The Routledge Companion to Design Research
- 538 pages
- English
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The Routledge Companion to Design Research
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Notes on the contributors
- Introduction to the second edition
- Part I Exploring design research: The nature and process of design research; the purpose of design research; onto-epistemic perspectives
- Part II Designing design research: Formulating research questions; conducting literature searches and reviews; developing research plans
- Part III Conducting design research: Asking questions; data collection methods; analysing information; interpreting findings; ethical issues
- Part IV Translating design research: Embarking on transdisciplinary design research, conducting and communicating design research insights, findings, and results effectively; disseminating for impact
- Celebrating the plurality of design research
- Index