Michael R. Gibson – författare

This book provides emerging and established designers and design educators, along with their collaborators, with a means to understand how and why the landscape of design research has come to exist as it does, and how and why its various destinations and pathways are connected.It is an accessible “guide” for those in and around design who have little to no experience with planning and conducting research to inform their decision-making. Specifically, this book makes the case that an integration of research and design is critical in a world shaped by an increasingly complex and pervasive amalgam of challenges: social, technological, environmental, economic, and political. The need to expand shared understandings of research has also become acute because this landscape is increasingly traversed by those who are seeking evidence-based outcomes to their needs rather than solutions shaped by aesthetic polish, subjective client demands, or simple cost-benefit formulas.This book will be of interest to scholars and designers working in design studies and design research, as well as to design practitioners who are increasingly called upon to understand and act on data gleaned from evidence-based research.

Dialectic is a fully open access, biannual journal devoted to the criticalexamination of issues that affect design education, research,and inquiry into their effects on the practice of design. MichiganPublishing, the hub of scholarly publishing at the University of Michigan,publishes Dialectic on behalf of the AIGA (American Institute ofGraphic Arts) Design Educators Community (DEC).

Dialectic is a fully open access, biannual journal devoted to the criticalexamination of issues that affect design education, research,and inquiry into their effects on the practice of design. MichiganPublishing, the hub of scholarly publishing at the University of Michigan,publishes Dialectic on behalf of the AIGA (American Institute ofGraphic Arts) Design Educators Community (DEC).

Dialectic seeks to publish scholarship, analytical study and criticism that will enlighten and inform a diverse audience of design educators engaged not only in classroom teaching experiences but also in differing forms of research and professional practice. The journal's advisory and editorial boards recognize that design education, along with design research and professional practice, exist in relationships that are now broadly informed by theoretical frameworks and applications of knowledge derived from the social and applied sciences, the humanities, and other professions such as business, education, information technology and media studies. The outcomes of these synergies often result in the invention, discovery, understanding, and dissemination of new knowledge, innovation, and best practices.