Design Research Society

Design Research Society
Company typeCharity
Founded1966
HeadquartersUnited Kingdom
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
John Chris Jones,
L. Bruce Archer,
Nigel Cross
Websitewww.designresearchsociety.org

The Design Research Society (DRS), founded in the United Kingdom in 1966,[1][2][3] is an international society for developing and supporting the interests of the design research community. The primary purpose of the DRS, as embodied in its first statement of rules, is to promote ‘the study of and research into the process of designing in all its many fields'. This established the intention of being an interdisciplinary learned society, taking a scholarly and domain independent view of the process of designing. Membership is open to anyone interested in design research, and members with established experience and a strong background in design research may apply to be elected as a DRS Fellow.[4]

  1. ^ Bayazit, N. (2004). Investigating Design: A review of forty years of design research, Design Issues, Vol. 20, No. 1, p.24.
  2. ^ Tovey, M. (2011). Researching Design Education. In E. Bohemia, B. Borja de Mozota & L. Collina (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium for Design Education Researchers Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine (pp. 1-8). Paris, France: CUMULUS // DRS.
  3. ^ Cross, N. (2007). Editorial: Forty Years of Design Research, Design Studies, Vol. 28, No. 1
  4. ^ "Fellows".