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John R. Blakinger is a doctoral candidate in art
history at Stanford University and a Twenty-Four-
Month Chester Dale Fellow at the Center for Ad-
vanced Study in the Visual Arts in Washington, D.C.
He studies the history, theory, and criticism of modern
and contemporary art. His dissertation considers
the relationship between art, ciencia, and militarism
during the Cold War through the work of Gyorgy
Kepes. He recently curated an exhibition titled The
New Landscape: Experiments in Light by Gyorgy Kepes
at Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center.

Søsser Brodersen is assistant professor at Department
of Development and Planning, Aalborg University
Copenhague. She has a Master degree and PhD
in Engineering. Her research focus is on the
socio-material approach to design and innovation.
Her main research areas are user-participation,
participatory design and user-driven innovation
with special focus on healthcare technologies, mar-
ginalized people and multicultural design challenges.

Kees Dorst is professor of Design Innovation at
the University of Technology, Sídney, and professor
of Entrepreneurial Design at Eindhoven University
of Technology, Los países bajos.

Gökhan Ersan is a visual communication designer,
design historian, and educator based in Chicago.
He holds a PhD in the history of art and design
at the University of Illinois, chicago. His writing
explores relationships between technology and
design in shaping material culture. He has taught
visual communication design at the School of the
Art Institute of Chicago since 2001, on topics ranging
from book design to information design.

Leonor Ferrão is an historian of Design and Architec-
tura. She is a postdoc fellow in the research Glossolalia:
an alphabet of critical keywords on design at the Faculty
of Architecture, University of Lisbon (FA/UL), funded
by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT). Ella es
Assistant Professor at FA/UL and Researcher of the
CIAUD (FA/UL). Her main teaching subjects include
history of architecture (Modern period), history of
diseño, theory of design and design criticism and
creative processes in design. Her main research
themes are classicism in architecture and product
design theory, crítica, e historia.

Rubén Fontana designed this cover of Design Issues
(volumen. 31, No.2). He is director of Typeface Design
Degree at the University of Buenos Aires, y
founder and director of the FontanaDiseño Studio.
He is editor of the Tipográfica magazine. Fontana
organized the Letras Latinas Biennale in 2004 y 2006,
and he designed the typefaces Fontana, Andralis, Chaco,
Palestina, and Distéfano. He was awarded by the Type
Directors Club of New York and ATypI; he has also
received the Platinum Konex Prize, The National
Design Award of Cuba, and Spain’s Design Award.
Fontana’s graphic work is displayed at the Museum
of Modern Art of New York.

Pedro Gentil-Homem is a Designer and Assistant
Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Arts,
Lusíada University of Lisbon (FAA/ULL), Member
of the Research Centre in Territory, Arquitectura
y Diseño (CITAD-ULL), and Collaborator of the
Research Centre in Architecture, Urban Planning and
Diseño, Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon
(CIAUD-FA/UL). He concluded postgraduate studies
in drawing at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Universidad de
Lisbon (FBAL) and PhD in Design at the Faculty of
Arquitectura, University of Lisbon (FA/UL). Main
teaching subjects: design and drawing. Main research
themes: Design History and Criticism.

Meiken Hansen has a Master of Science Engineering
in the field Design and Innovation. Her master thesis
was focused on user oriented product development.
She is currently a PhD student, studying smart-grid
innovation, intelligent homes and consumer practices.

John Harwood is Associate Professor of Art for
Modern and Contemporary Architectural History
and Co-Chair for Art History in the Department
of Art at Oberlin College. He is the author of The
Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design,
1945–1976 (University of Minnesota Press, 2011), y
an editor of Grey Room, a journal of art, architecture,
media and politics published by MIT Press.

DJ Huppatz is Senior Lecturer at Swinburne
University of Technology’s School of Design in
Melbourne, Australia. He recently completed an
edited collection, Diseño: Critical and Primary Sources,
for Bloomsbury.

Hanne Lindegaard is an Ethnologist with a PhD
in Engineering. She is associate professor in User
Oriented Design at the Department of Development
and Planning, Aalborg University Copenhagen. Su
main focus is on combining ethnographic field study
methodology with engineering design approaches.
Her research areas are a sociotechnical approach to
design and innovation, User Oriented Design, Field
observaciones, Co-creation, healthcare technology and
intercultural design challenges.

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Stephanie Wilson has a PhD from the University
of New South Wales, Australia, and a postgraduate
qualification in University Learning and Teaching.
She has been involved in numerous projects to
enhance learning and teaching practice in higher
education, and was recently involved in a national
project funded by the Australian Learning and
Teaching Council investigating curriculum
development in studio teaching.

Lisa Zamberlan is a senior lecturer and design
studio leader at the Faculty of Built Environment,
University of New South Wales, Australia. Ella
recently held the position of Faculty Learning and
Teaching Fellow and in this role collaborated on key
strategic change initiatives to enhance learning and
teaching experiences in the faculty. Su investigacion
examines the interrelated themes of the future of
design practice and learning and teaching in the
design studio.

Alen Žunić earned a Masters degree in Architecture
at the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb (summa
cum laude), and is now a post-graduate student at
Harvard University GSD with a major in theory
and philosophy of design. He has published scholary
papers on modern and contemporary architecture of
the 20th and 21st centuries, including Anthological
Architectural Guide to Zagreb (co-author with Z. Karać,
2012) y (Estafa)Text of Architecture (2015). He has
participated in several international conferences and
attended architectural workshops (p.ej., ETH, AA, etc.).

Matt Malpass is a Lecturer on MA Industrial Design
and a Research Fellow in Critical Design within the
Socially Responsive Design and Innovation Hub at
Central Saint Martin’s College of Arts and Design,
University of the Arts London. Sus intereses de investigación
focus on critical and socially responsive forms of
design and design-led social innovation.

Peter McNeil is Professor of Design History at
University of Technology Sydney and Professor
of Fashion Studies at Stockholm University. Su
publications investigate relationships between
artifacts, social space and the built environment.
They include Shoes (2006, with Giorgio Riello).

Victor Margolin is Professor Emeritus of Design
History at the University of Illinois, chicago. Él es
a founding editor and now co-editor of Design Issues.
Professor Margolin has published widely on diverse
design topics and lectured at conferences, universidades,
and art schools in many parts of the world. Books he
has written, edited, or co-edited include Propaganda:
The Art of Persuasion; WW II; The Struggle for Utopia:
Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917–1936; Diseño
Discurso; Discovering Design; The Idea of Design; El
Designed World; The Politics of the Artificial; y cultura
is Everywhere: The Museum of Corn-temporary Art. El
first two volumes of his three-volume World History
of Design will be published in early 2015.

Fedja Vukić is associate professor of design theory
and history at the Graduate School of Design, Faculty
of Architecture, University of Zagreb, Croatia. Vukić
got his PhD at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia,
and was a Fellow of The Wolfsonian Foundation
Research Centre, Miami Beach, Florida in 1995.
Fedja publishes reviews and scholar 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), y
Design Theory and History, A Critical Anthology (2013).

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