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Alan Blackwell is reader in interdisciplinary design
at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory,
having prior qualifications in professional engineering,
computing and experimental psychology. Before starting
his academic career, he had twelve years experience of
designing industrial systems, electronic and software
products, and is founder and co-director, desde 2001, de
the Crucible network for research in interdisciplinary
diseño.

Louis Bucciarelli is now emeritus, and holds a joint
appointment with MIT’s School of Engineering and the
Program in Science, Technology and Society. He is the
author of Designing Engineers (Cambridge, MAMÁ: CON
Prensa, 1994).

Kathleen Connellan is head of research at the School of
Arte, Architecture and Design at the University of South
Australia. She also plays a leading role in the teaching of
art and design history and theory. Her current research
examines connections between design studies and critical
race theory as she is particularly concerned with power
relations in designed spaces.

Chris Earl is Dean of Faculty in Mathematics, Informática
and Technology at the Open University, Reino Unido. Previously
Chris was Head of Department of Design and Innovation
and was appointed as Professor of Engineering Product
Design in 2000. His research interests include generative
and computational design methods, design processes
across domains as well as planning and scheduling
Design and Manufacturing processes. Before joining
the Open University, Chris was with the Newcastle
University Engineering Design Centre. He has a PhD in
Design from the Open University and graduated from
Oxford with BA, MSC in Mathematics.

Claudia Eckert is a Senior Lecturer in Design at the Open
Universidad, the British distance education university.
After a PhD conducting her doctoral research on
communication and inspiration in knitwear design,
she spent 10 years in the Engineering Design Centre in
Cambridge, where she conducted empirical studies in
engineering change and processes planning and collab-
orated on the developed of support tools. Comparisons
between different design domains has become a focus
of her research

Erin Friess is an Assistant Professor in the University of
North Texas’s Linguistics and Technical Communication
departamento. She teaches courses in technical communi-
cation and design. She received her PhD in rhetoric
from Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests
include small group communication, ethnography, y
user-centered design

Bruce Hanington is an Associate Professor and Program
Chair of Industrial Design in the School of Design at
Carnegie Mellon University. His research and teaching
encompasses the personal, social, and cultural context
of product design and interpretation, the meaning of
forma, human factors and ethnographic and participatory
research methods. He has consulted on design projects
with GE Appliance and Johnson and Johnson. His work
has been published in Design Issues, The Design Journal,
and Interactions, with chapters in Designing Inclusive
Futures, and Design and Emotion: The Experience of Everyday
Things.

Peter Kroes is professor in Philosophy, En particular
Philosophy of Technology at the section of Philosophy,
Department of Technology, Policy and Management,
Delft University of Technology, Los países bajos. Él
has an engineering degree in physics (1974) and wrote
a PhD thesis on the notion of time in physical theories
(University of Nijmegen, 1982). His current research
interests are the nature of technical artefacts and of socio-
technical systems, means-ends reasoning and the nature
of technological knowledge.

Grace Lees-Maffei, MA RCA FHEA is Reader in Design
Historia en la Universidad de Hertfordshire, where she
coordinates the tVAD Research Group in its work on
Relationships between Text, Narrative and Image. Ella
is co-editor, with Rebecca Houze, of The Design History
Reader (Iceberg, 2010). Grace’s publications examine the
mediation of design through channels including domestic
advice, corporate literature, advertising and magazines.
Grace co-convened the 2009 Design History Society
conference Writing Design with Jessica Kelly (Middlesex)
and she has served as an editor of The Journal of Design
Historia (2002–8) and as a trustee of the Design History
Sociedad (1998–2002).

Victor Margolin is Professor Emeritus of Design History
at the University of Illinois, chicago. He is a founding
editor and now co-editor of Design Issues. Books he has
written, edited, or co-edited include The Struggle for
Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917–1936,
Design Discourse, Discovering Design, The Idea of Design,
and The Politics of the Artificial. He is currently working
on a world history of design.

Johann van der Merwe, a design theorist, investigates the
ways of knowing the world that the sciences, humanidades,
and the arts are exploring. Mindful of Bateson’s “The
Pattern That Connects,” he tries to find meaning in this
complejidad. Johan is currently working on a doctorate
entitled A Grammatopology of Design Knowledge: Cartografía
Emergent Meanings in Socially Interactive Design.

Design Issues: Volumen 26, Número 3 Verano 2010

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Brett Ommen (PhD Northwestern University) es
an adjunct instructor of Communication Studies at
Northwestern University. His work focuses on the
intersections of public address and graphic design.

Eduardo Vivanco is a current PhD student at the Yale
School of Architecture. He was awarded a Fulbright
scholarship to study art at the School of the Art
Instituto de Chicago, and holds a MA in Modern and
Contemporary Art History, Teoría, and Criticism, ser
the sole recipient of the annual departmental Fellowship.
Vivanco got his B. Arch. in Spain, where he later worked
for Juan Navarro Baldeweg, opened his own firm, y
was Assistant Professor at the ETSA of Madrid, también
as lecturer in different schools of Architecture such as
the BAUHAUS in Weimar, Alemania. Both his work—as
architect and artist—and his writings have been
published and/or exhibited in Europe and the United
Estados.

Fedja Vukić is lecturer of design theory and history at
the Graduate School of Design, Faculty of Architecture,
University of Zagreb, Croatia. Professional training
included b.sc in History and Theory of Visual Arts
at University of Split, Croatia and PhD thesis at the
Department of Design, Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana,
Slovenia. Fellow of The Wolfsonian Foundation Research
Centre, Miami Beach 1995. He publishes reviews, artículos
and scientific papers on visual communications and
design in Croatian and international magazines. He has
published and edited several books, including Modern
Zagreb (1992), A Century of Croatian Design (1996), Zagreb-
Modernity and the City (2003), Modernism in Practice (2008),
Croatian Design Now with Victor Margolin, (2008).