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Abstract

An intriguing aspect of the notion of is how much we seem to gain from its proposition and how informative it appears to be, even as we do not state precisely what is meant by the terms research or design. But, what is it that this notion of calls to the foreground? In what follows, I discuss three interpretations of what through might refer to by looking at it from different perspectives: , and . Different perspectives bring different possibilities to the foreground, and therefore they also suggest slightly different future trajectories. But this also means that some issues fade into the background, something new perspectives can help us get a glimpse of. This is perhaps especially evident in the case of judgement, the least familiar of the three. Looking across the range of research trajectories that these three perspectives open up, there are reasons to think that we can make research through design become a more extensive, inclusive and a far more radical research proposition than its name reveals.

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This study was supported by the:
  • Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden (Award 2017.0058)
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Keyword(s): design research methodology; design studies; design theory; judgement; making; practice-based research

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