Drifting by Intention
Four Epistemic Traditions from within Constructive Design Research
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Four Epistemic Traditions of Evaluation
On what grounds do we judge whether a theory for design is useful, valuable or successful? What is validity in constructive design research? What is the role of theory produced from design? Chapter 4 dealt wit...
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Corpus
The corpus we have been using in this book consists of PhD dissertations done in the constructive vein. It has been divided into primary and secondary categories. The reason lies in the history of the book. It...
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New Experimentalism
This book has argued that the heart of constructive design research is usually a design experiment; it is a key vehicle of knowledge creation. In this chapter we study design experiments through a fairly recen...
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Ways of Drifting in Design Experiments
In Chap. 4, we presented a Knowledge-Relevance model (K-R) that maps design activities in terms of evaluation and hypothesis construction, and knowledge and relevance interests. We analyzed some of the ways in...
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Crossing the Hermeneutic Gap
Design is often described as a synthesizing and solution-oriented discipline that deals with ‘wicked problems (Horst Rittel and Webber 1973). However, experiences from practice in design research tells and sho...
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Shift to Knowledge
In the previous chapter we outlined the background of this book — constructive design research — and unpacked how constructive design research, being partly based on design practices, needs to pay respect to b...
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Design Hypothesis: Knowledge-Relevance Model
This chapter asks how constructive design researchers construe hypotheses. What guides the construal process, is it theory, research program, or design reasoning? We will argue that this question involves two ...
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Drifting
In this book, we deal with the epistemology of design. Epistemology is one of the grand terms of philosophy, where it means discourse about knowledge — usually about certainty, whether we can trust our senses,...
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Drifting in Four Epistemic Traditions
The previous chapter mapped some of the most important characteristics in which constructive design research differs from professional practices and conditions for design. Our focus was on the implications of ...
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At the Frontiers of Knowledge
In this chapter we recap what we have presented so far and point to future directions. As noted in the first lines of Chap. 1, this book is about how constructive design researchers build knowledge through act...
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“Nothing Makes Sense”
Self-organizing and collaborative activities are increasingly considered as promising alternatives for accessing goods and services responding to ecological and economic challenges, especially since 2008 econo...
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The Role of Augmented Elements to Support Aesthetic and Entertaining Aspects of Interactive Maps on the Web and Mobile Phones
Maps have become commonplace tools within mobile phones, as indicated by recent developments in commercial markets. Wayfi nding and various locationbased services have become one of the primary purposes for th...
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Using Video with Active Markers
The designers have started to use technological means in increasing fashion, with tools aimed for them readily available. In order to manage the task of designing and analysing a prototype, we focus on using v...
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