The paper "A Temporal Vocabulary of Design Events for Research Through Design" by Doenja Oogjes and Audrey Desjardins explores the importance of temporal awareness in research-through-design (RtD) projects. The authors argue that the lack of temporal attunement in RtD reporting can obscure important contextual knowledge, hidden labor, material agencies, and potential knowledge contributions. They introduce the concept of "design events" as a way to articulate the granularities and nuances of RtD processes, drawing on philosophical roots and their own previous work. The paper proposes seven terms to expand the temporal vocabulary of RtD: moments, encounters, transitions, pauses, rhythms, other-time, and temporal dissonances. These terms are designed to help researchers build narratives that emphasize the knowledge created along the way, rather than focusing solely on the final artifact. The authors emphasize that design events are not just chronological happenings but also include objects, materials, and non-human actors, and they are porous and non-anthropocentric, reflecting the continuous becoming of materials, tools, and designers. The authors provide examples from their own practices to illustrate how these terms can be applied, such as moments of breakage in prototyping, encounters between different actors, transitions in task changes, pauses in waiting, rhythms in seasonal cycles, other-time in non-researcher influences, and temporal dissonances when events clash. They encourage RtD practitioners to use this vocabulary to better understand and communicate the temporal aspects of their work, promoting more transparent and open reporting of unexpected and non-rational events in design. The paper concludes by calling for more experimentation with non-chronological narratives in RtD publications, emphasizing the potential of design events to shift how researchers conceive, conduct, and report on their projects.The paper "A Temporal Vocabulary of Design Events for Research Through Design" by Doenja Oogjes and Audrey Desjardins explores the importance of temporal awareness in research-through-design (RtD) projects. The authors argue that the lack of temporal attunement in RtD reporting can obscure important contextual knowledge, hidden labor, material agencies, and potential knowledge contributions. They introduce the concept of "design events" as a way to articulate the granularities and nuances of RtD processes, drawing on philosophical roots and their own previous work. The paper proposes seven terms to expand the temporal vocabulary of RtD: moments, encounters, transitions, pauses, rhythms, other-time, and temporal dissonances. These terms are designed to help researchers build narratives that emphasize the knowledge created along the way, rather than focusing solely on the final artifact. The authors emphasize that design events are not just chronological happenings but also include objects, materials, and non-human actors, and they are porous and non-anthropocentric, reflecting the continuous becoming of materials, tools, and designers. The authors provide examples from their own practices to illustrate how these terms can be applied, such as moments of breakage in prototyping, encounters between different actors, transitions in task changes, pauses in waiting, rhythms in seasonal cycles, other-time in non-researcher influences, and temporal dissonances when events clash. They encourage RtD practitioners to use this vocabulary to better understand and communicate the temporal aspects of their work, promoting more transparent and open reporting of unexpected and non-rational events in design. The paper concludes by calling for more experimentation with non-chronological narratives in RtD publications, emphasizing the potential of design events to shift how researchers conceive, conduct, and report on their projects.