Design Research Through Practice - Ilpo Koskinen

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Auteur(s) : Ilpo Koskinen - Johan Redstrom - John Zimmerman - Stephan Wensveen - Thomas Binder

Editeur : Elsevier Science

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/09/2011

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 224

Expédition : 451

Dimensions : 23.1 x 18.9 x 1.7

ISBN : 0123855020

Résumé :

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.

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Biographie:

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....

Sommaire:

Foreword by Jane Fulton Suri

Preface

Chapter 1: Constructive Design Research

Chapter 2: The Coming Age of Constructive Design Research

Chapter 3: Research Programs

Chapter 4: Lab: Can You Really Study Design in a Laboratory?

Chapter 5: Field: How to Follow Design through Society

Chapter 6: Showroom: Research Meets Design and Art

Chapter 7: How to Work with Theory

Chapter 8: Design Things: Models, Scenarios, Prototypes

Chapter 9: Constructive Design Research in Society

Chapter 10: Building Research Programs

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Design Research Through Practice will quickly become a book that is critical to own whether you are new to design research, an expert at design research, or someone who collaborates with design researchers. The classifications of Lab, Field, and Showroom are useful and workable categories that help researchers to understand design research as an intentional byproduct of what designers do naturally -- envision and prototype a better future through the creation of artifacts, environments, services and systems. This book is a must-read!-Jodi Forlizzi, Associate Professor of Design and HCI, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University Design Research Through Practice demonstrates how different traditions of collaborative constructions have bridged the gap between understanding and making, and theoretical and actual solutions... This is a thoughtful examination of exemplary practice and an inspirational foundation for others to refelct and build upon.--from the foreword by Jane Fulton Suri, Managing Partner; Creative Director, IDEO