Design Philosophy Papers commenced publication in March 2003. All back issues, themes and papers are listed below.  
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1/2003 on unsustainability   2/2003 tainted 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  2/2008  self, agency, world 

1/2009  inefficient sustainability 2/2009 design history futures 1  3/2009 design history futures 2 

1/2010 sacred design  1/2011 renew, repair, research  2/2011design, politics, sustainment  3/2011 beyond progressive design 1  1/2012 beyond progressive design 2

 

Issue 1, 2003

Anne-Marie Willis Editorial: 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 Editorial: 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: 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

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


Issue 1, 2008

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


Issue 2, 2008 

Anne-Marie Willis, Editorial: self, agency, world

Carleton B. Christensen, Redirecting Affective Dispositions: how philosophy can contribute to eco-political thinking

Henrik Enquist, A Socio-material Ecology of the Distributed Self

Tiiu Poldma, Dwelling Futures and  Lived Experiences: transforming interior spaces

Anne-Marie Willis, Design Unlimited – reviews of The Design Culture Reader (ed. Ben Highmore) and Design Dictionary: Perspectives on Design Terminology (eds Michael Erloff and Tim Marshall)


Issue 1, 2009

Anne-Marie Willis & Cameron Tonkinwise, Editorial: inefficient sustainability

Allan Stoekl, Gift, Design and Gleaning

Jamer Hunt, Unnatural Capital: Bataille beyond Design

Tony Fry, Sustainability: Inefficiency or Insufficiency?

Cameron Tonkinwise, Sustainability is not a Humanism review essay on Allan Stoekl’s Bataille’s Peak

 

Issue 2,2009

Anne-Marie Willis, Editorial: design history futures - part 1

Peter A. Hall, True Cost Button-pushing: re-writing industrial design in America

Tara Andrews, Design & Consume to Utopia: where industrial design went wrong

Caroline Barnes & Simon Jackson, Robin Boyd, Expo ’70 & defuturing: no accounting for the environment 

Beverly Grindstaff, Origins of Unsustainable Luxury: becoming slaves to objects 

Anne Massey & Paul Micklethwaite, Unsustainability: towards a new design hisotry, with reference to British Utility  

 

Issue 3, 2009

Karin Jaschke,  Editorial: design history futures - part 2

Daniel Barber, Environmentalisation: 20thc architecture reconceived

Jill SInclair, 'That faint semblance of Eden': problems with landscape design history

Mark Jackson, Sustainability, design, history

Dena Fam, Cynthia Mitchell, Abby Lopes, Juliet Willets, Challenge of systems change: Sydney's Sewers

John Calvelli, Unsustainable histories, models of practice


Issue 1, 2010

Anne-Marie Willis, Editorial: sacred design

Karsten Harries, On the Need for Sacred Architecture 

Nilay Ozlu, Hagia Sophia and the Demise of the Sacred

Tony Fry, Re-turning: Sacred Design III

Soumitri Varadarajan, How the Sacred could inform Sustainable Design Practice

Samer Akkach, The Presence of Absence: sacred design now 


Issue 1, 2011

Anne-Marie Willis, Editorial: renew, repair, research

Jay Hasbrouck, From Refurbish to renew: the trope of healing and sustainable technology design

Carlo Franzato, Design as Speculation

Michael Biggs & Daniela Büchler, Some Consequences of the Academicization of Design Practice

Susan Yelavich, Making Repairs, Making (environmental) Amends    


Issue 2, 2011

Anne-Marie Willis, Editorial: design, politics and sustainment

Cameron Tonkinwise, I Sustainability (because necessity no longer has agency)

Oliver Feltham, After Nature: modelling ecological practices

Tony Fry, Time and the Political: post-urban futures, chronophobia and unsettlement

Clive Dilnot, Sustainability as a Project of History

Keith Owens, Slicing Deeply: a review essay of Tony Fry's Design as Politics

Carl Mitcham and Wang Nan, Beijing Bauhaus: art, engineering and socio-cultural change



Issue 3, 2011

Sean Donahue, Rama Gheerawo, Anne-Marie WIllis, Editorial: beyond progressive design 1

Shana Agid, 'How do we design something to transition people from a system that doesn't wabt to let them go?' Social design and its political contexts

Matt Kiem, Designing the social, and the politics of social innovation

Kenton Card, Democratic social architecture or experimentation on the poor? Ethnographic snapshots

Karen Freire, Gustavo Borba, Luisa Diebold, Particpatory design as an approach to social innovation

Vera Damazio and Gabriel Leitao, Design against domestic violence



Issue 1, 2012 (current issue)

Anne-Marie Willis (with Sean Donahue, Rama Gheerawo), Editorial: beyond progressive design 2

Oliver Vodeb, Beyond the image and towards communication

Jan-Henning Raff & Gavin Melles, Design without designers

Eva Koppen & Christoph Meinel, Knowing people: the empathetic designer

Pirkko Raudaskoski, Beyond words: design for people with severe brain injury

Yoko Akama, A way of being in design: Zen & the art of being a human-centred practitioner

Petra Perolini with Tony Fry, Home eco-nomy: dwelling, destruction & design