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"Tendencies toward "academization" of traditionally practice-based fields have forced design to articulate itself as an academic discipline, in theoretical terms. In this book, Johan Redstrom offers a new approach to theory development in design research--one that is driven by practic...
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The MIT Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Design thinking, design theory
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| Summary: |
"Tendencies toward "academization" of traditionally practice-based fields have forced design to articulate itself as an academic discipline, in theoretical terms. In this book, Johan Redstrom offers a new approach to theory development in design research--one that is driven by practice, experimentation, and making. Redstrom does not theorize from the outside, but explores the idea that, just as design research engages in the making of many different kinds of things, theory might well be one of those things it is making. Redstrom proposes that we consider theory not as stable and constant but |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 171 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-164) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780262036658 (hardback : alkaline paper) : 0262036657 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | NK1505 |
| CLC: | TB47-02 |
| Call Number: | TB47-02/R321 |
| Contents: | Thing and theory -- Tactics -- Between -- Making definitions -- Programs -- Presenting -- Transitional theory. |