policies and subjects the latest American effort to informed, contextual, and necessary scrutiny. Although the list of topics and arguments is disparate, there is a pattern worth noting in the material assembled here. Rather than…
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Books Received Victor Margolin Aynsley, Jeremy. Designing Modern Germany. Londres: Reaktion Books, 2009. ISBN 978-1-86189-401-4 (paperback); 255 pages. Color and black and white illustrations. One of a series of books from Reaktion that examines modern…
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Introduction This issue of Design Issues assembles articles that, ensemble, reflect a spirit of inquiry being intrinsic to the broad church of design research. Ici, some articles set out to test the boundaries of our…
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Introduction Games are a ubiquitous feature of popular culture, providing ephemeral entertainment that draws on quick wit, cognitive and motor skills, and the reservoir of emotions that lie beneath the sur- face of every human…
Introduction: Toward Critical
Introduction: Toward Critical Game Design James Malazita, Casey O’Donnell Games and Design In 2003, Brenda Laurel, game designer, researcher, and founder of the women-centered Purple Moon game production company, edited Design Research: Methods and Perspectives,…
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Introduction Sometimes we look to find community in similarity. That is of- ten the case in academia. Disciplines tend to cohere and define themselves by a set of subjects and methods. But it is the…
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Introduction For most of us, design is experienced at a level of attending to the everyday, exposing the ordinariness of repeated, daily interactions. In privileged Western society, we set the alarm clock to get us…
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Introduction Understanding, rather than simply marking the conclusion of a process of inquiry, is often the initial stage of the next step in the search for knowledge. Now that we know X (whatever X might…
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Introduction In the editorial introduction to this special issue of Design Issues, Thomas Susanka and Olaf Kramer suggest that, in democracies based on citizen engagement, trust in science is a critical factor in good decision-making….
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Introduction The term “agency” has various connotations in design, two of which highlight themes within the articles featured in this issue of Design Issues. A “design agency,” for example, commonly refers to a specific organizational…