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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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...

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Positioning the Designer
• What the Designer Does
• The Context of Designing
• 2. What Do Designers and Researchers Do? Thinking, Doing and Researching
• Initiating Change
• Thinking about Questions, Problems and Solutions
• Wicked Problems
• Collaborative Designing and Research
• Thinking about Research
• 3. Practice and Praxis, Reflection and Reflexivity
• Practice
• Praxis
• Reflection
• Reflexivity
• 4. Thinking about Research: Methodology
• What Is a Research Methodology?
• What Is a Research Position?
• Theoretical Lenses for Research
• Methodologies for Research in Design
• Conclusion: From Methodology to Methods
• Questions for Reflection
• 5. Doing Research: From Methodologies to Methods
• Identifying a Research Purpose
• Quantitative and Qualitative Research
• Ethical Research Practices
• Framing a Research Question: Narrowing Down and Opening Up
• 6. In the Picture: Ethnography and Observation.