OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Kropotkin-19: A Mutual Aid Response to COVID-19 in Athens	12
Critical Co-Design and Agency of the Real	8
From Needs to Desire: Pluriversal Design as a Desire-Based Design	6
Narrativizing the Face Mask as the Design of Dissent at the Intersection of Protest and Pandemic	5
Designing New Futures for Design Education	4
Bioinclusive Collaborative and Participatory Design: A Conceptual Framework and a Research Agenda	4
Matri-Archive, Creativity, and Beadwork: Toward an Inclusive Design Process	2
Un/Making the Plastic Straw: Designerly Inquiries into Disposability	2
Visualizing the Virus	2
The Countless Lives of Newspapers and the Right to Repurpose	2
Special Forum: Designing a World of Many Centers	2
Designing on Western Arrarnta Country: The Ntaria Digital Drawings	2
Designing With or Against Institutions? Dilemmas of Participatory Design in Contested Cities	2
Planty Design Activism: Alliances with Seeds	2
Global Britain in a Competitive Age: The Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy, March 2021, Command Paper 403. by UK Cabinet Office	2
When West Meets East: Uncovering the Chinese Perspective on Design and Designing	1
Stacking Complexities: Reframing Uncertainty through Hybrid Literacies	1
Care Up-Close and Digital: A Designers’ Outlook on the Pandemic in Barcelona	1
Gendered Interactions Mediated by Design: Sexual Harassment on Public Transport	1
Design Struggles: Intersecting Histories, Pedagogies, and Perspectives	1
“It’s like the Wild West”: User Experience (UX) Designers on Ethics and Privacy in Aotearoa New Zealand	1
(In)Visible Participants	1
Materializing Humor: Appropriation as Means of Symbolic Confrontation in the 2013 Protest in Turkey	1
Graphic Activism on WeChat: The Aesthetics of Dissent in the Age of COVID-19	1
Radio as a Tool of Education and Resistance in Brazilian Communities during the Pandemic	1

Between Abstraction and Insufficiency: Some Reflections on Necropolitics and the Ethics of Design Philosophy	1
Situated Products: Making Do in the Public Spaces of Istanbul	1
Design in the Pandemic: Dispatches from the Early Months	1
Another Use, Another Sociality: Some Reflections on Giorgio Agamben’s Radicalization of Use	1
Designing “Down to Earth.” Lessons Learned from Transformative Social Innovation	1
Collections Practice as Design Practice	1
Printing Utopia: The Domain of the 3D Printer in the Making of Commons-Based Futures	0
The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging , by	0
Editorial Note	0
Designing in Dark Times: An Arendtian Lexicon	0
Design and Political Dissent: Spaces, Visuals, Materialities	0
Pushing Back the Walls: The Politics of Maneuver in Women’s Drug Rehabilitation	0
One Million Experiments	0
David Raizman (1951–2021)	0
Queer Print in Europe	0
Numbering and Boat IDs: The Dehumanizing Use of ID Numbers in Australia’s Border Regime	0
Harmonizing Bilingual Layouts: A Proposal of Latin–Arabic Typographic Classifications	0
Co-Cities: Innovative Transitions toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities	0
Feminist Designer: On the Personal and the Political in Design, edited by Alison Place Feminist Designer: On the Personal and the Political in Design, edited by Alison P	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
Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers	0
Good as Gold: Fashioning Senegalese Women, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, September 9, 2020–January 3, 2021	0
Re-Shaping Innovations in the Contemporary Fashion Show: Emerging Aesthetics and the Rising International-Based Chinese Designer Collective	0
Seeing with Fresh Eyes: Meaning, Space, Data, Truth	0
Before Design, More-than-Design: Elucidating “Ontological Design”	0
Design and Heritage: The Construction of Identity and Belonging	0
Looking into Mid-Century Modern Furniture Design in Turkey through Oral History	0
A Lived-in Shape Grammar: Parsing the Dwelling Activities in a Modernist Residential Building in Algiers	0
Reading Graphic Design History: Image, Text, and Content	0
W.E.B. Du Bois and Designs for Abolition Democracy	0
Design Pedagogy for Enhancing Peer Learning and Creative Thinking	0
Time(s) to Listen: Anthropology/Design Encounters in the Design of a Colombian Exhibition on Reconciliation	0
The Aesthetics of Nostalgia TV: Production Design and the Boomer Era	0
Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook	0
A Family of Sensibilities: Toward a Relational Design Practice Grounded in Materiality and Embodiment	0
Jacques and Jacqueline Groag, Architect and Designer: Two Hidden Figures of the Viennese Modern Movement	0
Superhumanity: Design of the Self, Co-edited by Nick Axel, Beatriz Colomina, Nikolaus Hirsch, Anton Vidokle, and Mark Wigley	0
Vital Media: Making, Design, and Expression for Human and Other Materials	0
Design in Crisis: New Worlds, Philosophies, and Perspectives	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
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	0
Audio Essay East Vancouver Dispatch: Ecotones and Subsistence Zones	0
Practice Theory in Industrial Design and Innovation: Materials, Meanings, and Competencies of Electric Wringer-Washers in Turkey from 1950 to the 2000s	0
Design, Nature, and Revolution: Toward a Critical Ecology	0
Victor Papanek: Designer for the Real World *Victor Papanek: Designer for the Real World* , by Alison J. ClarkeCambridge, MA: MIT Press,	0
Double Time Pictures of the Arizona State Prison at Florence	0
Can Design Survive in Chaos? Reconfiguring Design Education While Designing a Digital Interface for Covid-19 Data Collection in Brazil	0
Research for Designers: A Guide to Methods and Practice	0
Design & Solidarity: Conversations on Collective Futures Design & Solidarity: Conversations on Collective Futures , by Rafi Segal and Marisa Morán JahnNew York:	0

Design for the Speculative Future as Cultural Intermediary: Case Study on Chinese Weddings	0
Discursive Design: Critical, Speculative, and Alternative Things, By Bruce and Stephanie Tharp	0
Immutable: Designing History	0
Crafting History: Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy	0
Ecological by Design: A History from Scandinavia	0
The Apotheosis of Steve Jobs: Belief and Desire in the Discourse of Design	0
Screen Interiors: From Country Houses to Cosmic Heterotopias *Screen Interiors: From Country Houses to Cosmic Heterotopias* , edited by	0
The Auto-Ethnographic Turn in Design The Auto-Ethnographic Turn in Design , edited by Louise Schouwenberg and Michael KaethlerAmsterdam: Valiz, 2021, 336 pp. 9789	0
Open Plan: A Design History of the American Office	0
Improvisation, Design, and Sociality during the Pandemic: A Conversation with Denise Milstein from the New York City COVID-19 Oral History, Narrative and Memory Archive	0
Latour for Architects	0
Design Practice Research: Conditions and Outcomes	0
Exploring Autonomy as a Design Principle: Theoretical Review of Autonomy and Case Studies of Service Design for Seniors	0
Travel as a Tool	0
Critical Design in Japan: Material Culture, Luxury, and the Avant-Garde	0
Un/Designing the Borderline: Walls, Bodies, and Creative Resistance	0
Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890–1980	0
Prototyping and Prefiguring through Law Reform: An Interview with Davina Cooper on the FLaG Sex and Gender Decertification Proposal	0
Designing The Authority: Dams, High Modernity, and Colonial Temporal Containment	0
The New Designer: Rejecting Myths, Embracing Change	0
Data Feminism Data Feminism , by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. KleinCambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020, 328 pp. HB 9780262044004. $29.95.	0
W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America	0
Overshot: The Political Aesthetics of Woven Textiles from the Antebellum South and beyond, by Susan Falls and Jessica R. Smith	0
Atlas of Everyday Objects—In the Age of Global Social Isolation	0
What’s the Use? On the Uses of Use	0
The Design of Race: How Visual Culture Shapes America	0
Design Social Change: Take Action, Work Toward Equity, and Challenge the Status Quo	0
Correction	0
Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World	0
Good Nostalgia/Bad Nostalgia	0
Happiness by Design: Modernism and Media in the Eames Era	0
Designing Dissensual Common Sense: Critical Art, Architecture, and Design in Jacques Rancière’s Political Thought	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
Beirut Urban Lab	0
Geographies, Systems, Spaces, and Pictures: Scholars and Practitioners on Designing Against Infrastructures of Harm	0
Design in Iraq: Discourse and its Contextual Transformation	0
Video Essay My Room in a Day	0
Ecologies Otherwise: Mapping Ontological, Speculative, and Transition Design Discourses	0
Editorial	0
Reorienting Design Towards a Decolonial Ethos: Exploring Directions for Decolonial Design	0
The Typographic Medium	0
Generative Design Research for a Culturally Sensitive Subject: Exploring Menstrual Practices and Product Experiences to Inspire Design	0
“The Apple Way”: Foucault, Design, Consumerism, and the Shaping of Apple Subjects	0
“Pirate Care Syllabus,” https://syllabus.pirate.care/	0
Living in Data Living in Data , by Jer ThorpNew York: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021, 276 pp. HB 9780374189907. $30.00	0
Designing DesigningBy John Chris Jones. Revised edition, Radical Thinkers in Design. London: Bloomsbury, 2021, 339pp. PB 9781350070677. $26.95;Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life	0
Moving Objects: A Cultural History of Emotive Design, Moving Objects: A Cultural History of Emotive Design , by Damon TaylorLondon: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020, 248 pp.	0
Living with Scents	0
Experimental Design Atmospheres	0
The Infrastructure of a Local Weaving Practice: Community Relationships for a Participatory Capacity	0
Designing against Infrastructures of Harm: Introduction	0
Space, Supplies, Solidarity in an Intensive Treatment Unit during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Interview with Efie Galiatsou, ITU Doctor in a London Hospital	0
Design Before Design: Learning to be Affected by Neurodiverse Spatial Practices	0
Class of 2020 Reflections: Producing and Pivoting Design in the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
Design and the Social Imagination	0
Visual Essay Corona Mornings	0
Human-Centered AI *Human-Centered AI* , by Ben Shneiderman, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2022, 400pp. ISBN: 97801928452	0
Book Reviews The Persistence of Technology: Histories of Repair, Reuse and Disposal The Persistence of Technology: Histories of Repair, Reuse and Disposal , edited by St	0
Self Help Graphics at Fifty: A Cornerstone of Latinx Art and Collaborative Artmaking	0
Critical Fabulations: Reworking the Methods and Margins of Design, by Daniela K. Rosner	0
(A)way Station	0
Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Birth	0
Design and Democracy: Activist Thoughts and Practical Examples for Sociopolitical Empowerment Design and Democracy: Activist Thoughts and Practical Examples for Sociopolitical Em	0
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:	0
Public Reminiscence and Official Commemoration: The Paris Commune of 1871 and the Gezi Protests of 2013	0