DesignResearchFails

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Emmanuelle Dean: design has lived in its limiting title as an art practice/hobby rather than a legitimate tactic to invent change designresearchfailures.com/#/emmanuelle-d… #designresearch #design

Kun-Pyo Lee is referring to @srosenbak amazing project @DesignReFails in his closing keynote // “In what way has design research failed in the last 50 years?” #acmDIS2018

John Thachil: It focused too much on users rather than customers. Users in the business context are customers. @jothachil #designresearch #design

Daniel Cardoso Llach: Too often relying on sanitized versions of its own practice, design research has (largely) failed to see design with genuine empirical curiosity. @dcardo #designresearch #design

Laura Forlano: Design Research has failed to re-design itself. @laura4lano #designresearch #redesigndesign

Read our interview with Søren Rosenbak @DesignReFails. First in a new series: This Much I Know (About Design Research). #DRSinterviews #designresearch designresearchsociety.org/articles/sren-…

What is failing in #buildingsinuse research? Interesting parallels can be drawn from Design Research Failures project @DesignReFails designresearchfailures.com

A short piece reflecting on the role of failures and obstacles in design for 'HTWO', the world’s first think tank dedicated to the exploration and promotion of strategic obstacle design: htwo.org/2018/01/09/sor…

this is an open call for further design historical engagements, dm me in case you're interested in contributing to the histories of Design Research Failures.

2) @BenHighmore reflecting on this @DesignReFails response from Jeremy Myerson

1) Kaisu Savola (PhD @AaltoDPTDesign) reflecting on this anonymous @DesignReFails response from PhD by Design 2017 @PBD_Sheffield @phdbydesign

featuring the article 'Histories of Design Research Failures', discussing @DesignReFails as a potential vehicle for making and unmaking #designhistory in various ways. including two examples– twitter.com/graceleesmaffe…

@DesignReFails satellite event as part of Public Innovation Week in #Nantes, broad range of stakeholders answering: "In what way, according to you, has the approach of designing policies and public action failed?" Cheers @Design_Friction twitter.com/s_fredriksson/…

Daniel Huppatz: Design Research has failed to document its successes and failures in an accessible way, and has failed to be self-reflexive enough. designresearchfailures.com/#/daniel-huppa… #designresearch @SwinDesign

Wolfgang Jonas: In reflecting the epistemological and methodological consequences that follow from the fact that design deals with conceiving things that do not (yet) exist. designresearchfailures.com/#/wolfgang-jon… @HBK_BS #designresearch

Grace Lees-Maffei: (...) Perhaps it has failed to eradicate leading questions? designresearchfailures.com/#/grace-leesma… @graceleesmaffei #designresearch

Opening a new season of failures with Michael Erlhoff. Do check out the remaining bullet stars at designresearchfailures.com/#/michael-erlh… #designresearch