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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Matri-Archive, Creativity, and Beadwork: Toward an Inclusive Design Process	18
Design, Situated Knowledge, and Collective Action	13
Numbering and Boat IDs: The Dehumanizing Use of ID Numbers in Australia’s Border Regime	8
Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook	8
Illustration and Heritage	6
Editorial	5
Seeing with Fresh Eyes: Meaning, Space, Data, Truth	5
The Disobedience of Design: Gui Bonsiepe	4
Human-Centered AI	4
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
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
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
Bajubá Collection	2
African Interlace as Dynamic Grids: New Heritage Algorithms for Diaspora Design Ecologies	2
Living with Scents	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
A Lived-in Shape Grammar: Parsing the Dwelling Activities in a Modernist Residential Building in Algiers	1
Designing Modern Japan	1

Designing Peace: Building a Better Future Now	1
(In)Visible Participants	1
Type Out Loud: Re-Presenting Typographic Divergence in the USA	1
Crafting History: Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy	1
Klingspor Type Archive	1
Emmett McBain Design Papers	1
Design and Democracy: Activist Thoughts and Practical Examples for Sociopolitical Empowerment Design and Democracy: Activist Thoughts and Practical Examples for Sociopolitical Em	1
Doing Design Culture Studies; Practicing Design Culture	1
W.E.B. Du Bois and Designs for Abolition Democracy	1
Another Use, Another Sociality: Some Reflections on Giorgio Agamben’s Radicalization of Use	1
Vital Media: Making, Design, and Expression for Human and Other Materials	0
When West Meets East: Uncovering the Chinese Perspective on Design and Designing	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 Apple Way”: Foucault, Design, Consumerism, and the Shaping of Apple Subjects	0
The Typographic Medium	0
The Welcome Neighbors Sign—A Pro-Immigration Design Artifact: How One Yard Sign Became a National Movement of Political Dissent	0
UNLICENSED: Bootlegging as Creative Practice	0
Colonial Performances in More-than-Human Design	0
Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers	0
Fashion, Disability, and Co-Design: A Human-Centered Design Approach	0
Geographies, Systems, Spaces, and Pictures: Scholars and Practitioners on Designing Against Infrastructures of Harm	0
Design Pedagogy for Enhancing Peer Learning and Creative Thinking	0
Reflective Pedagogical Strategies for Addressing Age-Related Biases in Design Education: Assumption Dumps and Time Capsule Letters	0
Looking into Mid-Century Modern Furniture Design in Turkey through Oral History	0
Hush Little Baby: The Invention of Infant Sleep in Modern France	0
Coloniality and Architectural Pedagogies in the Global South: Τhe Case Studies of KNUST in Ghana and Ciudad Abierta/PUCV in Chile	0
Designing “Down to Earth.” Lessons Learned from Transformative Social Innovation	0
Un/Making the Plastic Straw: Designerly Inquiries into Disposability	0
The New Designer: Rejecting Myths, Embracing Change	0
From Needs to Desire: Pluriversal Design as a Desire-Based Design	0
Designing With or Against Institutions? Dilemmas of Participatory Design in Contested Cities	0
Design Practice Research: Conditions and Outcomes	0
Design Before Design: Learning to be Affected by Neurodiverse Spatial Practices	0
Designing New Futures for Design Education	0
Designing against Infrastructures of Harm: Introduction	0
Before Design, More-than-Design: Elucidating “Ontological Design”	0
Printing Utopia: The Domain of the 3D Printer in the Making of Commons-Based Futures	0
Harmonizing Bilingual Layouts: A Proposal of Latin–Arabic Typographic Classifications	0
Bridging Boundaries: Unveiling Bourdieu’s “Thinking Tools” in Design Interventions with Youth	0
(We) Stay at [Your] Home: A Visual Essay on Social Distancing	0
On seeing crossings: Dover/Calais	0
Homes at Work: Urban Informality and Recognition in Latin America and Africa	0
Held in Tension: Craft, Design, and Technology	0
Reorienting Design Towards a Decolonial Ethos: Exploring Directions for Decolonial Design	0
Designing a Level Playing Field: The Design Politics of the Baby Box in Scotland	0
One Million Experiments	0
Design and the Social Imagination	0
Co-Cities: Innovative Transitions toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities	0
Self Help Graphics at Fifty: A Cornerstone of Latinx Art and Collaborative Artmaking	0
Time(s) to Listen: Anthropology/Design Encounters in the Design of a Colombian Exhibition on Reconciliation	0

Latour for Architects	0
“Pirate Care Syllabus,” https://syllabus.pirate.care/	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 the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Assessment in the New York City Jails: A Visual Abolitionist Resistance to Data Infrastructures of Harm	0
Towards a “Glocal” Teaching of the History of Graphic Design	0
Design and Heritage: The Construction of Identity and Belonging	0
Post Terrona and Her Soil	0
Peace by Design	0
Editorial Note	0
Interfaces and Us: User Experience Design and the Making of the Computable Subject	0
Call to Move Beyond Dieter Rams’ Ten Principles of Good Design	0
Design for the Speculative Future as Cultural Intermediary: Case Study on Chinese Weddings	0
(A)way Station	0
Living in Data Living in Data , by Jer ThorpNew York: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021, 276 pp. HB 9780374189907. $30.00	0
Introduction to Design Psychology	0
Design & Solidarity: Conversations on Collective Futures	0
Digital Visual Identifiers for Sound from Palestine: Exploring Less-Charted Areas in Design Discourse	0
Ecologies Otherwise: Mapping Ontological, Speculative, and Transition Design Discourses	0
Beirut: Alternative Chronotopes for an Aesthetic Experience of Presence	0
Ecological by Design: A History from Scandinavia	0
Re-Shaping Innovations in the Contemporary Fashion Show: Emerging Aesthetics and the Rising International-Based Chinese Designer Collective	0
Design Aesthetics: Theoretical Basics and Studies in Implication	0
Correction	0
Special Forum: Designing a World of Many Centers	0
“when life is happening, design has meaning”: Reflections from the Outgoing Editors	0
Prototyping and Prefiguring through Law Reform: An Interview with Davina Cooper on the FLaG Sex and Gender Decertification Proposal	0
Queer Print in Europe	0
Experimental Design Atmospheres	0
The Infrastructure of a Local Weaving Practice: Community Relationships for a Participatory Capacity	0
Generative Design Research for a Culturally Sensitive Subject: Exploring Menstrual Practices and Product Experiences to Inspire Design	0
Screen Interiors: From Country Houses to Cosmic Heterotopias	0
Design History and Culture: Methods and Approaches	0
Design Social Change: Take Action, Work Toward Equity, and Challenge the Status Quo	0
Un/Designing the Borderline: Walls, Bodies, and Creative Resistance	0
Designing on Western Arrarnta Country: The Ntaria Digital Drawings	0
Research for Designers: A Guide to Methods and Practice	0
Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China’s Consumer Revolution	0
Double Time Pictures of the Arizona State Prison at Florence	0
Feminist Designer: On the Personal and the Political in Design	0
Designing The Authority: Dams, High Modernity, and Colonial Temporal Containment	0
Contemporary Chinese Graphic Design Practice	0
Immutable: Designing History	0
Design Social Change: Take Action, Work Toward Equity, and Challenge the Status Quo	0
Fen-Orchids, a Garden, and a Tandem in the (Post-)Jungle: Unsettling Care and Control in the European Borderscape	0
The Apotheosis of Steve Jobs: Belief and Desire in the Discourse of Design	0