Emphasizes "Research by Design"

FORMakademisk is a new Norwegian/Scandinavian design research journal with emphasis on Research by Design. The journal is published on the Open Journal System and is ratet level 1 (lowest level of two levels) in the Norwegian academic publication rating system. All articles are internationally peer reviewed.

In their introduction to the issue, the editors promises a look into ”a growing domain of design research that takes up relations between practice and theory that are pertinent for inquiry in the interdisciplinary approaches and frameworks that are often central to research in design”.

The collection of articles show wide range of established and emerging design research areas, methods and analyses, indicating ”how far design research has moved from earlier locations in craft traditions and historical analyses and characterisations and perspectives lodged in industrial design. These views do still matter, but they are now part of the changing profession of design and a burgeoning body of international research”.

The majority of the peer reviewed articles in the issue are contributed by design researchers from AHO, who in some way or other is engaged in Research by Design:

• Discussions & Movements in Design Research Birger Sevaldson
• Performance-oriented Architecture: Towards a Biological Paradigm for Architectural Design and the Built Environment Michael Ulrich Hensel
• Have You Heard This? Designing Mobile Social Software Jørn Georg Sannes Knutsen, Andrew Morrison
• Connecting motional form to interface actions in web browsing: Investigating through motion sketching Jon Olav Eikenes
• Depth of Field: Discursive design research through film Timo Arnall, Einar Sneve Martinussen
• Designing performativity for mixed reality installations Andrew Morrison, Alex Davies, Geska Brečević, Idunn Sem, Tim Boykett, Robert Brečević

Read the whole journal FORMakademisk Vol 3 nr 1 here