Design Research Through Practice

From the Lab, Field, and Showroom
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-12-385502-2
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 451 g

Design Research Through Practice: From the Lab, Field, and Showroom focuses on one type of contemporary design research known as constructive design research. It looks at three approaches to constructive design research: Lab, Field, and Showroom. The book shows how theory, research practice, and the social environment create commonalities between these approaches. It illustrates how one can successfully integrate design and research based on work carried out in industrial design and interaction design.

The book begins with an overview of the rise of constructive design research, as well as constructive research programs and methodologies. It then describes the logic of studying design in the laboratory, design ethnography and field work, and the origins of the Showroom and its foundation on art and design rather than on science or the social sciences. It also discusses the theoretical background of constructive design research, along with modeling and prototyping of design items. Finally, it considers recent work in Lab that focuses on action and the body instead of thinking and knowing.

Many kinds of designers and people interested in design will find this book extremely helpful.

Zielgruppe

<p>Primary markets are researchers in product development in global companies and students and researchers in design universities. Today this market is concentrated in North America and Europe, but it is becoming global with schools and companies from Japan, Korea and Singapore prepping up their design and teaching practices.</p> <p>Secondary markets are in engineering and software schools taking a more practical orientation towards innovation. This category also includes also media and business schools, where design science is currently gaining ground.</p>

Autoren/Hrsg.

Koskinen, Ilpo

Redstrom, Johan

Zimmerman, John

Binder, Thomas

Wensveen, Stephan

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Interface Design, Interaktionsdesign, Application Design
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Produktdesign, Industriedesign
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion User Interface Design & Benutzerfreundlichkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Forschung & Entwicklung (F&E), Innovation
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Konstruktionslehre und -technik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Jane Fulton Suri

Preface

Chapter 1: Constructive Design Research

Chapter 2: The Coming Age of Constructive Design Research

Chapter 3: Research Programs

Chapter 4: Lab: Can You Really Study Design in a Laboratory?

Chapter 5: Field: How to Follow Design through Society

Chapter 6: Showroom: Research Meets Design and Art

Chapter 7: How to Work with Theory

Chapter 8: Design Things: Models, Scenarios, Prototypes

Chapter 9: Constructive Design Research in Society

Chapter 10: Building Research Programs