Design Philosophy and Making Things Happen | Visual Studies

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Drawing from the work of Dewey Wittgenstein and Heidegger this book aims to relate a series of philosophic insights to the practice of engaging in design research for change. These insights are explored and presented as a set of potential strategies for grounding transformative design research within an intellectual context which both embraces and celebrates experience process and uncertainty. Chapter by chapter through theory practical examples and case studies an accessible narrative opens up around the coupled themes of existence and experience language and meaning and knowing and truth. The outcome is a rich and detailed perspective on the ways in which philosophy may afford design rese…