Practice-based Design Research

This unique collection offers profound insights, exemplary cases and practical guidance for practice-based design research as it expands worldwide. A major contribution to the field, this book is essential for supervisors, researchers, teachers and students of doctoral education in design. * Ramia Maz, Professor of Design at Aalto University, Finland * Design has an increasingly important role to play in material, social, economic, and technological change and design research needs to change accordingly. This book describes the theory and the practice of practice-based design research and is an exciting and timely contribution to the field. I think it will become an essential reference point not only for future practice-based design researchers, but for all design researchers. * Peter Lloyd, Professor of Design at the University of Brighton and Vice Chair of the Design Research Society, UK * Practice Based Design Research bravely challenges conventional forms doctoral scholarship through the specular agency of the design disciplines. It is an essential resource both diverse and critical for reconceptualising the knowledge economy, not just in design but as design. * Stephen Loo, Professor of Architecture at the University of Tasmania, Australia *

Laurene Vaughan is Professor of Design and Communication at RMIT University, Australia.

1. Introducing Practice Based Design Research Laurene Vaughan Part 1: Exploring Different Models and Approaches to Doctoral Education in Design 2. Designer/Practitioner/Researcher Laurene Vaughan 3. Locating New Knowledge in an Unacknowledged Discourse Bonne Zabolotney 4. Post-Normal Design Research: The Role of Practice-based Research in the Era of Neoliberal Risk Cameron Tonkinwise Part 2: Socio-cultural Impacts of the Design PhD in Practice 5. Designing the PhD curriculum in the design disciplines Henry Mainsah, Andrew Morrison, Jonny Aspen and Cheryl E. Ball 6. Doctoral Training for Practitioners: ADAPTr (Architecture, Design and Art Practice research) a European Commission Marie Curie Initial Training Network Richard Blythe and Marcello Stamm? 7. Knowledge Exchange through the Design PhD Ben Dalton, Tom Simmons and Teal Triggs? 8. Educating the Reflective Design Researcher Pelle Ehn and Peter Ullmark? 9. Building theory through design Thomas Markussen Part 3: Structures for Supporting Design Phd Programs 10. Design (research) practice Thomas Binder and Eva Brandt 11. Embracing the literacies of design as means and mode of dissemination Laurene Vaughan 12. Ten green bottles: Reflecting on the exegesis in the thesis by compilation model Andrew Morrison Part 4: Graduate Reflections on the Design Phd in Practice 13. When Words Wont Do: Resisting the impoverishment of knowledge Pia Ednie-Brown 14. Before, during and after a PhD: Curating as a generative and collaborative process of infrastructuring Katherine Moline? 15. The researcherly designer/the designerly researcher Joyce Yee 16. Make Happen: Sense-making the affordances of a practice-based Phd in design Lisa Grocott 16. From Paratexts to Primary Texts: Shifting from a commercial to a research focused design practice Zo Sadokierski 17. From practice to practice-led research: Challenges and rewards Neal Haslem 18. Grokking the Swamp: Adventures in the Practical Abyss, and Back Again Jeremy Yuille