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She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation, 2015

The first issue of a new journal is a moment for celebration and a time for reflection. With this first issue, we launch Shè Jì: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation. Our launch will occupy two special issues. Our opening editorial offers an opportunity for celebration-in the next issue, we will reflect on what a journal ought to be and do at this moment in human history. Following this short celebration, we will turn the pages of Shè Jì over to thinkers whose work has helped to define the design field today, building bridges to innovation, value creation, the productive economy, and the world we build together. These articles exemplify the scope and quality of the journal we hope to build. Twenty years ago, the design field had only a handful of scholarly and scientific journals. Visible Language was the first in the field, forty years old in 2017. Design Studies came next in 1979, and Design Issues followed in 1984. 1 Today, there are over two hundred design journals. 2 Of these, around forty are widely acknowledged as significant. 3 Of these, a worldwide survey of experts identified fourteen journals with positions of global eminence. Some journals cover such specialist fields as engineering design, ergonomics, and design history. Others are general design journals. Nevertheless, a gap remains, an interdisciplinary gap where professional fields and research disciplines should meet. In this interdisciplinary gap, we will examine the intersection of design, economics, and innovation in various combinations, from various perspectives, and using the methods and methodological frameworks of the many disciplines that contribute to the necessarily interdisciplinary design field. These kinds of articles do appear in the other journals, and in the journals of other fields. Our remit is to provide a forum in which contributors regularly examine these issues. Our interdisciplinary nature has a second focus, as well. So far, few of the research journals in design have managed to find a regular audience among professional designers-or among the leaders in business, industry, and government that use design. And few of the professional design magazines have managed to find a regular readership among scholars and scientists who work with design. This is a problem for a field in which the many kinds of people who work with design every day can learn more and do better by speaking and thinking together. Journals in other fields have managed to bridge the gap. Harvard Business Review is an example: leaders in business and industry as well as management scholars and economists read HBR. Another example is The Economist, a weekly newspaper that scholars and scientists read along with managers, industrialists, financiers, politicians, and civil servants.

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000

The boundaries and contours of design sciences continue to undergo definition and refinement. In many ways, the sciences of design defy disciplinary characterization. They demand multiple epistemologies, theoretical orientations (e.g. construction, analysis or intervention) and value considerations. As our understanding of this emerging field of study grows, we become aware that the sciences of design require a systemic perspective that spans disciplinary boundaries. The Doctoral Consortium at the Design Science Research Conference in Information Sciences and Technology (DESRIST) was an important milepost in their evolution. It provided a forum where students and leading researchers in the design sciences challenged one another to tackle topics and concerns that are similar across different disciplines. This paper reports on the consortium outcomes and insights from mentors who took part in it. We develop a set of observations to guide the evolution of the sciences of design. It is our intent that the observations will be beneficial, not only for IS researchers, but also for colleagues in allied disciplines who are already contributing to shaping the sciences of design.

If international design research is to continue to develop, we need to have fundamental discussions, not only on what we understand design research to be, but also on the most important questions and issues, on exemplary design projects, and on the most promising subject areas now and in the future. Rather than asserting unilaterally that a particular conception of research is the only valid one, or that a single type of approach is exemplary, however, our aim should be to present a diversity of viewpoints and research projects to a wider audience of design researchers, introducing specific research areas and giving reference points for more extensive debate on the focus, issues, objectives, approaches and methods of design research.

Design, of things with meaning, of artifacts of value, those that persist. Manmade matters, they are not orphaned, but born of need, values, humanity's interaction with its natural and built environment, and its interplay with cultures -"Vernacular Design". 1 Design is the aftermath of knowledge, experience, practice, and science -"High Design". 2 It's a natural human ability to solve problems that entails designing processes. If we have learnt something from history, it is that every relic related to the humankind's progression was a process of planned interactions and thoughts and then reflections; layers of human embodiments that are a consequence of need and purpose. We, the human-beings, are the masters of mental artistry and its manifestation; what Tim Ingold calls it "The Building Perspective". 3 We are the authors of our artifacts and their visualization, their processes, techniques, mechanisms, materials, resources and aims, before even being materialized. For years, it was an enigma to unravel the workings of the master's brain in regards to the design process, to analyze it and then utilize it for the benefit of the collective; this what later came to be Design Research.

Design Research Society Wonderground …, 2006

To combine the terms design and research produces an ambiguity that has been discussed already by many authors. As some have phrased it we may for example ask: Is it research about design?, is it research in design? or is it research through design? [Frayling, 1993] If we ...

DRS2016: Future-Focused Thinking, 2016

This paper explores the current situation of design research with a particular emphasis on how emerging forms of design research are framing and addressing contemporary global issues. The paper examines how design research can be a creative and transformative force in helping to shape our lives in more responsible, sustainable, and meaningful ways. Today, the plurality in design research is clearly evident given the wide range of conceptual, methodological, technological and theoretical approaches adopted. Moreover, various forms of design research now routinely appear in a vast array of disciplines in and around modern design praxis, including business, engineering, computing, and healthcare. This paper reviews a rich selection of the state-of-the-art design research that exemplify the range of approaches, methods, applications, and collaborations prevalent in emerging forms of design research and presents 10 characteristics of 'good' design research that will support design researchers in addressing the complex global issues we face.

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