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PAPERS: Discourses in Design Research: Genealogies, Archaeologies, and Architectures Location: Appleton Tower, LT4 Zoom link accessibility: https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-edinburgh/central-area/access-guides/appleton-lecture-theatre-4-edinburgh Session Chair: Moa Carlsson, University of Edinburgh Session Chair: Peter Lloyd, Delft University of Technology | |
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Toward an Architectural Model of Design Methods: Meta-Methods, Proto-Methods, and Method Building Blocks 1: Indiana University Bloomington, United States of America; 2: Pratt Institute, United States of America Design methods have long occupied a central yet ambiguous role in design research. They are invoked as distillations of procedural knowledge and recipes for action but also function as placeholders for more complex performances. Yet the persistent assumption that methods are checklists—mechanical sequences of steps that can be validated or optimized—has obscured their performative and situated dimensions. This paper revisits the nature of methods through an architectural model that distinguishes between meta-methods, proto-methods, and method building blocks. Drawing from historical, theoretical, and empirical discussions, we argue that methods are best understood as assemblages of prescription and performance, whose coherence emerges through current and speculative future patterns of use. View Paper: https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.1426
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