Routledge Companion to Design Research

Paul A. Rodgers is Professor of Design in the Department of Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. He holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Design from Middlesex University and a PhD in Product Design from the University of Westminster, London. His research interests explore the discipline of design and how disruptive design interventions can enact positive change in health and social care and elsewhere. From 2017 to 2021, he held the post of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Priority Area Leadership Fellowship in Design in the UK.Joyce Yee is Professor of Design and Social Innovation at Northumbria University, UK. She co-founded the Designing Entangled Social Innovation in Asia-Pacific network (www.desiap.org) in 2015 with Dr Yoko Akama, RMIT in Australia, as a peer learning network for designing social innovation practitioners. Her research focusses on culturally diverse and locally relevant practices that challenge the dominant industrialized and Western-centric models of design.

• 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 1. The sometimes uncomfortable marriages of design and research 2. A cybernetic model of design research: towards a trans-domain of knowing 3. Inclusive design research and design’s moral foundation 4. "Redesigning design: On pluralizing design" 5. Decolonizing design research 6. Politics of publishing: Exploring decolonial and intercultural frameworks for marginalized publics 7. Phoneticians, Phoenicians and mapping design research around a Medidisciplinary Sea 8. Four analytic cultures in design research 9. Designing technology for More-Than-Human futures PART II - Designing design research Formulating research questions; conducting literature searches and reviews; developing research plans 10. What is a researchable question in design? 11. Foundational theory and methodological positioning at the outset of a design research project 12. Challenging assumptions in social design research undertaken in the Global South - India 13. Respectfully navigating the borderlands towards emergence: Co-designing with Indigenous communities 14. An emancipatory research primer for designers 15. From theory to practice: Equitable approaches to design research in the design thinking process 16. Re-articulating prevailing notions of design: About designing in the absence of sight and other alternative design realities 17. The soul of objects, an anthropological view of design 18. Exploring research space in fashion: A framework of meaning-making PART III - Conducting design research Asking questions; data collection methods; analysing information; ethical issues 19. Drawing out: How designers analyse written texts in visual ways 20. A photograph is still evidence of nothing but itself 21. Action research approach in design research 22. Woven decolonizing approaches to design research: Jolobil and Mahi-Toi 23. Participation Otherwise: More than southerning the world, designing in movement 24. The role of prototypes and frameworks for structuring explorations by Research Through Design 25. Imagining a feeling-thinking design practice and research from Latin America 26. Hacktivism as design research method 27. Software Ate Design: Creation and destruction of value through design research with data 28. Working with patient experience PART IV - Translating design research Embarking on transdisciplinary design research, conducting and communicating design research insights, findings, and results effectively; disseminating for impact. 29. Physical thinking: Textile making toward transdisciplinary design research 30. People-centred engagement for inclusive material innovation in healthcare 31. Seeing the invisible: Revisiting the value of critical tools in design research for social change 32. Practice-based evidence for social innovation: Working and learning in complexity 33. Collective dreaming through speculative fiction: Developing research worldviews with an interdisciplinary team 34. Drifting walls - learning from a hybrid design practice 35. Bridging gaps in understanding between researchers who possess design knowledge and those who do not 36. Probing and filming with strategic results: International design research to explore and refine new product-service concepts 37. Museum in our street: Social cohesion at street level 38. GeoMerce: Speculative relationships between nature, technology and capitalism Celebrating the plurality of design research