awesome-design-research

A currated list of resources at the intersection of design and research.

Contents

Coding Tools

JavaScript

• p5js - library for creative coding, with a focus on making coding accessible and inclusive for artists, designers, and educators.

Python

• Manim / (Community Edition) - engine for precise programmatic animations, designed for creating explanatory math videos.

Learning

• Code as a Creative Medium, by Golan Levin and Tega Brain, MIT Press, 2021.
  • Solutions to the book.

Academic Programs

• CMU - Human Computer Interaction Institute
• IIT - Institute of Design
• MIT - Media Lab
• NYU - Integrated Design & Media
• USC - Media Arts and Practice

Societies

• Buckminster Fuller Institute - Research into the practice and fundamental principles of comprehensive anticipatory design science.
• Design Research Society - is a learned society committed to promoting and developing design research.

Research Platforms

• Are.na - an online software for saving and organizing the content that is important to you. Akin to Tumblr meets Wikipedia.
• CARI - CARI, or Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute, is an online community dedicated to developing a visual lexicon of consumer ephemera from the 1970s until now.
• PLAZA - imagining a new space for creators and the future of visual research, creation, and exchange (economy) within a collective context.