TOWARDS A MANIFESTO FOR METHODOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTATION IN DESIGN RESEARCH

This paper argues that design research may benefit from investigations, explorations and innovations in the means of conducting and of conveying design research from qualitative methods in the social sciences. The paper examines how inter-disciplinary and intermethodological experimentation as a mode of  knowledge building. At the end of the paper we draw  out a manifesto that proposes potential actions  concerning design research methods which ought to be  applicable for designers and design researchers, but also  for social scientists engaging with the changing nature  of production-related inquiry and critique in which  design increasingly features

Nordic Design Research Conference 2013