OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Design and Culture is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Matri-Archive, Creativity, and Beadwork: Toward an Inclusive Design Process	22
Design, Situated Knowledge, and Collective Action	16
Numbering and Boat IDs: The Dehumanizing Use of ID Numbers in Australia’s Border Regime	9
Illustration and Heritage	8
Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook	8
Seeing with Fresh Eyes: Meaning, Space, Data, Truth	7
Editorial	7
Human-Centered AI	5
In-Between Spaces: Reflections on the Emerging Scholars Workshop	5
The Disobedience of Design: Gui Bonsiepe	5
Planty Design Activism: Alliances with Seeds	4
Big Data, Big Design: Why Designers Should Care about Artificial Intelligence Big Data, Big Design: Why Designers Should Care about Artificial Intelligence , by Helen A	4
“It’s like the Wild West”: User Experience (UX) Designers on Ethics and Privacy in Aotearoa New Zealand	3
African Interlace as Dynamic Grids: New Heritage Algorithms for Diaspora Design Ecologies	3
Transformative Urban Practice: Supporting the Commons in Spaces of Conflict	3
Exploring Autonomy as a Design Principle: Theoretical Review of Autonomy and Case Studies of Service Design for Seniors	3
Pushing Back the Walls: The Politics of Maneuver in Women’s Drug Rehabilitation	3
Designing Peace: Building a Better Future Now	2
W.E.B. Du Bois and Designs for Abolition Democracy	2
Bajubá Collection	2
Klingspor Type Archive	2
Crafting History: Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy	2
Caps Lock: How Capitalism Took Hold of Graphic Design and How to Escape from It Caps Lock: How Capitalism Took Hold of Graphic Design and How to Escape from It, by Ruben PaterValiz:	2
Designing Modern Japan	2
Gendered Interactions Mediated by Design: Sexual Harassment on Public Transport	2

Emoji as a Tool of Cultural Preservation for the Dulong People of China	1
Living with Scents	1
Doing Design Culture Studies; Practicing Design Culture	1
(In)Visible Participants	1
Emmett McBain Design Papers	1
Type Out Loud: Re-Presenting Typographic Divergence in the USA	1
Held in Tension: Craft, Design, and Technology	1
A Lived-in Shape Grammar: Parsing the Dwelling Activities in a Modernist Residential Building in Algiers	1
The Emotional Labor of Making Selves, Making Futures: Ethics of Care in Participatory Design Practice for Transformational Change	1
Beirut: Alternative Chronotopes for an Aesthetic Experience of Presence	1
The Architecture of Learning: Space, Time, and Pedagogy in the Open Space School	1
Colonial Performances in More-than-Human Design	0
Call to Move Beyond Dieter Rams’ Ten Principles of Good Design	0
Time(s) to Listen: Anthropology/Design Encounters in the Design of a Colombian Exhibition on Reconciliation	0
Interfaces and Us: User Experience Design and the Making of the Computable Subject	0
Design and Heritage: The Construction of Identity and Belonging	0
Before Design, More-than-Design: Elucidating “Ontological Design”	0
Design Social Change: Take Action, Work Toward Equity, and Challenge the Status Quo	0
Editorial Note	0
Digital Visual Identifiers for Sound from Palestine: Exploring Less-Charted Areas in Design Discourse	0
Post Terrona and Her Soil	0
Contemporary Chinese Graphic Design Practice	0
Designing New Futures for Design Education	0
Designing and Researching from Affection: An Ethnography on the Creative Practices of Cartoneros *	0
Designing on Western Arrarnta Country: The Ntaria Digital Drawings	0
Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China’s Consumer Revolution	0
Printing Utopia: The Domain of the 3D Printer in the Making of Commons-Based Futures	0
UNLICENSED: Bootlegging as Creative Practice	0
Designing “Down to Earth.” Lessons Learned from Transformative Social Innovation	0
One Million Experiments	0
The Infrastructure of a Local Weaving Practice: Community Relationships for a Participatory Capacity	0
When West Meets East: Uncovering the Chinese Perspective on Design and Designing	0
Reflective Pedagogical Strategies for Addressing Age-Related Biases in Design Education: Assumption Dumps and Time Capsule Letters	0
Through Witnessing: Threading the Critiquing, Making, Teaching of Design and Design Otherwise: Transforming Design Education in the Arab Region	0
Reorienting Design Towards a Decolonial Ethos: Exploring Directions for Decolonial Design	0
Special Forum: Designing a World of Many Centers	0
Queer Print in Europe	0
Design Practice Research: Conditions and Outcomes	0
Prototyping and Prefiguring through Law Reform: An Interview with Davina Cooper on the FLaG Sex and Gender Decertification Proposal	0
Vital Media: Making, Design, and Expression for Human and Other Materials	0
Harmonizing Bilingual Layouts: A Proposal of Latin–Arabic Typographic Classifications	0
Experimental Design Atmospheres	0
(A)way Station	0
Design Pedagogy for Enhancing Peer Learning and Creative Thinking	0
Un/Designing the Borderline: Walls, Bodies, and Creative Resistance	0
Latour for Architects	0
From Needs to Desire: Pluriversal Design as a Desire-Based Design	0
Introduction to Design Psychology	0
Un/Making the Plastic Straw: Designerly Inquiries into Disposability	0
Double Time Pictures of the Arizona State Prison at Florence	0

Self-Organized Social and Physical Livelihood Assets in State-Driven Urban Developments: A Case of Shekilango Commercial Street, Sinza – Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	0
Research for Designers: A Guide to Methods and Practice	0
Affective Openings: Embodied Inscriptions in Interaction Design	0
The Significance of Cultivating a Dynamic of Trust in Collective Design Practice with Indigenous Communities: Learnings from the Field	0
Ecological by Design: A History from Scandinavia	0
“The Apple Way”: Foucault, Design, Consumerism, and the Shaping of Apple Subjects	0
Design & Solidarity: Conversations on Collective Futures	0
“when life is happening, design has meaning”: Reflections from the Outgoing Editors	0
Ecologies Otherwise: Mapping Ontological, Speculative, and Transition Design Discourses	0
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall , by Alexandra LangeNew York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022,	0
Design History and Culture: Methods and Approaches	0
Feeling Our Way Forward: Affect, Imaginative Agency, and Design in Future-Making	0
Homes at Work: Urban Informality and Recognition in Latin America and Africa	0
Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers	0
Towards a “Glocal” Teaching of the History of Graphic Design	0
Designing With or Against Institutions? Dilemmas of Participatory Design in Contested Cities	0
(We) Stay at [Your] Home: A Visual Essay on Social Distancing	0
Peace by Design	0
Basel Poster Collection	0
The Welcome Neighbors Sign—A Pro-Immigration Design Artifact: How One Yard Sign Became a National Movement of Political Dissent	0
Screen Interiors: From Country Houses to Cosmic Heterotopias	0
Hush Little Baby: The Invention of Infant Sleep in Modern France	0
Generative Design Research for a Culturally Sensitive Subject: Exploring Menstrual Practices and Product Experiences to Inspire Design	0
Design and the Social Imagination	0
Immutable: Designing History	0
Designing the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Assessment in the New York City Jails: A Visual Abolitionist Resistance to Data Infrastructures of Harm	0
Designing against Infrastructures of Harm: Introduction	0
Fen-Orchids, a Garden, and a Tandem in the (Post-)Jungle: Unsettling Care and Control in the European Borderscape	0
Here We Do Not Offer Universal Solutions: Reflexive, Relational, and Visual Practices in Design Research	0
Design for the Speculative Future as Cultural Intermediary: Case Study on Chinese Weddings	0
Bridging Boundaries: Unveiling Bourdieu’s “Thinking Tools” in Design Interventions with Youth	0
Correction	0
Design Before Design: Learning to be Affected by Neurodiverse Spatial Practices	0
“Pirate Care Syllabus,” https://syllabus.pirate.care/	0
Design Social Change: Take Action, Work Toward Equity, and Challenge the Status Quo	0
Design Aesthetics: Theoretical Basics and Studies in Implication	0
The Apotheosis of Steve Jobs: Belief and Desire in the Discourse of Design	0
Fashion, Disability, and Co-Design: A Human-Centered Design Approach	0
On seeing crossings: Dover/Calais	0
Looking into Mid-Century Modern Furniture Design in Turkey through Oral History	0
Coloniality and Architectural Pedagogies in the Global South: Τhe Case Studies of KNUST in Ghana and Ciudad Abierta/PUCV in Chile	0
The Typographic Medium	0
Designing a Level Playing Field: The Design Politics of the Baby Box in Scotland	0
Co-Cities: Innovative Transitions toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities	0
The New Designer: Rejecting Myths, Embracing Change	0
Feminist Designer: On the Personal and the Political in Design	0
Self Help Graphics at Fifty: A Cornerstone of Latinx Art and Collaborative Artmaking	0
Designing The Authority: Dams, High Modernity, and Colonial Temporal Containment	0
Geographies, Systems, Spaces, and Pictures: Scholars and Practitioners on Designing Against Infrastructures of Harm	0