OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Design and Culture is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Matri-Archive, Creativity, and Beadwork: Toward an Inclusive Design Process	18
Design, Situated Knowledge, and Collective Action	16
Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook	8
Numbering and Boat IDs: The Dehumanizing Use of ID Numbers in Australia’s Border Regime	8
Illustration and Heritage	7
Editorial	6
Seeing with Fresh Eyes: Meaning, Space, Data, Truth	5
The Disobedience of Design: Gui Bonsiepe	4
Human-Centered AI	4
Big Data, Big Design: Why Designers Should Care about Artificial Intelligence Big Data, Big Design: Why Designers Should Care about Artificial Intelligence , by Helen A	3
“It’s like the Wild West”: User Experience (UX) Designers on Ethics and Privacy in Aotearoa New Zealand	3
In-Between Spaces: Reflections on the Emerging Scholars Workshop	3
Transformative Urban Practice: Supporting the Commons in Spaces of Conflict	3
Planty Design Activism: Alliances with Seeds	3
Pushing Back the Walls: The Politics of Maneuver in Women’s Drug Rehabilitation	3
Bajubá Collection	2
African Interlace as Dynamic Grids: New Heritage Algorithms for Diaspora Design Ecologies	2
Caps Lock: How Capitalism Took Hold of Graphic Design and How to Escape from It Caps Lock: How Capitalism Took Hold of Graphic Design and How to Escape from It, by Ruben PaterValiz:	2
Gendered Interactions Mediated by Design: Sexual Harassment on Public Transport	2
Exploring Autonomy as a Design Principle: Theoretical Review of Autonomy and Case Studies of Service Design for Seniors	2
Crafting History: Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy	1
Klingspor Type Archive	1
Emmett McBain Design Papers	1
The Architecture of Learning: Space, Time, and Pedagogy in the Open Space School	1
Beirut: Alternative Chronotopes for an Aesthetic Experience of Presence	1

W.E.B. Du Bois and Designs for Abolition Democracy	1
Designing Peace: Building a Better Future Now	1
Emoji as a Tool of Cultural Preservation for the Dulong People of China	1
Type Out Loud: Re-Presenting Typographic Divergence in the USA	1
Living with Scents	1
Designing Modern Japan	1
A Lived-in Shape Grammar: Parsing the Dwelling Activities in a Modernist Residential Building in Algiers	1
(In)Visible Participants	1
Doing Design Culture Studies; Practicing Design Culture	1
Design for the Speculative Future as Cultural Intermediary: Case Study on Chinese Weddings	0
Research for Designers: A Guide to Methods and Practice	0
Immutable: Designing History	0
Designing against Infrastructures of Harm: Introduction	0
Fen-Orchids, a Garden, and a Tandem in the (Post-)Jungle: Unsettling Care and Control in the European Borderscape	0
Printing Utopia: The Domain of the 3D Printer in the Making of Commons-Based Futures	0
Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China’s Consumer Revolution	0
Self-Organized Social and Physical Livelihood Assets in State-Driven Urban Developments: A Case of Shekilango Commercial Street, Sinza – Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	0
“The Apple Way”: Foucault, Design, Consumerism, and the Shaping of Apple Subjects	0
On seeing crossings: Dover/Calais	0
One Million Experiments	0
Looking into Mid-Century Modern Furniture Design in Turkey through Oral History	0
Reorienting Design Towards a Decolonial Ethos: Exploring Directions for Decolonial Design	0
Special Forum: Designing a World of Many Centers	0
Design and the Social Imagination	0
“Pirate Care Syllabus,” https://syllabus.pirate.care/	0
Queer Print in Europe	0
Experimental Design Atmospheres	0
Design History and Culture: Methods and Approaches	0
Colonial Performances in More-than-Human Design	0
Generative Design Research for a Culturally Sensitive Subject: Exploring Menstrual Practices and Product Experiences to Inspire Design	0
The New Designer: Rejecting Myths, Embracing Change	0
Design and Heritage: The Construction of Identity and Belonging	0
Interfaces and Us: User Experience Design and the Making of the Computable Subject	0
Design Practice Research: Conditions and Outcomes	0
Editorial Note	0
Un/Making the Plastic Straw: Designerly Inquiries into Disposability	0
Designing New Futures for Design Education	0
Contemporary Chinese Graphic Design Practice	0
Correction	0
Before Design, More-than-Design: Elucidating “Ontological Design”	0
Living in Data Living in Data , by Jer ThorpNew York: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021, 276 pp. HB 9780374189907. $30.00	0
Harmonizing Bilingual Layouts: A Proposal of Latin–Arabic Typographic Classifications	0
Design & Solidarity: Conversations on Collective Futures	0
Self Help Graphics at Fifty: A Cornerstone of Latinx Art and Collaborative Artmaking	0
Ecologies Otherwise: Mapping Ontological, Speculative, and Transition Design Discourses	0
Design Aesthetics: Theoretical Basics and Studies in Implication	0
Ecological by Design: A History from Scandinavia	0
“when life is happening, design has meaning”: Reflections from the Outgoing Editors	0
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall , by Alexandra LangeNew York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022,	0
The Welcome Neighbors Sign—A Pro-Immigration Design Artifact: How One Yard Sign Became a National Movement of Political Dissent	0

Designing With or Against Institutions? Dilemmas of Participatory Design in Contested Cities	0
Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers	0
Prototyping and Prefiguring through Law Reform: An Interview with Davina Cooper on the FLaG Sex and Gender Decertification Proposal	0
Screen Interiors: From Country Houses to Cosmic Heterotopias	0
(We) Stay at [Your] Home: A Visual Essay on Social Distancing	0
Hush Little Baby: The Invention of Infant Sleep in Modern France	0
Towards a “Glocal” Teaching of the History of Graphic Design	0
Through Witnessing: Threading the Critiquing, Making, Teaching of Design and Design Otherwise: Transforming Design Education in the Arab Region	0
Design Pedagogy for Enhancing Peer Learning and Creative Thinking	0
Peace by Design	0
Designing on Western Arrarnta Country: The Ntaria Digital Drawings	0
Designing the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Assessment in the New York City Jails: A Visual Abolitionist Resistance to Data Infrastructures of Harm	0
Call to Move Beyond Dieter Rams’ Ten Principles of Good Design	0
Double Time Pictures of the Arizona State Prison at Florence	0
Post Terrona and Her Soil	0
(A)way Station	0
Design Before Design: Learning to be Affected by Neurodiverse Spatial Practices	0
Latour for Architects	0
Introduction to Design Psychology	0
Design Social Change: Take Action, Work Toward Equity, and Challenge the Status Quo	0
Digital Visual Identifiers for Sound from Palestine: Exploring Less-Charted Areas in Design Discourse	0
The Apotheosis of Steve Jobs: Belief and Desire in the Discourse of Design	0
Held in Tension: Craft, Design, and Technology	0
When West Meets East: Uncovering the Chinese Perspective on Design and Designing	0
UNLICENSED: Bootlegging as Creative Practice	0
Fashion, Disability, and Co-Design: A Human-Centered Design Approach	0
Vital Media: Making, Design, and Expression for Human and Other Materials	0
The Typographic Medium	0
Designing a Level Playing Field: The Design Politics of the Baby Box in Scotland	0
Designing “Down to Earth.” Lessons Learned from Transformative Social Innovation	0
The Infrastructure of a Local Weaving Practice: Community Relationships for a Participatory Capacity	0
Co-Cities: Innovative Transitions toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities	0
Geographies, Systems, Spaces, and Pictures: Scholars and Practitioners on Designing Against Infrastructures of Harm	0
Coloniality and Architectural Pedagogies in the Global South: Τhe Case Studies of KNUST in Ghana and Ciudad Abierta/PUCV in Chile	0
Homes at Work: Urban Informality and Recognition in Latin America and Africa	0
Feminist Designer: On the Personal and the Political in Design	0
Un/Designing the Borderline: Walls, Bodies, and Creative Resistance	0
Bridging Boundaries: Unveiling Bourdieu’s “Thinking Tools” in Design Interventions with Youth	0
Time(s) to Listen: Anthropology/Design Encounters in the Design of a Colombian Exhibition on Reconciliation	0
Reflective Pedagogical Strategies for Addressing Age-Related Biases in Design Education: Assumption Dumps and Time Capsule Letters	0
From Needs to Desire: Pluriversal Design as a Desire-Based Design	0
Design Social Change: Take Action, Work Toward Equity, and Challenge the Status Quo	0
Designing The Authority: Dams, High Modernity, and Colonial Temporal Containment	0