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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Matri-Archive, Creativity, and Beadwork: Toward an Inclusive Design Process	22
Design, Situated Knowledge, and Collective Action	16
Numbering and Boat IDs: The Dehumanizing Use of ID Numbers in Australia’s Border Regime	9
Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook	8
Illustration and Heritage	8
Seeing with Fresh Eyes: Meaning, Space, Data, Truth	7
Editorial	7
In-Between Spaces: Reflections on the Emerging Scholars Workshop	5
The Disobedience of Design: Gui Bonsiepe	5
Human-Centered AI	5
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	4
Planty Design Activism: Alliances with Seeds	4
Transformative Urban Practice: Supporting the Commons in Spaces of Conflict	3
Exploring Autonomy as a Design Principle: Theoretical Review of Autonomy and Case Studies of Service Design for Seniors	3
Pushing Back the Walls: The Politics of Maneuver in Women’s Drug Rehabilitation	3
“It’s like the Wild West”: User Experience (UX) Designers on Ethics and Privacy in Aotearoa New Zealand	3
African Interlace as Dynamic Grids: New Heritage Algorithms for Diaspora Design Ecologies	3
Bajubá Collection	2
Klingspor Type Archive	2
Crafting History: Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy	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
Designing Modern Japan	2
Gendered Interactions Mediated by Design: Sexual Harassment on Public Transport	2
Designing Peace: Building a Better Future Now	2
W.E.B. Du Bois and Designs for Abolition Democracy	2

(In)Visible Participants	1
Emmett McBain Design Papers	1
Type Out Loud: Re-Presenting Typographic Divergence in the USA	1
Held in Tension: Craft, Design, and Technology	1
A Lived-in Shape Grammar: Parsing the Dwelling Activities in a Modernist Residential Building in Algiers	1
The Emotional Labor of Making Selves, Making Futures: Ethics of Care in Participatory Design Practice for Transformational Change	1
Beirut: Alternative Chronotopes for an Aesthetic Experience of Presence	1
The Architecture of Learning: Space, Time, and Pedagogy in the Open Space School	1
Emoji as a Tool of Cultural Preservation for the Dulong People of China	1
Living with Scents	1
Doing Design Culture Studies; Practicing Design Culture	1
Call to Move Beyond Dieter Rams’ Ten Principles of Good Design	0
Vital Media: Making, Design, and Expression for Human and Other Materials	0
Experimental Design Atmospheres	0
Before Design, More-than-Design: Elucidating “Ontological Design”	0
Un/Designing the Borderline: Walls, Bodies, and Creative Resistance	0
Design Pedagogy for Enhancing Peer Learning and Creative Thinking	0
Digital Visual Identifiers for Sound from Palestine: Exploring Less-Charted Areas in Design Discourse	0
From Needs to Desire: Pluriversal Design as a Desire-Based Design	0
Latour for Architects	0
Double Time Pictures of the Arizona State Prison at Florence	0
Un/Making the Plastic Straw: Designerly Inquiries into Disposability	0
Designing New Futures for Design Education	0
Affective Openings: Embodied Inscriptions in Interaction Design	0
Research for Designers: A Guide to Methods and Practice	0
Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China’s Consumer Revolution	0
Ecological by Design: A History from Scandinavia	0
UNLICENSED: Bootlegging as Creative Practice	0
Design & Solidarity: Conversations on Collective Futures	0
One Million Experiments	0
Ecologies Otherwise: Mapping Ontological, Speculative, and Transition Design Discourses	0
The Infrastructure of a Local Weaving Practice: Community Relationships for a Participatory Capacity	0
Reflective Pedagogical Strategies for Addressing Age-Related Biases in Design Education: Assumption Dumps and Time Capsule Letters	0
Feeling Our Way Forward: Affect, Imaginative Agency, and Design in Future-Making	0
Through Witnessing: Threading the Critiquing, Making, Teaching of Design and Design Otherwise: Transforming Design Education in the Arab Region	0
Special Forum: Designing a World of Many Centers	0
Design Practice Research: Conditions and Outcomes	0
Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers	0
Designing With or Against Institutions? Dilemmas of Participatory Design in Contested Cities	0
Harmonizing Bilingual Layouts: A Proposal of Latin–Arabic Typographic Classifications	0
(We) Stay at [Your] Home: A Visual Essay on Social Distancing	0
Basel Poster Collection	0
(A)way Station	0
The Welcome Neighbors Sign—A Pro-Immigration Design Artifact: How One Yard Sign Became a National Movement of Political Dissent	0
Hush Little Baby: The Invention of Infant Sleep in Modern France	0
Introduction to Design Psychology	0
Design and the Social Imagination	0
Generative Design Research for a Culturally Sensitive Subject: Exploring Menstrual Practices and Product Experiences to Inspire Design	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
Designing against Infrastructures of Harm: Introduction	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
Design for the Speculative Future as Cultural Intermediary: Case Study on Chinese Weddings	0
Here We Do Not Offer Universal Solutions: Reflexive, Relational, and Visual Practices in Design Research	0
The Significance of Cultivating a Dynamic of Trust in Collective Design Practice with Indigenous Communities: Learnings from the Field	0
Design Before Design: Learning to be Affected by Neurodiverse Spatial Practices	0
Correction	0
“The Apple Way”: Foucault, Design, Consumerism, and the Shaping of Apple Subjects	0
Design Social Change: Take Action, Work Toward Equity, and Challenge the Status Quo	0
“when life is happening, design has meaning”: Reflections from the Outgoing Editors	0
The Apotheosis of Steve Jobs: Belief and Desire in the Discourse of Design	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
On seeing crossings: Dover/Calais	0
Design History and Culture: Methods and Approaches	0
Homes at Work: Urban Informality and Recognition in Latin America and Africa	0
The Typographic Medium	0
Towards a “Glocal” Teaching of the History of Graphic Design	0
Peace by Design	0
Co-Cities: Innovative Transitions toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities	0
Feminist Designer: On the Personal and the Political in Design	0
Screen Interiors: From Country Houses to Cosmic Heterotopias	0
Self Help Graphics at Fifty: A Cornerstone of Latinx Art and Collaborative Artmaking	0
Geographies, Systems, Spaces, and Pictures: Scholars and Practitioners on Designing Against Infrastructures of Harm	0
Immutable: Designing History	0
Colonial Performances in More-than-Human Design	0
Time(s) to Listen: Anthropology/Design Encounters in the Design of a Colombian Exhibition on Reconciliation	0
Fen-Orchids, a Garden, and a Tandem in the (Post-)Jungle: Unsettling Care and Control in the European Borderscape	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
Bridging Boundaries: Unveiling Bourdieu’s “Thinking Tools” in Design Interventions with Youth	0
Editorial Note	0
Design Social Change: Take Action, Work Toward Equity, and Challenge the Status Quo	0
Contemporary Chinese Graphic Design Practice	0
Post Terrona and Her Soil	0
“Pirate Care Syllabus,” https://syllabus.pirate.care/	0
Designing on Western Arrarnta Country: The Ntaria Digital Drawings	0
Designing and Researching from Affection: An Ethnography on the Creative Practices of Cartoneros *	0
Design Aesthetics: Theoretical Basics and Studies in Implication	0
Printing Utopia: The Domain of the 3D Printer in the Making of Commons-Based Futures	0
Fashion, Disability, and Co-Design: A Human-Centered Design Approach	0
Designing “Down to Earth.” Lessons Learned from Transformative Social Innovation	0
Looking into Mid-Century Modern Furniture Design in Turkey through Oral History	0
When West Meets East: Uncovering the Chinese Perspective on Design and Designing	0
Coloniality and Architectural Pedagogies in the Global South: Τhe Case Studies of KNUST in Ghana and Ciudad Abierta/PUCV in Chile	0
Designing a Level Playing Field: The Design Politics of the Baby Box in Scotland	0
The New Designer: Rejecting Myths, Embracing Change	0
Reorienting Design Towards a Decolonial Ethos: Exploring Directions for Decolonial Design	0
Designing The Authority: Dams, High Modernity, and Colonial Temporal Containment	0
Queer Print in Europe	0
Prototyping and Prefiguring through Law Reform: An Interview with Davina Cooper on the FLaG Sex and Gender Decertification Proposal	0