Design is becoming a recognised academic discipline, and design research is the driving force behind this transformation. Design Research Now - Essays and Selected Projects charts the field of design research with introductory essays and selected research projects. The authors of the essays, all leading international design scholars, stake out positions on the most important issues of design research. They locate the significance of design research at the interface with technological development, describe what makes it a necessary ingredient of the continued development of the design disciplines, and assign it a seminal role in the relevant developments of society.
The essays are supplemented by the presentation of recently completed research projects from universities in the Netherlands, the UK and Italy.

Gui Bonsiepe, The Uneasy Relationship between Design and Design Research

Nigel Cross, From a Design Science to a Design Discipline: Understanding Designerly Ways of Knowing and Thinking

Richard Buchanan, Strategies of Design Research: Productive Science and Rhetorical Inquiry

Klaus Krippendorff, Design Research, an Oxymoron?

Pieter Jan Stappers, Doing Design as a Part of Doing Research

Paul Chamberlain/Peter Gardner/Rebecca Lawton, Shape of Things to Come

Ianus Keller, For Inspiration Only

Joep Frens, Research Through Design: a Camera Case Study

Ezio Manzini/Anna Meroni, Emerging User Demands for Sustainable Solutions, EMUDE

Wolfgang Jonas, Design Research and its Meaning to the Methodological Development of the Discipline

Beat Schneider, Design as Pratice, Science, and Research

Susann Vihma, Design Semiotics - Institutional Experiences and an Initiative for a Semiotic Theory of Form

Ezio Manzini, Design Research for Sustainable Social Innovation

Ralf Michel, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Basel, Switzerland