PhD By Design: bringing together practice-based design researchers
PhD By Design is a platform to discuss and explore the messiness of doing practice-based research as a designer. From 2014 - 2019 PhD By Design events enabled over 284 early career design researchers from over 124 different institutions in 38 countries to come together to explore a variety of aspects of knowledge production within the academic institution.
The platform started in November 2014 with a two-day conference at Goldsmiths (London, UK) that brought people together to share questions that emerge from their practice-based research. Since, PhD By Design has expanded into a series of study and workshop days, documented through a range of publications, to share and discuss pressing research related issues. These events feed into the growing PhD By Design mailing list, twitter, tumblr and searchable platform that enable national and international conversations to happen amongst the practice-based design research community. Design research is changing and this platform catalyses many of these new developments.
PhD By Design was initiated by design researchers Maria Portugal, Alison Thomson, Bianca Elzenbaumer and Søren Rosenbak.
