Design Research Today encompasses a selection of research projects that were presented at the Unfrozen Conference. Unfrozen literally refers to the desire to create a warm atmosphere and to break the ice between specialist and design research disciplines.

Ruth Baumeister starts with a retrospective of design history: beginning with the central conflict between Max Bill and Asger Jorn, two prototypical energies of design are put into perspective that are also found in the other chapters.

Other authors / (selected) topics - Ludwig Zeller: Critical and Speculative Design - Grace Lees-Maffeis: Kontextualisierung des Grafikdesigns - Anna Calvera: Verortung lokaler Designpraktiken in Spanien - Marie Heidingsfelder, Martin Luge: Future Technologies - Josh Mc Veigh Schultz: Design spekulativer Rituale - Ulrike Felsing: Design Methods for Typography and Information Design in the Field of Inter-cultural Communication

Specific design research projects: - Lisa Mercer: Designprojekt gegen Menschenhandel - Venanzio Arquilla Polimi, Annalisa Barbieri: Service design vs. Social innovation - Bianca Herlo: Community Now - Tomás García Ferrari: Rolle des Designs in unserer von Software geprägten Welt. - Françoise Adler: Design-driven technology development - Tina Moor: Textile insulating solutions für Gebäude bei Daniel Wehrli