This draft offers a preliminary suggestion for Phenomenological Research through Design (PRtD), a methodological framework that integrates phenomenological principles into Research through Design (RtD) practice. Based on Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, the framework outlines five interrelated methodological aspects: #1 Prototyping through the Lived Body, #2 Exploring the Reciprocity of Touch and Touchback, #3 Cultivating Social Interrelation, #4 Embracing Drifting as a Method, and #5 Attuning to Intercorporeality– as tools for engaging with and reflecting on design processes that are bodily, social and material. PRtD offers a grounded, yet flexible approach to designing with and through the body. The framework is proposed as a practical contribution to Soma Design, embodied interaction design, and reflective methodologies in HCI, particularly for those seeking to centre lived experience in interaction design.
Maja Fagerberg Ranten (Mon,) studied this question.