on Publishing in Design Research

Why do we publish design research? What role does academic publishing play in the design field? These are just some of the questions that will guide our open discussion in celebration of the release of the second volume of rrrreflect. Journal of Integrated Design Research.

Authors, editors, and design practitioners are invited to share their insights, experiences, and ideas on the significance, challenges, and nuances of publishing design research.

The release party with panel discussion will take place on
📅 Date: Wednesday, 17 December 2025
⏰ Time: 5:30 p.m.
📍 Location: Room 11, KISD – Köln International School of Design

Guests include:
Matthias Grund (rrrreflect-Autor)
Dustin Jessen (Designer/Forscher)
Simon Meienberg (rrrreflect / KISDedition Advisory Bord Member)
Gabriel S Moses (Editor Working Titles)
Lena Renz (rrrreflect-Autorin)
Pia-Marie Stute (rrrreflect-Autorin)
Moritz Tontsch (rrrreflect-Autor)
Conrad Weise (rrrreflect-Autor)
Dzennifer Zachlod (rrrreflect-Autorin)

About rrrreflect: Journal of Integrated Design Research

rrrreflect. Journal of Integrated Design Research is a digital open-access journal that publishes design research from KISD and beyond under the Creative Commons license CC-BY 4.0. It is published online and archived as a publication series by Cologne Open Science. With this design research journal, we open up an experimental field for textual and non-textual forms of knowledge, including image, video and sound. In doing so, we enter into a dialogue with the current discourse on the scientificity of design research and at the same time refer to the sensual dimensions of perception as epistemically constituting.