Making design theory Tendencies toward academization of traditionally practice based fields have forced design to articulate itself as an academic discipline in theoretical terms. In this book Johan Redstrom offers a new approach to theory development in design research one that is driven by practice experimentation and making. Redstrom does not theorize from the outside but explores the idea that just as design research engages in the making of many different kinds of things theory might well be one of those things it is making. Redstrom proposes that we consider theory not as stable and constant but as something unfolding something acted as much as articulated inherently fluid and transitional. Redstrom describes three ways in which theory in particular formulating basic definitions is made through design: the use of combinations of fluid terms to articulate issues; the definition of more complex concepts through practice; and combining sets of definitions made through design into programs. These are the building blocks for creating conceptual structures to support design.0Design seems to thrive on the complexities arising from dichotomies: form and function freedom and method art and science. With his idea of transitional theory Redstrom departs from the traditional academic imperative to pick a side theory or practice art or science. Doing so he opens up something like a design space for theory development within design research