Design As Research : Positions, Arguments, Perspectives.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword BIRD -- Design / Research -- Introduction -- Where Are We Going? An Aspirational Map -- The Resourceful Social Expert: Defining the Future Craft of Design Research -- The Myth of the Design Androgyne -- Doing Research: Design Research in the Context of the 'Practice Turn' -- Project-Grounded Responses: Design / Research -- Text / Object -- Introduction -- Communication in Design Research -- Text vs. Artefact in Design Research? A Strange Question! -- Nothing Fixed: An Essay on Fluidity in Design Research -- Everyday Homeopathy in Practice-Changing Design Research -- Project-Grounded Responses: Text / Object -- Visual Stances -- Borrowing / Stealing -- Introduction -- Design Research - No Boundaries -- Theories and Methods in Design Research - Why We Should Discuss Concrete Projects -- In Praise of Theft: 'The Play with Borrowing vs. Stealing from other Fields' … Or, the Problem of Design Research -- Design Prepositions -- Project-Grounded Responses: Borrowing / Stealing -- Discipline / Indiscipline -- Introduction -- Transdisciplinary Research through Design - Shifting Paradigms as an Opportunity -- Indiscipline -- Design, an Undisciplinable Profession -- Between Possibility and Discipline or: Design Research as Provocation to the Faint-Hearted -- Project-Grounded Responses: Discipline / Indiscipline -- Authors -- Responders.

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