Design research: suturing bodies, puppies, epistemologies and moons

The question around which this research into art and design is structured is highly topical. More than a few people and colleges have previously tackled this issue. In the following article, we aim to take a perspective that is generally overlooked in many of these debates and which, in our opinion, is important to take into account: how can we think about this reality without having to separate design from the political, social, ethical and aesthetic. In other words, how can we think about design research as a situated practice, with its specific research materialities and languages. Taking the work of authors such as Bruno Latour, Isabelle Stengers and Viveiros de Castro as a starting point, we are going to propose a truncated genealogy of design research that we believe has the potential to overcome some of the epistemological schisms that we have been left by modernity, which established false dichotomies between doing and thinking, knowing and feeling, investigating and playing, reasoning and sensing.