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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - CHAP A1 - Chow, Rosan A1 - Frommeld, Debora A1 - Glanz, Jessica A1 - Boettger, Lars A1 - Stadlbauer, Jana A1 - Weber, Karsten ED - Palinko, Oskar T1 - Envision a Future of Living with Robots through Participatory Theatre BT - A Field Report T2 - Social Robotics N2 - With the goal to facilitate societal discussion, the interactive exhibitioin “Living with Robots”, open to the public at the Science Night in Regens-burg, Germany in 2024 gave visitors the opportunity to imagine a life with robots at home, at work, for care, and education. It was set up with multiple stations of which an improvisation theatre was the highlight. Most of public presentations of robots emphasize the power of technology; the exhibition was intentionally designed to set apart from this. We chose theatric play as the medium of engagement and communication, and it was shown to be fruitful. In this paper, we draw implications from our experiences and present some preliminary results on the public opinions of living with robots. Y1 - 2025 SN - 978-981-96-3519-1 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-3519-1_42 SN - 1611-3349 SP - 470 EP - 475 PB - Springer Nature CY - Singapore 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 - 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 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 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 -