Abstract
The open track welcomes design research that explores distinctive directions beyond the conference's thematic streams, thereby enriching the scholarly discourse with diverse perspectives. The selected papers are divided into four sessions. The first session, Relational and Situated Design Practice, foregrounds embodiment, exchange, co-exploration, ritual performance, feminist critique, and cultural remembrance. The second session, Material, Mind and Machine, investigates the entanglements among physical matter, human cognition, and computational processes, challenging the separation among the object, the mind, and the machine that mediates them. The third session, Strategic Design Practices for Learning, Attention, and Co-Creation, discusses strategic design, together with means of engaging with complex problems in contemporary organizations and across different fields, and the fourth session, Human Experience in Product and Interface Design, brings together empirical studies across product design, interface and interaction design and studies that deal with customer reaction to advertising strategies and customer decision-making journeys.
Keywords
relational design, situated design, materiality, human cognition, strategic design, product interface, human experience
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.280
Citation
Zohar, H., de Götzen, A., and Horvath, A. (2026) Extended Directions in Design Research, in Simeone, L., Gray, C. M., Verhoeven, A., de Götzen, A., Bakırlıoğlu, Y., Zohar, H., Stead, M., and Buwert, P. (eds.), DRS2026: Edinburgh, 8–12 June, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.280
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Extended Directions in Design Research
The open track welcomes design research that explores distinctive directions beyond the conference's thematic streams, thereby enriching the scholarly discourse with diverse perspectives. The selected papers are divided into four sessions. The first session, Relational and Situated Design Practice, foregrounds embodiment, exchange, co-exploration, ritual performance, feminist critique, and cultural remembrance. The second session, Material, Mind and Machine, investigates the entanglements among physical matter, human cognition, and computational processes, challenging the separation among the object, the mind, and the machine that mediates them. The third session, Strategic Design Practices for Learning, Attention, and Co-Creation, discusses strategic design, together with means of engaging with complex problems in contemporary organizations and across different fields, and the fourth session, Human Experience in Product and Interface Design, brings together empirical studies across product design, interface and interaction design and studies that deal with customer reaction to advertising strategies and customer decision-making journeys.