Practice-based Design Research

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

• 1. Introducing Practice Based Design ResearchLaurene VaughanPart 1: Exploring Different Models and Approaches to Doctoral Education in Design2. Designer/Practitioner/ResearcherLaurene Vaughan3. Locating New Knowledge in an Unacknowledged DiscourseBonne Zabolotney4. Post-Normal Design Research: The Role of Practice-based Research in the Era of Neoliberal RiskCameron TonkinwisePart 2: Socio-cultural Impacts of the Design PhD in Practice 5. Designing the PhD curriculum in the design disciplinesHenry Mainsah, Andrew Morrison, Jonny Aspen and Cheryl E. Ball6. Doctoral Training for Practitioners: ADAPTr (Architecture, Design and Art Practice research) a European Commission Marie Curie Initial Training NetworkRichard Blythe and Marcello Stamm?7. Knowledge Exchange through the Design PhDBen Dalton, Tom Simmons and Teal Triggs?8. Educating the Reflective Design Researcher Pelle Ehn and Peter Ullmark?9. Building theory through design Thomas MarkussenPart 3: Structures for Supporting Design Phd Programs 10. Design (research) practiceThomas Binder and Eva Brandt11. Embracing the literacies of design as means and mode of disseminationLaurene Vaughan12. Ten green bottles: Reflecting on the exegesis in the thesis by compilation model Andrew MorrisonPart 4: Graduate Reflections on the Design Phd in Practice 13. When Words Won’t Do: Resisting the impoverishment of knowledge Pia Ednie-Brown14. Before, during and after a PhD: Curating as a generative and collaborative process of infrastructuringKatherine Moline?15. The researcherly designer/the designerly researcherJoyce Yee16. Make Happen: Sense-making the affordances of a practice-based Phd in designLisa Grocott16. From Paratexts to Primary Texts: Shifting from a commercial to a research focused design practiceZoë Sadokierski17. From practice to practice-led research: Challenges and rewardsNeal Haslem18. Grokking the Swamp: Adventures in the Practical Abyss, and Back AgainJeremy Yuille

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.