Perspectives of Care

The “Perspectives of Care” workshop invited participants to explore their experiences and perspectives of care through a number of creative design-led activities. The workshop provided an opportunity for citizens to explore their “care” and “caring” relationships based in the city…

Flourish by Design

Flourish by Design brings together a range of established and emerging voices in design research for a collection that provides original provocations on topics of global significance. It is an insightful guide to original theory and practice concerning how we…

Does Design Care…? [3elfast]

Does Design Care…? [3elfast] Does Design Care…? is one of the initiatives of the Design Research for Change programme delivered under the AHRC Funded Design Priority Area Leadership Fellow, Professor Paul Rodgers (AH/P013619/1 and AH/P013619/2). This programme, which includes the…

DftUW Exhibition

Design for the Unthinkable World is many things. It is an exhibition featuring six international art/design studios; it is a book being published by Routledge/ Taylor and Francis that includes contributions from a diverse group of researchers operating across disciplines,…

Companion to Design Research

This new edition of The Routledge Companion to Design Research offers an updated, comprehensive examination of design research, celebrating a plurality of voices and range of conceptual, methodological, technological and theoretical approaches evident in contemporary design research. This volume comprises thirty-eight original…

Design for the Unthinkable World

This project includes critical contributions from six internationally-leading design researcher/ practitioners that explore the following Design for the Unthinkable-World issues: * What is design seeking to change and why? * What needs to change? * What possibilities might there be…

Design for PLWD

The book presents a series of papers describing the latest research that shows how design thinking, making, and acting contributes to the co-design and development of products, spaces, and services with people living with dementia. We know that there is…

What Design Research Does…

Design research makes a significant contribution to the UK economy and society as a whole. Ever since the establishment of the Government Schools of Design in the nineteenth century, the UK has been widely acknowledged as an international leader in…

Adventures in Design Research…

Adventures in Design Research… tells the stories of 57 personal design researchers’ journeys. Based in universities across the UK, each one of the 57 stories portray a rich and diverse personal account of the design researcher’s journey from what they…