Publications

For more than a decade DesignInquiry has spearheaded intensive team-based gatherings and shared the diverse outcomes through various publishing practices, influenced design research and teaching methods, and has inspired professional designers to rethink what design can be and can do. Draw Down Books features a selection of DesignInquiry publications.

Every so often we publish a newsletter with provocations and invitations, inquiry outcomes and other musings. Dig into our archive of past newsletters here.

"DesignInquiry Is" was made for the exhibition, Futurespective, in 2019. The book has three distinct but interconnected parts that attempt to capture the spirit and ethos of our universe of thinkers and makers. “DesignInquiry Is” includes theses about our theory and our practice. “Spontaneous Survey” illustrates DesignInquiry in action, in our gatherings and projects. Running through both is the work of DesignInquirers excerpted from diverse project proposals stretching back to our earliest gatherings. See a PDF here.