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Design research through practice
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- Book Synopsis
- 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.
- About The Author
- Ilpo Koskinen is a design researcher who has been full professor in leading design schools in Europe, Asia and Australia. His main interests have been in design methodology, mobile multimedia, design in cities, and in the cultural basis of design. His best-known books are Empathic Design (2003), Mobile Multimedia in Action (2007), Design Research through Practice: From the Lab, Field and Showroom (2011), Drifting by Intention (2020), and Design, Empathy, Interpretation: Towards Interpretive Design Research (2023). He has also written about social design and about its aesthetic, and more recently about the permeability of human beings and nature. He is currently revising and expanding the 2011 book and on a European initiative around reconciliation after the war in Ukraine. His work has impacted design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and the social sciences. He received his PhD in sociology, specifically conversation analysis and ethnomethodology. He has applied his knowledge variously, interactionism in Empathic Design but also in Design, Empathy, Interpretation, ethnomethodology in Mobile Multimedia in Action, and qualitative methodology in Design Research through Practice and Drifting by Intention.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780123855022
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Morgan Kaufmann, (29 September 2011)
- Number of Pages
- 204
- Weight
- 620 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 232 x 187 x 11 mm
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