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Companion to Design Research

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…

Design for the Unthinkable World

This project includes critical contributions from six internationally-leading design researcher/ practitioners that explore the following Design for the Unthinkable-World issues: * What is design seeking to change and why? * What needs to change? * What possibilities might there be…

Design for PLWD

The book presents a series of papers describing the latest research that shows how design thinking, making, and acting contributes to the co-design and development of products, spaces, and services with people living with dementia. We know that there is…

What Design Research Does…

Design research makes a significant contribution to the UK economy and society as a whole. Ever since the establishment of the Government Schools of Design in the nineteenth century, the UK has been widely acknowledged as an international leader in…

Adventures in Design Research…

Adventures in Design Research… tells the stories of 57 personal design researchers’ journeys. Based in universities across the UK, each one of the 57 stories portray a rich and diverse personal account of the design researcher’s journey from what they…