Research Through Design: Twenty-First Century Makers and Materialities

Abstract

The Research Through Design (RTD) conference is a new, experimental dissemination platform to support design practitionerresearchers. Founded in 2013, RTD was established as a biennial conference series with RTD 2015, held in Cambridge, UK (March 25-27, 2015). 1 This special issue brings together a set of perspectives from those who attended the RTD 2015 conference, offering new experiential insight about what it means to practice, disseminate, and understand design-led inquiry within academic communities and beyond.