Design, Philosophy and Making Things Happen

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Half Title
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Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Prologue: The Entwining of Design and Dynamic Knowledge Production
	Philosophy, Epistemology and Developing an Epistemological Narrative for Design Research Involving Practice?
	This is a ‘Pragmatist’ Book
	Yes, but Really, Why Just Focus on Dewey-Wittgenstein- Heidegger?
	Two Additional Points on Privilege, the Dewey-Wittgenstein-Heidegger Baseline and Myself as Author
Introduction: Design Research, Philosophy and Some Radical Philosophers
	A Brief Sketch of Design in the Present
	A Brief Sketch of Design Research in the Past and the Present
	A Brief Sketch of the History of Western Philosophy (and Epistemology)
	A Brief Note on the Concept of the Radical in Philosophy
	Where do Dewey, Wittgenstein and Heidegger fit into Philosophy? How are They Radical?
	The Present Relationship between Design and Philosophy
	The Philosophy of Design
	Polanyi, Schön and Ingold: Theory at the Edge of Philosophy
	The Design-Philosophy Nexus as a Whole
	Dewey, Wittgenstein and Heidegger: Their Backgrounds and Some Quick Intersections
	Why Dewey, Wittgenstein and Heidegger Over Anyone Else?
		Pathway 0.1 An Historical Pathway: The Marxist Influence
	The Dewey-Wittgenstein-Heidegger Baseline as a Means of Carrying Things Forwards
	The Structure of this Book
1 Positioning: Working with Context in Experience
	Motivations in Design Research
	Objectivity in Research: The Position of the Researcher and the Designer-Researcher
	Moblising Dewey-Wittgenstein-Heidegger
	Dewey’s Interlinking of Experience-Existence
	Wittgenstein’s Forms of Life and Ways of ‘Seeing’
	Heidegger’s Dasein, Care and b/Being
		Pathway 1.1 Two Established Pathways: Heidegger on Things and Technology
	Positioning via Dewey-Wittgenstein-Heidegger: Design Research and Organism-Environment Relations; Being-in-World; and Forms of Life
		Pathway 1.2 A Pathway to Consider: A Marxist Positioning on Creativity
		Pathway 1.3 Pathways Which Have Opened up a Series of Key Horizons: Quick Notes on the Decolonial; Feminism; the Ecological; and Buddhism
		Design Research Projects 1.1 Transition Design
		Design Research Projects 1.2 Decolonising Design
2 Processing: Making a World Together through Meaningful Inquiry
	The Intersecting of the Design (Research) Process and the Methodological
	Processing and Dewey-Wittgenstein-Heidegger: Linking Action and Meaning in Coming to Know, See and Discover
	Dewey’s Theories of Inquiry and Communication
		Pathway 2.1 An Established Pathway: Semiotics
		Design Research Projects 2.1 Design Tools: A Means of Meaning Making
	Wittgenstein’s Language Games
		Design Research Projects 2.2 The Women’s Design + Research Unit
	Heidegger’s Discovery and Poetic Thinking
		Pathway 2.2 A Potential Pathway in Formation: Design and Buddhism
	Ways of Processing via Dewey-Wittgenstein-Heidegger: Knowing, Understanding, Discovering
		Pathway 2.3 Some Additional Potential Linguistic Pathways: Austin, Foucault and Butler
3 Producing: Knowing Value
	Designing and Knowing in the Contemporary Field: Designerly Endpoints and Outcomes
	Producing and Dewey-Wittgenstein-Heidegger
	Dewey’s Escape from Knowledge and Belief: Warranted Assertability
	Wittgenstein’s Grounding of Knowledge, Certainty, Judgement and Doubt
	Heidegger’s Unconcealment: Truth as Discoveredness
		Design Research Projects 3.1 The ‘Reorientation’ of the Designing Quality in Interaction Group at TU Delft
	Producing and Dewey-Wittgenstein-Heidegger: Asserting, Defending, Unconcealing
		Pathway 3.1 An Establishing Pathway: Latourian Actor Network Theory and Design via Latour
		Pathway 3.2 A Pathway in Formation: Postphenomenology
Conclusion – Understanding the Boundaries, A Justificatory Narrative and What Next?
	Positioning, Processing and Producing in the Round: The Baseline and Design Research Involving Practice
	A Brief Note on the Pathways
	Mapping the Baseline Philosophers and Some Pathways: A First ‘Sketch’
	An Early Epistemological Justificatory Narrative for Design Research Involving Practice via the Baseline
		Pathway C.1 A Pathway to be Considered Further: A Quick Outline of the Potential of Critical Theory’s Commitment to Transformation
		Pathway C.2 A Pathway that is Appealing but Challenging: A Quick Note on the Potential of Deleuze-Guattari for the Development of an Epistemology of Design Research Involving Practice
		Pathway C.3 A Final Pathway, not yet Fully Formed but Needing to be Explored: Process Philosophy, Whitehead and the Potential for a Metaphysics for Design
		Design Research Projects C.1 Philosophy in Action at the Everyday Design Studio, at Simon Fraser University
		Design Research Projects C.2 Antidisciplinarity
	Why Does This Matter?
	How Might Philosophy Benefit from a Designerly Perspective? Or, Towards a Designer-Philosopher
Index