Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to design innovation for the built environment - research by design and the renovation of practice / Michael U. Hensel -- The project of design research / David Leatherbarrow -- One step towards an ecology of design: fields of relations and bodies of knowledge / Christopher Hight -- On the emergence of research by design and practice-based research approaches in architectural and urban design / Halina Dunin-Woyseth and Fredrik Nilsson -- Towards meeting the challenges of facilitating transdisciplinarity in design education, research and practice / Mark Burry -- Beyond Kenkyushitsu and atelier - towards a new professional education and practice / Hidetoshi Ohno and Bruno Peeters -- Reality Studio - a search for design tools to meet complexity / Inger-Lise Syversen -- Research by design in the context of the OCEAN Design Research Association / Michael U. Hensel, Defne Sunguro♯Ґlu Hensel and Jeffrey P. Turko -- Systems-oriented design for the built environment / Birger Sevaldson -- Performance-oriented design as a framework for renovating architectural practice and innovating research by design / Michael U. Hensel -- The Research Centre for Architecture and Tectonics - implementing research towards performance-oriented architecture / Michael U. Hensel -- How can biology inform architects? / Julian Vincent -- Relational practice / Siv Stangeland and Reinhard Kropf -- Studio Integrate - interview with a young practice focusing on research by design / Michael U. Hensel in conversation with Mehran Gharleghi and Amin Sadeghy -- Multiplying the ground / Eva Castro and Alfredo Ramirez -- Building communication by design: mobile fiction and the city / Andrew Morrison and Henry Mainsah -- Making material of the networked city / Einar Sneve Martinussen.