Creative designerly mapping : using scenario thinking and co-design to inform a hybrid approach to design research

By combining approaches from future studies with the co-designing practice of context mapping, underpinned by approaches in emerging critical cartography, a hybrid design research approach termed creative designerly mapping is proposed. The significance of creative designerly mapping is that it provides a way to begin to characterise any kind of data – as forms of social data domain or value set, thus providing a starting point for the process of dynamic mapping that is intended to be carried out using co-designing or collaborative approaches. After briefly describing key aspects of the theoretical framework for this hybrid research approach, there case studies are introduced and evaluated as instances of creative designerly mapping.