The past 20 years have seen growth in exposure and academic outlets for design scholarship through new journals, special topics sessions and conferences, and PhD programs. Yet, there is a lack of strong published examples of design scholarship in textiles and apparel as designer scholars and administrators still struggle to understand how to conduct, document, and evaluate design scholarship. This issue, long overdue, looks at the current state of design research in our textile and apparel discipline and provides examples that begin to fill the gap in our shared understanding of a way forward.

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编者按：纺织品和服装高级设计奖学金

在过去的 20 年里，通过新期刊、专题会议和会议以及博士项目，设计奖学金的曝光率和学术渠道有所增长。然而，由于设计师学者和管理人员仍在努力理解如何进行、记录和评估设计奖学金，因此缺乏已发表的纺织品和服装设计奖学金的有力例子。本期早该发布，着眼于我们纺织和服装学科的设计研究的现状，并提供了开始填补我们对前进道路的共同理解差距的例子。