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Michel, Ralf

Design Research Now : essays and selected projects / Ralf Michel - Boston : Birkhäuser, ©2007 - 254p. : illustrations (some color). 24cm. - Board of International Research in Design .

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 oxymoron? / Klaus Krippendorff --
Doing design as a part of doing research / Pieter Jan Stappers --
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 solution, EMUDE / Ezio Manzini, Anna Meroni --
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

Design is becoming a recognized academic discipline, and design research is the driving force behind this transformation. This book charts the field of design research with introductory essays and selected research projects.

ISBN: 9783764384715

Publisher. No.: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors :7/22 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Graphic arts
Design -- Research.
Industrial design -- Research.
Design -- Recherche
Design -- Forschung

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Decorative arts

Dewey Class. No.: 745.4072 MIC