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    Frei Otto. Denken in Modellen

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    Adolf Loos on Trial

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    Reactivate Athens

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    The Word for World is Still Forest

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    Alle wollen wohnen: Gerecht. Sozial. Bezahlbar

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    Life. A Novel

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    The Music of the Future

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    Was ist ein Volk?

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    On the Eve of the Future. Selected Writings on Film

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    The Autonomous City: A History of Urban Squatting

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    The Architecture of Psychoanalysis. Spaces of Transition

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    Symptoms of the Planetary Condition: A Critical Vocabulary

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    Flows and Counterflows. Globalisation in Contemporary Art

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    Modernism in Scandinavia: Art, Architecture and Design

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    Glänzende Städte. Geschlechter- und andere Verhältnisse in…

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    Wang Shu. Amateur Architecture Studio

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    Object-Oriented Feminism

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    Maintenance Architecture

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    I Love Dick

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    Machine Art in the Twentieth Century

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    Architekturen unserer Arbeit

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    Absolute Architekturbeginner. Schriften 2004-2014

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    Miamification

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    Adaptive Reuse. Extending the Lives of Buildings

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    Iggy Pop Life Class

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    Berlin Transfer. Open Living Structures

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    Counterpreservation. Architectural Decay in Berlin Since…

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    Experimental Music Since 1970

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    IDEA 376. Graphic Designers and Exhibitions

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    Opus Moderne. Die Wand aus glatt geschaltem Sichtbeton

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    Fundamental Acts. Life, Education, Ceremony, Love, Death

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    The Participatory City

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    The Language of Cities

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    Radically Simple

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    Selbst

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Making Design Theory

A new approach to theory development for practice-driven research, proposing that theory is something made in and through design.
Tendencies toward "academization" of traditionally practice-based fields have forced design to articulate itself as an academic discipline, in theoretical terms. In this book, Johan Redstrom offers a new approach to theory development in design research--one that is driven by practice, experimentation, and making. Redstrom does not theorize from the outside, but explores the idea that, just as design research engages in the making of many different kinds of things, theory might well be one of those things it is making.
Redstrom proposes that we consider theory not as stable and constant but as something unfolding -- something acted as much as articulated, inherently fluid and transitional. Redstrom describes three ways in which theory, in particular formulating basic definitions, is made through design: the use of combinations of fluid terms to articulate issues; the definition of more complex concepts through practice; and combining sets of definitions made through design into "programs." These are the building blocks for creating conceptual structures to support design.
Design seems to thrive on the complexities arising from dichotomies: form and function, freedom and method, art and science. With his idea of transitional theory, Redstrom departs from the traditional academic imperative to pick a side -- theory or practice, art or science. Doing so, he opens up something like a design space for theory development within design research.


Johan Redström
Making Design Theory
MIT Press, 2017, 9780262036658