Design Philosophy Papers commenced publication in March 2003. All back issues, themes and papers are listed below.  
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1/2003 unsustainability   2/2003 beauty   3/2003 mediage  4/2003 technology as environment  5/2003 design & time, design education  6/2003 design’s other

1/2004 user-centred design  2/2004 design ethics  3/2004 de/re/materialisation  
4/2004 urbocentrism   1/2005 scenarios/futures  2/2005 de/re/materialisation take-two

3/2005 homelessness  4/2005 design-in-action  1/2006 the review issue  2/2006 and 3/2006 design, philosophy, ethics   4/2006 new directions  1/2007 transition 2/2007 building dwelling futures 3-4/2007 the everyday as locus of sustainment  1/2008 technological angst

 

Issue 1, 2003

Anne-Marie Willis Editorial: Opening lines on unsustainability

Ezio Manzini Scenarios of Sustainable Wellbeing

Augustin Berque The Idea of Disurbanity

Tony Fry The Voice of Sustainment: An Introduction

Tony Fry Watch this Space: Introducing Hot Debate

Issue 2, 2003

Anne-Marie Willis Editorial: Tainted Beauty

Karsten Harries Why Beauty Matters

Cameron Tonkinwise Beauty-in-Use

Tony Fry Why Philosophy?

William McNeill Approaching the Sustainment with Heidegger

Tony Fry & Clive Dilnot Manifesto for Redirective Design

Issue 3, 2003

Anne-Marie Willis Editorial: Mediage

Tony Fry Televisual Designing

Abby Mellick Lopes Televisual Anaesthesia

Daniel Palmer The Paradox of User Control

Tony Fry Touching the Wall of Silence                                                                  

Tony Fry & Clive Dilnot Manifesto for Redirective Design (replay)

Graeme Byrne Wittgensteinian Mechanics (review of Bucciarelli, Engineering Philosophy)

Issue 4, 2003

Anne-Marie Willis Editorial: Technology as Environment

Aidan Davison Rapt in Technology

Nicholas Makelburge Computing Against the Grain

Tony Fry Elimination by Design

Ezio Manzini & Francois Jegou Sustainable Everyday

Tony Fry The Impossible

Victor Margolin Urban Underside (review of endcommercial: reading the city)

Anne-Marie Willis Chimeral Cities (review of After-Images of the City)

Issue 5, 2003

Anne-Marie Willis Editorial: Design Time and Design Education

John Wood Designing Clocks to Sustain Synergy

Francesca Spanedda 4D city

Wolfgang Jonas Design, Time and Not Knowing

Ken Friedman  Design Education in the University: A Philosophical & Socio-Economic Inquiry (hot debate)

Hazel Clark  How, What and Who Should We Teach? (hot debate)

Gregory Ulmer  Design Education and Electracy (hot debate)

Tony Fry  Dead Institution Walking: The University, Crisis, Design & Remaking (hot debate)

Abby Mellick Lopes  The Politics of Design Conversations (review of Victor Margolin’s Politics of the Artificial)

Tony Fry  The Dialectic of Sustainment

Issue 6, 2003/04

Anne-Marie Willis Editorial: Design’s Other

Stanislaus Fung Here and There in Yuan Ye

Samer Akkach Design and the Question of Eurocentricity

Francois-Xavier Nzi iyo Nsenga Beyond McWorld Design

Kati Reijonen Design and Developing Countries

Tony Fry Betwixt Betwixt Design’s Others

Victor Margolin Re-visioning Design Practice (hot debate)

Abby Mellick Lopes Design as Politics (hot debate)

Tony Fry Design and the Political (hot debate)

Cameron Tonkinwise Designing Philosophically (review of Vilem Flusser The Shape of Things: A Philosophy of Design)

Tony Fry An Other Economy

Issue 1, 2004
Anne-Marie Willis Editorial: User-centred design

Paul Rothstein & Michelle Tornello Shirey User-Centred Research: a status report

Stella Boess Designing Towards Ways of Living

Raija Halonen Users, Not Necessarily Choosers

Peter Lloyd Paradox of the Average

Tony Fry Design, the Other and the Ethical

Anders Rønnau Obscuring Design Philosophy through the Misuse of Physics (hot debate)

Anne-Marie Willis Open Door or Closed Shop? (review of Nelson & Stolterman The Design Way)

Tony Fry The Cultural Politics of Politics of Nature (review of Bruno Latour Politics of Nature)

Issue 2, 2004
Anne-Marie Willis Editorial: Design Ethics

Sean Donahue Discipline Specific Ethics  

Carla Martins Cipolla Tourist or Guest?

Jack Elliott Reconciling Eco-Ethics and Aesthetics

Cameron Tonkinwise Ethics by Design, or the Ethos of Things

Tony Fry Design Ethics as Futuring

John Wood  More Synergy Needed  (hot debate – reply to Anders Rønnau)

Issue 3, 2004
Anne-Marie Willis Editorial: De/re/materialisation

Albert Borgmann Information & Inhabitation: toward an architecture of disclosure & enclosure  

Cameron Tonkinwise Is Design Finished? dematerialisation & changing things

Tony Fry Rematerialisation as a Prospective Project

Anne-Marie Willis  Imperatives Effaced  (hot debate)

Issue 4, 2004
Anne-Marie Willis Editorial: Urbocentrism

Tony Fry From Urbocentrism to Hyperurbanism  

Aidan Davison Street Lights at the End of the Universe

Augustin Berque Inauthenticity of home, insecurity at heart

Tony Fry  Lights Out  (hot debate – reply to Aidan Davison)

Tony Fry  On Design Intelligence   

Issue 1, 2005

Anne-Marie Willis Scenarios, Futures and Design

Ezio Manzini  Interviewed on Scenarios for Sustainability 

Tony Fry  The Scenario of Design  

Anne-Marie Willis  Reviews in Brief: Manzini/Jegou Sustainable Everyday; Jonas/Meyer-Veden, Mind the Gap;  The Archeworks Papers

Issue 2, 2005
Anne-Marie Willis  Editorial: De/re/materialisation (contra-futures) – take two 

Johan Redström On Technology as Material in Design

Wolfgang Jonas  Dematerialisation through Body Orientation  

Tony Fry & AM WIllis  Ecologies of Steel: an introduction  

(re-run) Albert Borgmann Information & Inhabitation: toward an architecture of disclosure & enclosure  

(re-run) Cameron Tonkinwise Is Design Finished? dematerialisation & changing things

(re-run) Tony Fry Rematerialisation as a Prospective Project

(re-run) Tony Fry  On Design Intelligence   

(re-run) Tony Fry Elimination by Design

Issue 3, 2005

Anne-Marie Willis  Editorial: on homelessness

Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos  Design, waste and homelessness

Ranjana Mital  Not homeless, but houseless in Delhi

Tiiu Poldma  Teaching design by confronting homelessness

Anne Edwards  A lack of design: homelessness policy

Tony Fry  Homelessness: a philosophical architecture

Ken Straiton  Images of Homeless settlement in Tokyo

Issue 4, 2005

Anne-Marie Willis  Editorial: design-in-action

Bodil Jönsson, Peter Anderberg, Eva Flodin, Camilla Nordgren, Arne Svensk & Lone Malmborg Ethics in the Making  

Carleton B. Christensen The Material Basis of Everyday Rationality: transformation by design or education?

Rabah Bousbaci & Alain Findeli  More acting and less making: a place for ethics in architecture’s epistemology

Tony Fry  Design, Development & Questions of Direction

Issue 1, 2006

Anne-Marie Willis Editorial: The Review Issue

Cameron Tonkinwise Always Historicise Design (review of Bruce Sterling Shaping Things)

Tony Fry  ‘Object-thing Philosophy’ and Design (review of B. Latour & P. Weibel Making Things Public;
G. Harman Tool-being and Guerrilla Metaphysics; Peter-Paul Verbeek What Things Do)

Gavin Sade Why Interaction Design? review of  Jonas Löwgren & Erik Stolterman Thoughtful Interaction Design)

Anne-Marie Willis From Cultural Difference to Horizons of the Same (review of Marshall Sahlins Culture in Practice and Bruce Mau Massive Change)

Maria Cecilia Loschiavos dos Santos Homelessness: A Global Perspective

Issue 2, 2006

Tony Fry Editorial: Design, Philosophy & Ethics

Anne-Marie Willis Ontological Designing

William McNeill Design and the Enigma of the World

Wolfgang Jonas A Special Moral Code for Design?

Carleton B. Christensen Popping the Bubble: the Ethical Responsibility for Design  (review of John Thackara’s In the Bubble)

Anne-Marie Willis Books received and noted

Issue 3, 2006

Anne-Marie Willis Editorial: Design, Philosophy & Ethics - part 2

Tony Fry Design, ethics & identity

Keith Owens  Design, technology & ethics: visiting with Kockelkoren & Taylor

Daniel Wahl  A cyborg’s choice: singularity or sustainment?

Issue 4, 2006

Anne-Marie Willis & Tony Fry  Editorial: New Directions

Eli Blevis  Advancing Sustainable Interaction Design: two perspectives on material effects

Susan Stewart & Jacqueline Lorber-Kasunic Akrasia, Ethics & Design Education

Philippe Gauthier  Not good enough? a response to Wolfgang Jonas,  ‘A special moral code for design?’

Tony Fry  Reviews: Cosmology and Architecture in Premodern Islam; Visualising the Invisible; Built upon Love

Anne-Marie Willis  Reviews: Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty; Hertzian Tales: electronic products, aesthetic experience and critical design

Issue 1, 2007

Anne-Marie Willis Editorial: Transition

Tony Fry  Redirective Practice: an elaboration

Cameron Tonkinwise Philosophy Gets Real about Design – review of Albert Borgmann’s ‘Real American Ethics’

Design Philosophy Politics – preview

Eli Blevis Living Room Totem of the Unsustainable

Review shorts: Nigel Cross’s ‘Designerly Ways of Knowing’; George Stiny’s ‘Shape’ and more

Issue 2, 2007

Anne-Marie Willis  Editorial: Building Dwelling Futures

Philippe d’Anjou & Glenn Weiss  The forgotten project in New Urbanism

Kim Steele  Topography of vacancy

Tony Fry with Jim Gall  Redirective Practice in action: Boonah Two

Anne-Marie Willis  From peri-urban to unknown territory

Issue 3-4, 2007

Anne-Marie Willis, Editorial:The Everyday as Locus of Sustainment

Carleton B. Christensen, What is so Sustainable about Services?

Philippe d’Anjou, The Existential Self as Locus of Sustainability in Design

Michael Chapman & Steffen Lehmann, Congestion & Movement: Cities, Crowds & Chandigarh

Sukanta Biswas, Sustainable Mobility Services in Kolkata

Tony Fry, The Futuring of the Ancient: review of François Jullien, Vital Nourishment: Departing from Happiness

Review shorts: Rich Gold’s Plenitude, Kenya Hara’s Designing Design and more

 

Issue 1, 2008 (current issue)

Anne-Marie Willis, Editorial: Technological Angst

Britt Östlund, Annika Olsson & Bodil Jönsson, The Liquid Drop: exposing & utilising difference in the design process

Eric Stolterman & Anna Croon Fors, Human Computer Interaction (HCI): towards a critical research position

Anne-Marie Willis, Introduction to Philosophical Dialogue

William McNeill & Carleton B Christensen, Philosophical Dialogue: Everyday truths?

(re-run) Carleton B. Christensen, What is so Sustainable about Services?

Tony Fry, The Gap in the Ability to Sustain