1. The project of design research / David Leatherbarrow -- 2. One step towards an ecology of design : fields of relations and bodies of knowledge / Christopher Hight -- 3. On the emergence of research by design and practice-based research approaches in architectural and urban design / Halina Dunin-Woyseth and Fredrik Nilsson -- 4. Towards meeting the challenges of facilitating transdisciplinarity in design education, research and practice / Mark Burry -- 5. Beyond Kenkyushitsu and atelier -- towards a new professional education and practice / Hidetoshi Ohno and Bruno Peeters -- 6. Reality studio : a search for design tools to meet complexity / Inger-Lise Syversen -- 7. Research by design in the context of the OCEAN Design Research Association / Michael U. Hensel, Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel and Jeffrey P. Turko -- 8. Systems-oriented design for the built environment / Birger Sevaldson -- 9. Performance-oriented design as a framework for renovating architectural practice and innovating research by design / Michael U. Hensel -- 10. The Research Centre for Architecture and Tectonics -- implementing research towards performance-oriented architecture / Michael U. Hensel -- 11. How can biology inform architects? / Julian Vincent -- 12. Relational practice / Siv Stangeland and Reinhard Kropf -- 13. Studio integrate : interview with a young practice focusing on research by design / Michael U. Hensel in conversation with Mehran Gharleghi and Amin Sadeghy -- 14. Multiplying the ground / Eva Castro and Alfredo Ramirez -- 15. Building communication by design : mobile fiction and the city / Andrew Morrison and Henry Mainsah -- 16. Making material of the networked city / Einar Sneve Martinussen.