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Design Research Today encompasses a selection of research projects that were presented at the "Unfrozen" Conference. Unfrozen literally refers to the desire to create a warm atmosphere and to break the ice between specialist and design research disciplines.

Ruth Baumeister starts with a retrospective of design history: beginning with the central conflict between Max Bill and Asger Jorn, two prototypical energies of design are put into perspective that are also found in the other chapters.

Other authors / (selected) topics
- Ludwig Zeller: Critical and Speculative Design
- Grace Lees-Maffeis: Kontextualisierung des Grafikdesigns
- Anna Calvera: Verortung lokaler Designpraktiken in Spanien
- Marie Heidingsfelder, Martin Luge: Future Technologies
- Josh Mc Veigh Schultz: Design spekulativer Rituale
- Ulrike Felsing: Design Methods for Typography and Information Design in the Field of Inter-cultural Communication

Specific design research projects:
- Lisa Mercer: Designprojekt gegen Menschenhandel
- Venanzio Arquilla Polimi, Annalisa Barbieri: Service design vs. Social innovation
- Bianca Herlo: "Community Now"
- Tomás García Ferrari: Rolle des Designs in unserer von Software geprägten Welt.
- Fran‡oise Adler: Design-driven technology development
- Tina Moor: "Textile insulating solutions" für Gebäude bei Daniel Wehrli

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