Includes bibliographical references and index.

Design research : The first 500 years / Jonathan Hill -- An 'artificial science' of architecture / Philip Steadman -- What if design practice matters? / Richard Blythe and Leon van Schaik -- Design research and critical transformations : situating thought, projecting action / Katya Grillner -- Design research : translating theory into practice / Shane Murray -- A way with words : feminists writing architectural design research / Jane Rendell -- This is research by design / Johan Verbeke -- Space is not a thing / Leslie Kavanaugh -- Even more than architecture / Richard Coyne -- Returning Duchamp's urinal to the bathroom? On the reconnection between artistic experimentation, social responsibility and institutional transformation / Teddy Cruz -- 'A two-fold movement' : design research as dialectical critical practice / Murray Fraser.