Design Research Failures asks in what way design research has failed, in order to anticipate and co-create the future of the design discipline.

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the Design Research Failures site is live! designresearchfailures.com/ submit your own contribution and comment on the ones already there.
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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/#… #designresearch #design
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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
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John Thachil: It focused too much on users rather than customers. Users in the business context are customers. @jothachil #designresearch #design
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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
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Laura Forlano: Design Research has failed to re-design itself. @laura4lano #designresearch #redesigndesign
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What is failing in #buildingsinuse research? Interesting parallels can be drawn from Design Research Failures project @DesignReFails designresearchfailures.com/

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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/soren-ro…

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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.
@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 x.com/s_fredriksson/status/9…

En quoi l'approche du design des politiques ou de l'action publique a-t-elle échoué ? Selon vous ? Question ouverte à #Nantes par @lecolededesign et @Design_Friction pendant la #SemaineIP #DesignDI
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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/#… #designresearch @SwinDesign
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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/#… @HBK_BS #designresearch
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Grace Lees-Maffei: (...) Perhaps it has failed to eradicate leading questions? designresearchfailures.com/#… @graceleesmaffei #designresearch
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Opening a new season of failures with Michael Erlhoff. Do check out the remaining bullet stars at designresearchfailures.com/#… #designresearch
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