TY - JOUR A1 - Chow, Rosan T1 - Moving forward together JF - Strategic Design Research Journal Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:898-opus4-29007 N1 - corresponding author: Rosan Chow VL - 11 IS - 2 SP - 167 EP - 169 PB - OJS/PKP ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Chow, Rosan A1 - Jonas, Wolfgang A1 - Romero-Tejedor, Felicidad T1 - Design Research in Germany? JF - Design Issues Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1162/DESI_e_00303 SN - 1531-4790 SN - 0747-9360 VL - 31 IS - 1 SP - 3 EP - 6 PB - MIT press CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Chow, Rosan A1 - Jonas, Wolfgang T1 - Case Transfer: A Design Approach by Artefacts and Projection JF - Design Issues Y1 - 2010 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254925186_Case_Transfer_A_Design_Approach_by_Artifacts_and_Projection U6 - https://doi.org/10.1162/DESI_a_00040 VL - 26 IS - 4 SP - 9 EP - 19 PB - MIT press ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Chow, Rosan T1 - Projection before Analysis JF - Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal Y1 - 2009 UR - https://www.academia.edu/1166242/Projection_before_Analysis VL - 3 IS - 1 SP - 341 EP - 346 PB - Academia ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Chow, Rosan ED - Aebersold, Roman ED - Minder, Bettina ED - Léchot Hirt, Lysianne T1 - Case Transfer Vs. Case Study. An Evaluation of Case Study as a Method for Design Research T2 - "Focused" - Current Design Research Projects and Methods : Swiss Design Network Symposium 2008, Berne, 0-31 May 2008 Y1 - 2008 UR - https://www.academia.edu/1166337/Case_Transfer_Vs_Case_Study_An_Evaluation_of_Case_Study_as_a_Method_for_Design_Research SN - 978-3952313800 PB - SDN CY - Bern ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Chow, Rosan ED - Mareis, Claudia ED - Joost, Gesche ED - Kimpel, Kora T1 - What Should be done with the Different Versions of Research Through Design T2 - Entwerfen - Wissen - Produzieren: Designforschung im Anwendungskontext Y1 - 2014 SN - 9783839414637 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839414637 SP - 145 EP - 158 PB - transcript Verlag ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Jonas, Wolfgang A1 - Chow, Rosan A1 - Bredies, Katharina A1 - Vent, Kathrin ED - Durling, D. ED - Chen, L. ED - Poldma, T. ED - Roworth-Stokes, S. ED - Stolterman, E. T1 - Far Beyond Dualisms in Methodology - An Integrative Design Research Medium MAPS T2 - Design & Complexity - Proceedings of the Design Research Society Conference (DRS 2010), Montreal, 7 - 9 July, 2010 N2 - Design research is an academic issue and increasingly a success factor for industrial,organizational and social innovation. Efficient methodical support is crucial. The fiercerejection of 1st generation design methods in the early 1970s resulted in thepostmodernist attitude of "no methods", and subsequently in the strong adoption ofscientific ways of thinking for design research. The situation regarding methodologyhas been characterized by unproductive dualisms such as scientific vs. designerlymethods, normative vs. descriptive methods, research vs. design. The potential of theearly (1st generation) methods is neglected and the practical usefulness of designresearch is impeded. The suggestion for 2nd generation methods, conceived asdiscursive instruments, as discussed by Rittel and others has hardly been taken up indesign. The development of MAPS is aimed at the support of practice-oriented design,innovation and research processes. The long-term aim is the development of anintegrated knowledge and communication platform for research through design. MAPSis based upon the idea of a productive reconciliation of the strong dualisms between"scientific" and "designerly" modes of inquiry and supports the emerging concept ofdesign thinking. The paper reports on the ongoing research and development processfrom MAPS1.0 towards MAPS2.0 and beyond. KW - research through design KW - methodology KW - MAPS KW - integrative design research medium Y1 - 2010 UR - https://dl.designresearchsociety.org/conference-volumes/7/ SN - 978-2-9811985-2-5 PB - DRS Digtial Library CY - Montreal, Canada ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Chow, Rosan A1 - Jonas, Wolfgang ED - Durling, David ED - Rust, Chris ED - Chen, Lin-Lin ED - Ashton, Philippa ED - Friedman, Ken T1 - Beyond Dualisms in Methodology. An Integrative Design Research Medium "MAPS" and some Reflections T2 - Undisciplined! Design Research Society Conference 2008, Sheffield Hallam, University, Sheffield, UK, 16-19 July 2008 N2 - Design research is an academic issue and increasingly an essential success factor for industrial, organizational and social innovation. The fierce rejection of 1st generation design methods in the early 1970s resulted in the postmodernist attitude of "no methods", and subsequently, after more than a decade, in the strong adoption of scientific methods, or "the" scientific method, for design research. The current situation regarding methodology is characterized by unproductive dualisms such as scientific methods vs. designerly methods, normative methods vs. descriptive methods, research vs. design. The potential of the early (1st generation) methods is neglected and the practical usefulness of design research is impeded. The suggestion for 2nd generation methods as discussed by Rittel and others has hardly been taken up in design. The development of a methodological tool / medium for research through design – MAPS1 – (which is the central part of the paper) presents the cause and catalyst for some reflections about the usability / desirability / usefulness of methodical support for the design (research) process. KW - Integrative Design Research Medium KW - Research Through Design KW - MAPS KW - Methodology Y1 - 2008 UR - https://shura.shu.ac.uk/477/1/fulltext.pdf SN - 978-1-84387-293-1 PB - Sheffield Hallam University CY - Shefield, UK ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Chow, Rosan ED - Romero-Tejedor, Felicidad ED - Jonas, Wolfgang ED - den van Boom, Holger T1 - Potenziale der Designwissenschaft T2 - Positionen zur Designwissenschaft N2 - Designwissenschaft, Designtheorie, Designforschung ¿ diese Begriffe werden immer noch recht bunt gemischt verwendet. Wir halten Designwissenschaft für das übergeordnete Konzept, das die Aktivitäten und die Ergebnisse der Wissensproduktion im Design bezeichnet. Designwissenschaft entwirft auch Theorien und forscht, um neues Wissen im Design zu schaffen. Das Buch soll einige Aspekte des Für und Wider der Designwissenschaft erörtern. Es richtet sich an alle, die bezüglich der behandelten Themen nach Orientierung suchen. Das Buch wird auch signalisieren, in welch komplexe Kontexte Design eingebettet ist. Die vorliegende Sammlung bietet eine Momentaufnahme des Zustands der Designwissenschaft in Deutschland. Die Beiträge sind ernsthaft, engagiert, wenig ironisch und lassen Konvergenz in Richtung auf einen Konsens allenfalls erahnen. Es handelt sich, wie nicht anders zu erwarten, um eine erste Bestandsaufnahme, die, so hoffen wir, weitere Überlegungen, Diskussionen und Forschungen anregen wird. Y1 - 2010 UR - https://www.uni-kassel.de/upress/online/frei/978-3-89958-876-7.volltext.frei.pdf SN - 978-3-89958-876-7 SP - 32 EP - 36 PB - kassel university press CY - Kassel ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Jonas, Wolfgang A1 - Chow, Rosan A1 - Grand, Simon ED - Engels-Schwarzpaul, A.-Chr. ED - Peters, Michael A. T1 - Alternative Design Doctorates as Drivers for New Forms of Research T2 - Of Other Thoughts: Non-Traditional Ways to the Doctorate N2 - We currently observe an interesting paradox: on the one hand, a narrow and determined preoccupation with the world we actually live in, away from the multiple pasts and futures in which we are embedded. On the other hand, we note a recurrent appeal to transcend the present towards the future – without reference, however, to the questions, perspectives, value propositions and investments that might define the necessary steps for ‘moving forward’ in important areas of social, cultural and economic life. KW - Design Research KW - Knowledge Production KW - Alternative Design KW - Wicked Problem KW - Autopoietic System Y1 - 2013 SN - 94-6209-317-2 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-317-1_18 SP - 183 EP - 202 PB - Springer CY - Rotterdam ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Chow, Rosan ED - Verbeke, Johan ED - Jakimowicz, Adam T1 - Abduction Revisited T2 - Proceedings of the colloquium ‘Communicating (by) Design’, Sint-Lucas Brussels, 15th - 17th April 2009 Y1 - 2009 UR - https://arch.kuleuven.be/onderzoek/publicaties/communicating-by-design SN - 9789081323802 SP - 193 EP - 197 PB - Chamlers University of Technology & Hogeschool voor Wetenshcp & Kunst CY - Brussels ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Chow, Rosan ED - Verbeke, Johan ED - Jakimowicz, Adam ED - Jakimowicz, T1 - Fallman meets Jonas: Compare and Contrast two models of Design Research BT - Proceedings of the colloquium ‘Communicating (by) Design’, Sint-Lucas Brussels, 15th - 17th April 2009 T2 - Communicating (by) Design N2 - In the pursuit of a relevant yet flexible foundation for research in the design disciplines, practice-led research has generated a tremendous amount of interest in the recent years. A designer’s knowledge synthesizes intellectual, creative, experimental and interpretative skills, arguably exceeding the forms of knowledge privileged by, and in, conventional research. The “Communicating (by) Design” conference seeks to investigate developments in the sphere of research by (or through) design. While our main concern originates in architecture, other design disciplines are also of interest.The conference will investigate one of the central challenges for the designbased researcher, namely that of communicating. Communicating here may be understood as a set of processes, activities and events, which take place on different levels in designing - from individual, inner dialogues, through the issue of naming and defining terms to a more general problem of the representation of design knowledge - in order to articulate a set of intentions and values to an audience (which may be oneself ). Exploring aspects of defining, framing and sharing within design, the role of listening will also be raised, as the attitude that constitutes connectivity and allows conversation. The relationship between theory and practice, or “creative” and “critical” modes of inquiry, will also form an important theme of discussion, with a view to drawing the contours of new “hybrid” research practices. We accordingly welcome different representational forms relating to designled research - formal, explorative and/or interpretative - reflecting both doing and thinking about designing. The “Communicating (by) Design” conference is organized jointly between: Sint-Lucas School of Architecture in Brussels and Ghent, Belgium and Department of Architecture at the Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden. KW - research design KW - design research KW - research by designing KW - knowledge processes KW - design practice Y1 - 2009 UR - https://arch.kuleuven.be/onderzoek/publicaties/communicating-by-design SN - 9789081323802 SP - 107 EP - 113 PB - Hogeschool voor Wetenschap & Kunst CY - Brussels ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Chow, Rosan A1 - Jonas, Wolfgang ED - Malins, Julian T1 - Pericean Abduction, Signs & Design Transfer T2 - 8th European Academy of Design Conference ’Design Connexity’. Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland, April 1-3, 2009 N2 - We take abduction to be the central 'logical' and social "mechanism" of knowledge generation in general, applicable to everyday life, design, and the sciences. In our designerly methodological terms, we speak of ANALYSIS (the inductive phase), PROJECTION (the abductive phase) and SYNTHESIS (the deductive phase). We suppose that projection is enabled by abduction, and that understanding the abductive mechanisms in design PROJECTION is essential for the development of genuine designerly concepts of research. We hypothesize that transfer and transferability are relevant concepts and that establishing their relation to abduction is necessary. We set up quasi-experiments to examine design transfer. Based on the results of the experiments and following , we relate Peircean semiotics to his logical theory: his classes of signs are also classes of abduction. Firstly, we subscribe to Peirce's semiotic -a sign is in a triadic relation among object, interpretant and sign itself. Then we... Y1 - 2009 UR - https://www.academia.edu/430886/PEIRCEAN_ABDUCTION_SIGNS_and_DESIGN_TRANSFER SN - 978-1-901085-97-6 SP - 87 EP - 91 PB - Robert Gordon University, Gray's School of Art CY - Aberdeen ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Chow, Rosan ED - Chow, Rosan ED - Sasse, Wolfgang T1 - Dewey’s Aesthetic, Logic and the Project of our Time T2 - Dock of Learning: Design von, als & jenseits von Wissen; Klel; 2014 N2 - This paper is based on the talk of the same title delivered at the “Dock of Learning” Symposium. I reflect on design research with an eye on the critical issues of our time. Design research has the potential to take on these issues; however, there are challenges. A threatening one, I see, is the divergence of design research and art research. I attempt to tackle this by examining Jonas’ Research through Design and Borgdorff’s Artistic Research with help from John Dewey’s philosophy. Y1 - 2015 UR - https://www.academia.edu/24650729/Deweys_Aesthetic_Logic_and_the_Project_of_our_Time SN - 978-3-943763-40-9 SP - 44 EP - 49 PB - Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design CY - Kiel ER - TY - GEN A1 - Chow, Rosan A1 - White, Hazel A1 - Bruce, Fraser A1 - Press, Michael ED - Lalande, Philippe T1 - Rip+Mix: A Design Method Emerging from Case Transfer Y1 - 2009 UR - https://www.academia.edu/10832678/Rip_Mix_SR_Project_Conceiving_Design_Case_Transfer PB - University of Dundee CY - Montreal ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Bredies, Katharina A1 - Joost, Gesche A1 - Chow, Rosan ED - Malins, Julian T1 - Designers and Users: Comparing Constructivist Design T2 - Proceedings of the Eighth European Academy of Design International Conference ’Design Connexity’, 8, Aberdeen, 2009 Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-1-901085-97-6 SP - 71 EP - 75 PB - Robert Gordon University, Gray's School of Art CY - Aberdeen ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Chow, Rosan A1 - Bredies, Katharina ED - Lam, Felix T1 - Some Student-Driven Activities in Design Research in Germany T2 - cltad’s 5th international conference Challenging the curriculum: exploring discipline boundaries in art, design and media - 12th & 13th April, 2010 Novotel Tiergarten, Berlin Y1 - 2010 CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Chow, Rosan A1 - Jonas, Wolfgang A1 - Romero-Tejedor, Felicidad T1 - Design Research in Germany? JF - Design Issues Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1162/DESI_e_00303 VL - 31 IS - 1 SP - 3 EP - 6 PB - MIT Press ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Chow, Rosan A1 - Jonas, Wolfgang T1 - Case Transfer: A Design Approach by Artifacts and Projection JF - Design Issues Y1 - 2010 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1162/DESI_a_00040 VL - 26 IS - 4 SP - 9 EP - 19 PB - MIT Press ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Chow, Rosan T1 - Design Research: Making of a Connected Discipline Part 1 T2 - 15th International Conference of the European Academy of Design (EAD Conference), Online and in Person in Brazil, Finland, India, Spain and the UK, 16-20 October 2023 N2 - Despite the existence of societies, journals, conferences, and doctoral programs that generate increasing numbers of doctorates and research publications design research is not a coherent intellectual field with a clear boundary of its subject matter, nor an academic discipline founded on a consensual understanding of its purpose, methodology and pedagogical curriculum; subsequently, there is hardly any commonality across doctoral programs and the assessment of a doctoral degree is difficult if not impossible, so criticised the late design historian Victor Margolin. He called to unify and bound design research to solve these problems. While agreeing with his critiques and appreciating his good intentions, I will argue that his call is impractical as well as undesirable due to the social circumstances and the nature of design inquiry and the changing academic research practice which tend towards inter/transdisciplinarity. Efforts should rather be directed to join fragmented design research in an evolving and inclusive manner to establish a dynamically connected discipline. KW - Design Studies KW - Connected Discipline KW - Fragmented Adhocracy KW - Design Research KW - Transdisciplinary Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:898-opus4-67665 SN - 2318-6968 SP - 200 EP - 207 PB - Editora Blucher CY - São Paulo ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Chow, Rosan T1 - Design Research: Making of a Connected Discipline Part 2 T2 - 15th International Conference of the European Academy of Design (EAD Conference), Online and in Person in Brazil, Finland, India, Spain and the UK, 16-20 October 2023 N2 - In “Design Research: Making of a Connected Discipline Part 1”, I argue that the social circumstances and the nature of design inquiry and the changing academic research practice which tend towards inter/ trans-disciplinarity render building a unified and bounded discipline unrealistic and undesirable. In place of unified and bounded, I suggest connected to be a more viable concept to think about disciplinary research in design. Here in Part 2, I make some suggestions to start making of a connected discipline. KW - Design Research KW - Design Studies KW - Research Through Design KW - Connected Discipline Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:898-opus4-67675 SN - 2318-6968 VL - 11 SP - 208 EP - 214 PB - Editora Blucher CY - São Paulo ER -