Abstract This conclusion to the special issue on The Design Turn: Design Studies Beyond Design offers some cautious directions what a project of design studies beyond the remit of the traditional design fields might become in practice. Understanding that such a project will harbor its own frictions and possibilities for contestation, we offer a speculative outlook. Design studies beyond design might then be thought of in terms of institutionalization, a new field of study, or a looser discursive clustering. Each of these possibilities would bring its own potential problems and benefits. Some of the collaborations necessary for realizing such a project certainly already exist, yet we have to remain vigilant to overcome the lingering issue of design's definitional slippage. While our call for design studies beyond design is decidedly ecumenical, we must first developing a new collective framework. We conclude by highlighting that despite the lure of the language around collaboration, refusal to collaborate is, or should be, an essential part of design.
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