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Making Design Theory (Hardcover)
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Making Design Theory (Hardcover)
Series: Design Thinking, Design Theory
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A new approach to theory development for practice-driven research,
proposing that theory is something made in and through design.
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 Redstroem
offers a new approach to theory development in design research-one
that is driven by practice, experimentation, and making. Redstroem
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. Redstroem proposes that we consider theory not as stable
and constant but as something unfolding-something acted as much as
articulated, inherently fluid and transitional. Redstroem describes
three ways in which theory, in particular formulating basic
definitions, is made through design: the use of combinations of
fluid terms to articulate issues; the definition of more complex
concepts through practice; and combining sets of definitions made
through design into "programs." These are the building blocks for
creating conceptual structures to support design. Design seems to
thrive on the complexities arising from dichotomies: form and
function, freedom and method, art and science. With his idea of
transitional theory, Redstroem departs from the traditional
academic imperative to pick a side-theory or practice, art or
science. Doing so, he opens up something like a design space for
theory development within design research.
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