Do it Yourself Materials DiY: emerging explorations of expressive-sensory-emotional qualities

Abstract

What are the main approaches from which DIY materials research is being developed in the field of industrial design? With this article we report the results of the review that locates epistemological and methodological places from which studies on DIY materials speak in the current landscape of design research, triangulating methods of qualitative analysis and social network analysis -ARS-, both from social studies and from emerging approaches to design research, finding that their positioning is dispersed between post-positivism, participatory approach, Critical Design, User-Centered Design, Emotional Design and generative-participatory approach to design studies. This reflects the great variety of topics developed in the field, while revealing little cohesion in the co-production of new knowledge that characterizes the network of authors, a fact that constitutes an opportunity to connect interests through inter-transdisciplinary inquiry from the diversity of geographical locations, projecting research in DiY materials towards Participatory Design practices, combining local knowledge and feelings of the communities with technical and disciplinary knowledge of design, tinkering with new expressive-sensory-emotional edges of design oriented to materials.