Building a discipline: Indicators of expansion, integration and consolidation in design research across four decades

Christensen, Bo T. and Ball, Linden orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-5099-0124 (2019) Building a discipline: Indicators of expansion, integration and consolidation in design research across four decades. Design Studies, 65 . pp. 18-34. ISSN 0142-694X

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.destud.2019.10.001

Abstract

Highlights

We explored indicators of domain expansion, integration and consolidation in Design Studies.

Author disciplines have expanded into humanities, social science, and human professions.

An increased level of cross-disciplinary collaboration across time is evident.

The term ‘design’ has become increasingly central in stated university affiliations.

Across a 40 year timespan the design domain has consolidated its core foundations.


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