Design Practice as a Discursive and Interrogating Performance

Abstract

This PhD is focused on how design can play a role in engaging people in potential serious issues, or producing forms of knowledge that are still unstable, or controversial. The research is based on a series of hands-on explorations in the sense that I design and evaluate a set of discursive concepts that in different ways aim to mediate and visualise those issues. This paper presents the status of two different research projects in relation to my current key areas of research where I employ my skills within interaction and product design in a co-design research environment.