Design science : why, what and how – revisited

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Papalambros, Panos and Gero, John S. and Maier, Anja and Cagan, Jonathan and Ahmed-Kristensen, Saeema and Albers, Albert and April, Kurt and Blessing, Lucienne and Boujut, Jean-Francois and Cantamessa, Marco and Cascini, Gaetano and Chakrabarti, Amaresh and Chen, Lin-Lin and Clarkson, P. John and Jiao, Roger J. and Eckert, Claudia M. and Feinberg, Fred and Gericke, Kilian and Hanna, Sean and Holtta-Otto, Katja and Jankovic, Marija and Jin, Yan and Kleinsmann, Maaike and Knight, Terry and Le Masson, Pascal and Lewis, Kemper and Linsey, Julie and Luo, Jianxi and McMahon, Chris and Nagai, Yukari and Pigosso, Daniela and Reich, Yoram and Reid, Tahira and Seepersad, Carolyn and Seifert, Colleen and Shealy, Tripp and Summers, Joshua and Vermaas, Pieter and Wartzack, Sandro and Yang, Maria and Yannou, Bernard (2025) Design science : why, what and how – revisited. Design Science, 11. e48. ISSN 2053-4701 (https://doi.org/10.1017/dsj.2025.10026)

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Abstract

Design Science is the discipline that studies the creation of artifacts – products, services, and systems and their embedding in our physical, virtual, psychological, economic, and social environments. This editorial is a collective effort of the Design Science Journal’s editorial board members, past and present. The journal’s inaugural 2015 editorial, “Design Science: Why, What and How,” reflected the thoughts and vision of that first editorial board for the new journal and the discipline it represented. The present contribution offers the reflections of editors who served the journal in the past 10 years. The individual contributions were not primed and are presented here unedited for conformity or consistency. Differently from the 2015 editorial, there is no effort to synthesize the individual contributions, leaving the task to our readers, who can draw their own conclusions about the Design Science Journal and community accomplishments to date, and the challenges ahead.

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Papalambros, Panos, Gero, John S., Maier, Anja ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3890-6452, Cagan, Jonathan, Ahmed-Kristensen, Saeema, Albers, Albert, April, Kurt, Blessing, Lucienne, Boujut, Jean-Francois, Cantamessa, Marco, Cascini, Gaetano, Chakrabarti, Amaresh, Chen, Lin-Lin, Clarkson, P. John, Jiao, Roger J., Eckert, Claudia M., Feinberg, Fred, Gericke, Kilian, Hanna, Sean, Holtta-Otto, Katja, Jankovic, Marija, Jin, Yan, Kleinsmann, Maaike, Knight, Terry, Le Masson, Pascal, Lewis, Kemper, Linsey, Julie, Luo, Jianxi, McMahon, Chris, Nagai, Yukari, Pigosso, Daniela, Reich, Yoram, Reid, Tahira, Seepersad, Carolyn, Seifert, Colleen, Shealy, Tripp, Summers, Joshua, Vermaas, Pieter, Wartzack, Sandro, Yang, Maria and Yannou, Bernard;
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