Having taken a pause during the COVID-19 pandemic and national lockdowns over the last 18 months, we are returning in 2022 to plan for the next edition of the Research Through Design (RTD) Conference. The Steering Committee members will update this website with news in due course. In the meantime, we welcome ideas for exciting…
We are pleased to announce that the fourth edition of the RTD Conference series, RTD 2019 (link to conference website), will be held at the Science Centre, Delft, on 19th to 22nd March 2019. The RTD 2019 General Chairs are Elisa Giaccardi and Pieter Jan Stappers, and the organising team brings together a wealth of…
A Special Issue of Design Issues (MIT Press) has been published this month (July 2017, Vo. 33, No. 3), entitled: Research Through Design: Twenty-First Century Makers and Materialities http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/desi/33/3. This collection brings together reflective commentaries about conducting and disseminating practice-based design research. Articles in this special issue focus on work that was exhibited and discussed…
The third edition of the conference was chaired by Chris Speed and Ian Lambert and was held at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, UK, 22-24 March 2017. The museum context provided an exciting venue for exploring new and emerging disciplines of making, and a unique opportunity for RTD conference exhibits to be juxtaposed…
We have recently made available the provocation that Christopher Frayling offered up at the RTD 2015 closing session: http://tinyurl.com/of4vvae …
We recently published a collection of articles in Composing Conferences – a Special Issue of the Constructivist Foundations Journal, on Developing a Dialogical Platform for Disseminating Research Through Design. The main article, which provides a critical reflective account by the RTD steering committee on the conference experiences to date – focusing on developments for RTD 2015,…
We’re excited to announce the publication of the Visual/Textual Special Issue in Studies in Material Thinking (SMT) Journal based on RTD 2013. This special issue, Visual/Textual, came out of our experience and observations of the first RTD conference during September 2013. Many of the contributors to Visual/Textual originally participated and presented their research at this…
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