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Acknowledgements |
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Foreword |
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Author's Note |
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About This Book |
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Introduction |
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Delimiting the Term `Design' in This Book |
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About the Bibliographical and Documentary Sources Referenced |
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1 Design Research: A First Approach To The Problem |
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1.2 How Design Research Is Conceived |
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1.2.1 Research Focused on the Practice of Design |
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1.2.2 Academic Research in the Field of Design |
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1.2.3 Research in Design and Design Studies |
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1.2.4 Research for Design, into Design, and through Design |
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1.2.5 Lab, Field, and Showroom: Three Approaches to Design Research |
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1.2.6 Clinical, Applied, and Basic Research |
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1.2.7 Scholarly Research, Pure Research, Developmental Research, and Applied Research in the Creative Arts and Design |
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1.2.8 Endogenous and Exogenous Design Research |
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1.2.9 Reflecting on the Previous Proposals |
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1.3 Design and Research: One Single Equation with Two Solutions |
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2 Design And Its Ontological Reality: Defining The Problem |
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2.1 The Multiple and Fragmented Ways of Looking at Design |
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2.2 Conceiving Design as Two Worlds under a Single Reality |
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2.3 Reality as the Object of Study in Research |
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2.4 The Universal and Timeless Reality of Design: Its Synchronic and Diachronic Dimensions |
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2.5 The Ontological Reality of Design |
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2.6 Components of the Ontological Reality of Design |
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2.7 How to Understand Design Research |
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3 The User In The Ontological Reality Of Design |
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3.1 What Is It that Defines the User? |
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3.2 The User as a Human Being, Social Being, and Individual Person |
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3.2.1 User as a Human Being |
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3.2.2 User as a Social Being |
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3.2.3 User as an Individual Person |
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3.4 User, Customer, or Consumer? |
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4.1 To Know: Knowledge and Skills |
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4.1.5 Project and Creativity in Design |
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4.1.6 Interdisciplinary Work |
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4.2 To Feel: Social Commitment, Ethics and Values |
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4.2.1 Design: As a Strategic Factor in the World Economic Model |
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4.2.2 Design with Human Interest versus Design with Economic Interest |
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4.2.3 The Designer's Margin of Action in Social Responsibility |
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4.2.4 The `Responsible' Care of the Corporate Image |
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4.2.5 Beyond the Corporate Image |
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4.2.6 Ethics and Values of the Designer |
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4.3 To Believe: Perspectives and Approaches to Design |
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4.3.1 User-centred Design |
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4.3.6 Intercultural Design |
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4.3.7 Participatory Design |
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4.3.10 Other Design Approaches |
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4.3.11 Function and Responsibility of Design |
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5.1 Form and Function in Design |
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5.1.1 Modernism, Postmodernism, and Good Design |
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5.1.2 Functionalism, Formalism, and Pragmatism |
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5.2 The Design Object, Culture, and Social Meaning |
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5.3 Use and Enjoyment of the Product |
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5.4 Beyond the Use of the Object |
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5.4.1 The Experience of Use and Emotions |
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5.4.2 Objects and Their Particular Meanings |
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5.4.3 The Object and Aesthetic Experience |
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5.4.4 Aesthetics as Human Necessity |
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5.4.5 Aesthetics: Between the Subjective and the Objective |
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5.4.6 The Composition of Form in the Design Object |
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5.5 The Evolution and Re-conception of the Design Object |
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5.5.1 Usability and Habitability of Virtual Spaces |
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5.5.2 Services and Design |
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5.5.3 The Evolution of Design Objects |
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6 The Components Of The Ontological Reality Of Design And The Relationships Between Them |
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6.1 The User-Object Relationship |
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6.2 The Relationship between the Designer and the User |
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6.3 The Relationship between Designer and Object |
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6.4 The Reality of Design as the Object of Study in Research |
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6.5 The Ontological and Integral Reality in the Act of Design |
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6.6 Typology of Design Research according to Its Specific Object of Study |
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6.6.1 Research Focused on the Design User |
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6.6.2 Research Focused on the Designer |
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6.6.3 Research Focused on the Design Project Process |
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107 | (1) |
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6.6.4 Research Focused on the Designed Object |
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108 | (1) |
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6.6.5 Research Focused on the Discipline |
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6.7 Defining the Object of Study and the Way to Approach It |
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6.8 Design and World View |
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7 Frame And Context: Preparatory Phase For Research |
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111 | (3) |
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7.3 Paradigms and Research Approaches |
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7.3.1 Positivist Paradigm |
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7.3.2 Post-positivist Paradigm |
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7.3.3 Interpretive Paradigm |
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7.3.4 Constructionist Paradigm |
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8 Paradigms, Pragmatism, And Design Research |
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8.1 Pragmatism as an Alternative of Thought and Action for Design Research |
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8.2 Peirce's Pragmatism: Some Fundamental Ideas |
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8.2.1 Peirce: The Pragmatic Maximum |
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8.2.2 Induction, Deduction, and Abduction |
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8.2.4 Pragmatism, Dualism, and Synechism |
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8.3 William James: Pragmatism, Truth, Utility |
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8.3.1 James's Pragmatic Maximum |
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8.3.2 James and the Meaning of Truth |
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8.4 Pragmatism and Mixed Research Methods |
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8.5 Pragmatism and the Reality of Design |
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8.5.1 Design, Art, and Technique: A Differentiated Activity |
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8.5.2 Design: Its Complex Reality |
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8.6 A Pragmatic Approach to Design Research |
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137 | (5) |
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Appendix: Reinterpreting Frayling |
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145 | (3) |
References |
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Index |
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