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Dear design re/seachers, I am studying how students (mostly from social sciences) are designing their learning material. I want to describe the actions performed with the material as designerly actions: from highlighting and annotating to editing to arranging to filing. I have made a literature research about theoretical accounts of everyday design. Here's what I've found: # Brandes, Stich & Wender: Design by Use. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2009. __ they essentially document "mis-used" everyday objects, concentrating on those objects, not on process. # Louridas: Design as Bricolage. In: Design Studies 20 (1999) Nr. 6, pp. 517-535 __ he combines Alexanders notion of the un/selfconscious designer and Levi-Strauss' bricoleur. # Papantoniou, Nathanael & Marmaras: Moving Target. Designing for Evolving Practice. In: Stephanidis, C. (ed.): Universal access in HCI -- Inclusive Design in the Information Society. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003, pp. 474-478. __ they refer to the concept of /catachresis/ which "refers to the use of a word in way different from the normal meaning" (ibid.) and /utilization scheme/ which seems to go back to Jean Piaget. # Wakkary & Maestri: Aspects of Everyday Design. In: Int. Journal of HCI 24 (2008) Nr. 5, pp. 478-491 __ they propose the notion "design-in-use", from their ethnographic studies they identify patterns and underlying social processes. Do you know any more? Can you give me a hint where to search? Thanks for your help! Cheers, Jan-Henning Raff PhD candidate Technische Universität Dresden Germany