Developing one of the key themes emerging from the ADR18 conference, Drawing On: Architecture Design Research shifts focus to research projects that engage directly with design methods. It adds, removes and questions propositions frequently attached to common categorizations used to define design research work, introducing the underlying preposition “by,” as a proposition for probing and challenging the separations implied by these categorizations. The works presented in this issue question these categorizations, either through their methodologies or their outputs, inevitably converging around questions of representation.