ITERATIONS: Design Research and Practice Review
The IDI is proud to support ITERATIONS, a mixed-content, multi-disciplinary peer review in which designers and design researchers in Ireland and internationally document, reflect and present their processes. Issue 06 ( February 2018) with Ed. Marc O'Riain is now available to purchase.
Through ITERATIONS, the IDI supports our design research community by promoting reflection in practice.
With the first Irish Design Research and Practice Review, Iterations, we aim to engage and activate on design issues.
Design outcomes vary between different projects and fields. Yet the process of creative exploration and experimentation is universal. Iterations is a platform for designers and researchers to document and present their practices.
Order 06 Here Online
This issue, 06 February 2018 includes an IDI President's address by Kim Mackenzie-Doyle. This edition was edited by Dr Marc O’Riain of CIT and includes an interview with designers Ken Garland on his 60 year career in design and an interview with David Smith on the evolution of graphic design into the digital world.
Themes of featured papers include an examination of sustainability, ethics in design, the role of design and technology in the democratisation of local government. Featured articles include items on use of smartphones as an integral in a practical design process, encouraging responsible design by the use of value thinking and psychology, engaging students as problem finders as well as problem solvers, the key design principles for civic dialogue in the post-truth era and an essay on light and shadow in design.
Full details on Iterations and how it is produced, edited etc. are available on the main ITERATIONS website. Including detail on how to submit an article for publishing.
EARLIER EDITIONS
05 was edited by Dr. Muireann McMahon, includes an IDI President's address by Kim Mackenzie-Doyle on whydesign.ie and #balancebydesign etc. Issue 05 has articles by Alan Grincell, Dr. PJ White, Tracey Dalton, Hilary Dempsey, Dennis Cheatham, Richard Hudson-Miles and many others.
There are articles on Experience Design, a user centered study of older adults and ATMs, the importance of introspective conceptual design, 90 years of Philips Design, theories on how undergraduate designers learn, and much much more.
“These and other articles offer different, often contrasting, views on the shifting shapes of designers now and into the future…. I hope these articles start conversations, cultivate dissent and agreement, and provoke reactions of all types…”
Dr. Muireann McMahon.
