Rijshouwer, Dries De Roeck, Nik Baerten and Pieter Lesage;

38. GeoMerce: Speculative relationships between nature, technology and capitalism - Giovanni Innella and Gionata Gatto;

Celebrating the plurality of design research - Paul A. Rodgers and Joyce Yee.