Design Research

• Design Plus Research Conference, 2008, Milanhttp://pcsiwa12.rett.polimi.it/~phddi/uk/01/dpr00/intro.htm
• Cross, Nigel., 1990, The nature and nurture of design ability, Design Studies, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 127-140
• Cross, Nigel., 1999, “Natural intelligence in design”, Design Studies, vol.20, no. 1, pp.25-39
• Cross, Nigel., 2001. Designerly Ways of Knowing: Design Discipline Versus Design Science, Design Issues, 17 (3), 49-55
• Findeli, A., 1994, Ethics, Aesthetics, and Design, Design Issues,Vol. 10, No. 2. (Summer), pp. 49-68.
• Manzini Ezio (2000) Design Research: Reasons and Possibilities; The Production of a Design Knowledge taking time in the age of real-time, see Proceedings of the Politecnico di Milano Conference, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, May 18-20, pp.13-15.http://pcsiwa12.rett.polimi.it/~phddi/uk/01/dpr00/rtf/013.zip
• Saikaly, Fatina, 2006, Approaches to Design Research: Towards the Designerly Way in: Proceedings to the EAD06 Conference,http://ead.verhaag.net/fullpapers/ead06_id187_2.pdf

Design Research Community

• PHD-Design list: To Join click on 'Join or Leave PHD-Design' - https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=PHD-DESIGN
• Design Research News: To Join the e-newsletter click on 'Join or Leave Design Research'- https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=DESIGN-RESEARCH
• Design Philosophy: Online journal http://www.desphilosophy.com/dpp/dpp_journal/journal.html
• General Research Network: like social networking software for researchers http://www.academia.edu/, https://www.researchgate.net
  

Design/Practice-led Research

• Special Issue:Design Issues, Vol. 15, No. 2, Design Research (Summer, 1999)
• Findeli, Alain., Brouillet, Denis., Martin, Sohie., Molneau, Christophe. & Tarrago, Richard., 2008, Research Through Design and Transdiciplinarity: A Tentative Contribution to the Methodology of Design Research, In the proceedings of ‘Focused’, Swiss Design Network Symposium, Bern, 30-31 May, pp.67-91, http://5-10-20.ch/~sdn/SDN08_pdf_conference%20papers/04_Findeli.pdf

Sustainable Design Projects

• The Sharing Solution:http://www.sharingsolution.com/
• The IOBYproject in New York:http://www.ioby.org/
• Ezio Manzini's work:www.sustainable-everyday.net
• Collection of Links http://nordicdogs.com/links/
• Attainable Utopias online: Set up by John Wood and others http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/tiki-index.php

Sustainability Related References

• Natural Capitalism - Creating the New Industrial Revolution: Online resource http://www.natcap.org/
  (also see Hawken P., Lovins A.B., and Lovins H. (1999) Natural Capital, Little Brown, London.)
  

History of Creative-Based Research pre-post Enlightenment

• Williams, Raymond (1981)CultureFontana (Glasgow)
• Wolff, Janet (1981)The Social Production of ArtMacmillan (London)
• Zolberg, Vera (1990)Constructing a Sociology of the ArtsCambridge UP (Cambridge, NY)
• Copeland, Alexandra (1996) “The Arts Grow Cold”Australia Art Monthly95, November, 19-26
• Sullivan, G. (2005). Art practice as research: Inquiry in the visual arts. Thousand Oaks, CA:SAGE. (http://books.google.com/books?id=fB90twO3v-wC&printsec=frontcover)