DARN, Part 1: What is Strategic Design? Social Theory and Intangible Design in PerspectiveDARN Part 2: An Evidence-Based Research and Prototyping Methodology for Strategic DesignAbstract
This article presents the first part of a study that aims at proposing an evidence-based research and prototyping methodology for strategic design. Analyzing the emergence of Strategic Design, we argue that a historically unprecedented rapprochement between intangible design and social research open...
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| description | This article presents the first part of a study that aims at proposing an evidence-based research and prototyping methodology for strategic design. Analyzing the emergence of Strategic Design, we argue that a historically unprecedented rapprochement between intangible design and social research opens a spectrum of possibility for conducting design and science in a new way. First, we examine the emergence of strategic design and discuss its institutionalization in academic and professional contexts. Second, we summarize the three ways of approaching Strategic Design as (1) Discipline, (2) Practice and (3) Attitude. Third, drawing on the social sciences as inspired by Actor-Network Theory (ANT), we define Strategic Design as an evidence-based and social scientifically informed creative practice that aims at proposing a new way to arrange or remake the interaction between devices (D), actors (A), representations (R), and networks (N) in any given organization or problem universe. Preparing a groundwork to develop a research and prototyping methodology for strategic design, the paper ends with a methodological discussion as a segue to Part 2 (available in this issue of She-Ji) that presents DARN as a theoretical toolkit for strategic designers. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cf402ee0aea640c79fd18a3d7ef959cc2022-12-22T04:23:59ZengElsevierShe Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics and Innovation2405-87262022-01-0183299318DARN, Part 1: What is Strategic Design? Social Theory and Intangible Design in PerspectiveDARN Part 2: An Evidence-Based Research and Prototyping Methodology for Strategic DesignAbstractKoray Caliskan0Matt Wade1Strategic Design and Management, Parsons, The New School; The Wrong Department; Corresponding author: , +1 (917) 376-9602, Strategic Design and Management, Parsons, The New SchooThe Wrong Department; The Office of Future InteractionsThis article presents the first part of a study that aims at proposing an evidence-based research and prototyping methodology for strategic design. Analyzing the emergence of Strategic Design, we argue that a historically unprecedented rapprochement between intangible design and social research opens a spectrum of possibility for conducting design and science in a new way. First, we examine the emergence of strategic design and discuss its institutionalization in academic and professional contexts. Second, we summarize the three ways of approaching Strategic Design as (1) Discipline, (2) Practice and (3) Attitude. Third, drawing on the social sciences as inspired by Actor-Network Theory (ANT), we define Strategic Design as an evidence-based and social scientifically informed creative practice that aims at proposing a new way to arrange or remake the interaction between devices (D), actors (A), representations (R), and networks (N) in any given organization or problem universe. Preparing a groundwork to develop a research and prototyping methodology for strategic design, the paper ends with a methodological discussion as a segue to Part 2 (available in this issue of She-Ji) that presents DARN as a theoretical toolkit for strategic designers.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405872622000466Strategic DesignMethodologyActor-Network TheoryPrototypingResearch |
| spellingShingle | Koray Caliskan Matt Wade DARN, Part 1: What is Strategic Design? Social Theory and Intangible Design in PerspectiveDARN Part 2: An Evidence-Based Research and Prototyping Methodology for Strategic DesignAbstract She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics and Innovation Strategic Design Methodology Actor-Network Theory Prototyping Research |
| title | DARN, Part 1: What is Strategic Design? Social Theory and Intangible Design in PerspectiveDARN Part 2: An Evidence-Based Research and Prototyping Methodology for Strategic DesignAbstract |
| title_full | DARN, Part 1: What is Strategic Design? Social Theory and Intangible Design in PerspectiveDARN Part 2: An Evidence-Based Research and Prototyping Methodology for Strategic DesignAbstract |
| title_fullStr | DARN, Part 1: What is Strategic Design? Social Theory and Intangible Design in PerspectiveDARN Part 2: An Evidence-Based Research and Prototyping Methodology for Strategic DesignAbstract |
| title_full_unstemmed | DARN, Part 1: What is Strategic Design? Social Theory and Intangible Design in PerspectiveDARN Part 2: An Evidence-Based Research and Prototyping Methodology for Strategic DesignAbstract |
| title_short | DARN, Part 1: What is Strategic Design? Social Theory and Intangible Design in PerspectiveDARN Part 2: An Evidence-Based Research and Prototyping Methodology for Strategic DesignAbstract |
| title_sort | darn part 1 what is strategic design social theory and intangible design in perspectivedarn part 2 an evidence based research and prototyping methodology for strategic designabstract |
| topic | Strategic Design Methodology Actor-Network Theory Prototyping Research |
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