Designing: New practices, new forms, new theories, new critiques

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Designing: New practices, new forms, new theories, new critiques Historical consciousness.History is important, but it neither defines us nor predicts the future.Early in 1968, 2 years after the formation of the Design Research Society, the Design Methods Group Newsletter, a co-publication that DRS members received as part of their subscription, reported some new developments.These comprised an expanded coverage of research disciplines, an increased editorial staff, professional printing, and a new publisher: a small, recently established outfit called Sage Publications Inc., based in Beverly Hills, California and committed to publishing 'thoughtful works of scholarship by and for educators, authors, and other scholars throughout the world' (Miller McCune, 2021).The Design Methods Group newsletter was published by Sage until 1972 when, 'necessitated by [the global] economic disaster', and even though the 'flow of information in the field [was] beginning to outstrip the capabilities of the newsletter format', Sage felt they were not in a strong enough financial position to support the planned expansion of the newsletter into a new journal and accompanying bulletin.1 With Sage departed from the scene, publication continued, funded by a push on member and library subscriptions.The US-based Design Methods Group and the UK-based Design Research Society continued to co-publish the journal Design Research and Methods from 1972 until 1974 which then continued as Design Methods and Theories until 1979 when, after an amicable parting of ways, the Design Research Society launched a journal of its own, Design Studies, through a UK publisher called the IPC Science and Technology Press, based in Guildford, UK.The IPC press became Butterworth Press in 1982, who then merged with Heinemann, another British publisher, in 1990, with Design Studies handed on as part of the academic journal business.In 1996 Design Studies passed again from Butterworth-Heinemann, this time to Elsevier, a subsidiary of the Reed-Elsevier group, now known as RELX, a huge and very profitable analytics-led publishing organisation with a mission to 'benefit society by developing products that help researchers advance scientific knowledge'. 2 Throughout the years of publishing with Elsevier, Design Studies was the premier publication venue for researchers exploring the process of design.In 2023, in what might be euphemistically termed 'corporate overreach', Design Studies was told to increase its publication volume tenfold or face closure.In the face of resistance to this qualitydestroying directive, a new editor-in-chief was unexpectedly and abruptly installed by the publisher to implement the new policy (Upton, 2023a).The result was an exodus of editorial staff and editorial board members and a thriving research community left

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