Q What is Design Research?
Q Is Black Mirror one of the best examples of Design Research to-date?
Q Does Design Research always have to be done by Designers?
Q Design Research is the study of the flow of values... Discuss!
Q What makes someone a 'Designer'?
Q Can Design, and Design Research, exist outside of a capitalist model?
Q How can Design Research make a virtue of the way it borrows from other disciplines?
Q How can we get Design Research into 'Research Methods 101'?
Q What can't Design Research do?
Q Is Research through Design doing more harm than good by consuming resources?
Q How can we best communicate that Design Research is a way of understanding the world?
Q Should Design Research be about process or outcomes?
Q Is it right to conduct research without consideration of the climate?
Q What does Design Research give back to the disciplines it borrows from?
Q Why do you love Design Research?
Q Should Design Research focus on engaging fields 'as they are'?
Q Why should Design Research be seen as an unconventional approach?
Q In collaborative Design Research, when is it best to work with expert designers, and when is it best to work with non-expert designers?
Q Can, and should, Design Research power a major shift in thinking by bringing art and science closer together again in a sort of 21st century enlightenment?
Q Design Research creates new ways of thinking, doing and being in the world by probing and nudging cultural vectors... Discuss!
Q Is Design Research a distinct thing, or is it aways a reflection - in relation - to other kinds of research?
Q What are the fruitful relationships between the art and science worldviews?
Q At what point does art, culture or popular entertainment become research?
Q How do we power the major shift in thinking that brings art and science together?
Q How do non-designers (e.g lawyers) practice design in the context of their own practice, without having to go to design school?
Q If there was a chapter on 'Design Research methods 101' chapter, how would we communicate what is special about it?
Q How can Design Research connect with other "unconventional" disciplines?
Q What might a dynamic, evolving, living system to facilitate an introduction to Design Research look like?
Q How does Design Research support convergent and divergent stages?
Q If Design Research isn't special, why should other people value it?
Q How can we capture the multisensoriality of design research in a text book?
Q How does 'Design Research Methods 101' differ from other kinds of 'Research Methods 101's?
Q Is there a “core” set of fundamental Design Research methods and, if so, what are they?
Q How are the results of design research different from the results of other scientific approaches?
Q Why would I choose to do design research?