Design Research through Practice. From the Lab, Field, and Showroom

Design Research Through Practice......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 10
Preface......Page 14
Acknowledgments......Page 16
1. Constructive Design Research......Page 20
1.1 Beyond Research Through Design......Page 23
1.2 Constructive Research in Design Research......Page 25
1.3 What Is “Design”?......Page 26
1.4 Industrial Design and Interaction Design......Page 27
1.5 Design Research in Second Modernity......Page 28
2. The Coming Age of Constructive Design Research......Page 34
2.1 The User-Centered Turn: Searching the Middle Way......Page 37
2.2 Beyond the User......Page 41
2.2.1 Design Practice Provides Methods......Page 42
2.2.2 Turn to Technology......Page 43
2.2.3 Enter User Experience......Page 45
2.2.4 Design Tradition as Inspiration......Page 46
2.3 Between Engineering, Science, Design, and Art......Page 47
3. Research Programs......Page 58
3.1 Some Features of Constructive Research Programs......Page 59
3.2 Imagination as a Step to Preferred Situations......Page 61
3.3 Making Imagination Tangible: Workshops and Studios in Research......Page 62
3.4 How Constructive Design Research Produces Meaning......Page 63
3.5 Toward Socially Robust Knowledge......Page 66
4.1 Rich Interaction: Building a Tangible Camera......Page 70
4.2 Laboratory as a Site of Knowledge......Page 74
4.3 Experimental Control......Page 76
4.4 Physical Hypotheses and Design......Page 79
4.5 Design, Theory, and Real-World Relevance......Page 80
4.6 From Lab to Society: The Price of Decontextualization......Page 81
4.7 Program at the Junction......Page 83
5. Field: How to Follow Design Through Society......Page 88
5.1 Vila Rosário: Reframing Public Health in a Favela......Page 89
5.2 Understanding as the Basis of Design......Page 92
5.3 Exploring Context with Props......Page 94
5.4 Generating Concepts as Analysis......Page 95
5.5 Evaluation Turns into Research: Following Imaginations in the Field......Page 98
5.6 Interpretations as Precedents......Page 100
5.7 Co-Design and New Objects......Page 101
6. Showroom: Research Meets Design and Art......Page 108
6.1 The Origins of Showroom......Page 109
6.2 Agnostic Science......Page 110
6.3 Reworking Research......Page 112
6.4 Beyond Knowledge: Design for Debate......Page 113
6.5 Enriching Communication: Exhibitions......Page 114
6.6 Curators and Researchers......Page 115
6.7 How Not to Be an Artist......Page 116
6.8 Toward Post-Critical Design......Page 119
7. How to Work with Theory......Page 128
7.1 Acting in the World......Page 129
7.2 Lab: From Semantic Perception to Direct Action......Page 130
7.3 Field: You Cannot Live Alone......Page 132
7.4 Showroom: Design and Culture Under Attack......Page 135
7.5 Frameworks and Theories......Page 137
8. Design Things: Models, Scenarios, Prototypes......Page 144
8.1 User Research with Imagination......Page 145
8.2 Gaining Firsthand Insights in the Studio......Page 148
8.3 Concept Design with Moodboards, Mock-ups, and Sketches......Page 151
8.4 Prototyping......Page 153
8.5 Platforms: Taking Design into the Field......Page 156
8.6 Design Things in Research......Page 158
9.1 Luotain......Page 164
9.2 Researchers as Peers......Page 166
9.3 Research Faces Design Traditions......Page 168
9.4 New Bauhauses: Digital and Electronic......Page 170
9.5 Meet the Business......Page 172
9.6 Embracing the Public Good......Page 174
9.7 Constructive Design Research in Society......Page 177
10. Building Research Programs......Page 184
10.1 Beyond Rationalism......Page 185
10.2 Contribution and Knowledge......Page 186
10.3 How to Build Research Programs......Page 188
10.4 Inspirations and Programs......Page 190
10.5 Research Programs and Methodologies......Page 191
10.6 The Quest for a Big Context......Page 193
References......Page 198
Index......Page 218