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Design is becoming a recognised academic discipline, and design research is the driving force behind this transformation. Design Research Now – Essays and Selected Projects charts the field of design research with introductory essays and selected research projects. The authors of the essays, all leading international design scholars, stake out positions on the most important issues of design research. They locate the significance of design research at the interface with technological development, describe what makes it a necessary ingredient ofthe continued development of the design disciplines, and assign it a seminal role in the relevant developments of society.

The essays are supplemented by the presentation of recently completed research projects from universities in the Netherlands, the UK and Italy.

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Introduction

Michel Ralf

15-19

The uneasy relationship between design and design research

Bonsiepe Gui

25-39

From a design science to a design discipline

Cross Nigel

41-54

Strategies of design research

Buchanan Richard

55-66

Design research, an oxymoron?

Krippendorff Klaus

67-80

Doing design as a part of doing research

Stappers Pieter Jan

81-91

Shape of things to come

Chamberlain Paul; Gardner Peter; Lawton Rebecca

99-116

For inspiration only

Keller Ianus

119-132

Research through design

Frens Joep

135-154

Emerging user demands for sustainable solutions, EMUDE

Manzini Ezio; Meroni Anna

157-179

Design research and its meaning to the methodological development of the discipline

Jonas Wolfgang

187-206

Design as practice, science and research

Schneider Beat

207-218

Design semiotics — institutional experiences and an initiative for a semiotic theory of form

Vihma Susann

219-232

Design research for sustainable social innovation

Manzini Ezio

233-245