Mapping design research / Simon Grand, Wolfgang Jonas (editions.).

Includes bibliographical references.

Exploring the swampy ground / Wolfgang Jonas -- Re-searching design and designing research / Ranulph Glanville -- Science and complexity / Warren Weaver -- Social planning : designing the evolving artifact / Herbert A. Simon -- Building the knowledge base / Charles Owen -- Research in art and design / Christopher Frayling -- The nature of research / Bruce Archer -- Searching for design research questions : some conceptual clarifications / Alain Findeli -- Theory construction in design research : criteria : approaches, and methods / Ken Friedman -- A theory of designing / John Chris Jones -- Research as design : promising strategies and possible futures / Simon Grand -- The joyful wisdom / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Trading zone / Peter Galison -- The new production of knowledge / Michael Gibbons [and others] -- Some elements of a sociology of translation / Michel Callon -- What is a laboratory? / Karin Knorr Cetina -- Experimental systems and epistemic things / Hans-Jörg Rheinberger -- Which protocol for the new collective experiments? / Bruno Latour -- Scientific practices / John Law -- Design fiction / Julian Bleecker -- The electronic as post-optimal object / Anthony Dunne.

A collection of some 40 international texts from the period after 1960 mirrors the principal developmental phases of design research in particular and scientific research in general.