Contents	4
	Foreword BIRD	7
	Design / Research	11
	Introduction	12
	Where Are We Going? An Aspirational Map	17
	The Resourceful Social Expert: Defining the Future Craft of Design Research	22
	The Myth of the Design Androgyne	28
	Doing Research: Design Research in the Context of the ‘Practice Turn’	35
	Project-Grounded Responses: Design / Research	42
	Text / Object	59
	Introduction	60
	Communication in Design Research	64
	Text vs. Artefact in Design Research? A Strange Question!	70
	Nothing Fixed: An Essay on Fluidity in Design Research	77
	Everyday Homeopathy in Practice-Changing Design Research	83
	Project-Grounded Responses: Text / Object	91
	Visual Stances	107
	Borrowing / Stealing	127
	Introduction	128
	Design Research – No Boundaries	131
	Theories and Methods in Design Research – Why We Should Discuss Concrete Projects	137
	In Praise of Theft: ‘The Play with Borrowing vs. Stealing from other Fields’ … Or, the Problem of Design Research	143
	Design Prepositions	153
	Project-Grounded Responses: Borrowing / Stealing	166
	Discipline / Indiscipline	181
	Introduction	182
	Transdisciplinary Research through Design – Shifting Paradigms as an Opportunity	186
	Indiscipline	193
	Design, an Undisciplinable Profession	197
	Between Possibility and Discipline or: Design Research as Provocation to the Faint-Hearted	207
	Project-Grounded Responses: Discipline / Indiscipline	212
	Authors	227
	Responders	235