DOING RESEARCH IN DESIGN

• Main Authors: Crouch, Christopher (Author), Pearce, Jane (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2019
• Subjects: Industrial design > Research > Methodology; Design > Research; Design
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• Physical Description: xiv, 184 pages illustrations 25 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-180) and index
• ISBN: 9781350127470; 1350127477

Doing Research in Design presents new ways of thinking about the relationship between design and research by positioning design as a social as well as a material practice. This approach emphasises the social consequences of design decisions as well as the importance of the efficient functioning of a design. Doing Research in Design argues that design promotes social change and that, in order to understand that change, designers must turn to social science research methods. The book outlines the relationships between thinking and doing in design - and makes explicit links between design, research, philosophy and sociology - and then examines four central social research methodologies in practice.