Design Research emerged as a recognisable discipline in the nineteen-sixties, initially marked by a conference on design methods at Imperial College, London in 1963. It built a network of practitioners and academics, and led to the founding of the Design Research Society (DRS) in 1967. The DRS conference proceedings and subsequently the journal Design Studies are primary references charting the development of the discipline. L. Bruce Archer founded the first Department of Design Research at the Royal College of Art, London, becoming the first Professor of Design Research.

External links

• Design Council on Academic Design Research Design Council one stop shop information resource on Design Research by Prof. Rachel Cooper and Prof. Mike Press.

Design Research Society

Design Studies