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Marco Bettiol is Assistant Professor of Business
Management at the Department of Economics
and Management at the University of Padova. His
research activity is focused on creativity and design
and their role for the competitiveness of SME and
industrial districts.

Cabirio Cautela earned his PhD in Business
Management and is Assistant Professor of Strategic
Design and Design Management at Politecnico
di Milano. His research topics deal with the strategic
role of design, the design management processes
and how design generates new business models
and new ventures. Since 2012, he has been Visiting
Scholar at Stanford University (Center of Design
Research) for the purpose of researching business
models’ evolution in start-ups’ early stages.

Alessandro Deserti is full professor at Politecnico
of Milano Design Department, where he teaches
product development in the School of Design. His
research focuses on approaches, processes, practices
and tools for the development and management of
design and design driven innovation. He investigated
the new roles of design within companies, institutions
and social environments, publishing books, essays,
articles in journals and proceedings of international
conferences. He has worked on applied research and
consultancy for many companies and institutions,
in Italy and abroad, coordinating projects at different
levels: strategy, tools and methods, product develop-
ment, communication and exhibition design.

Ilpo Koskinen was a sociologist, and has worked as
Professor of Industrial Design since 1999. His main
research interests have been in mobile multimedia,
the relationship of design and cities, and design
methodology.

Ezio Manzini had been full professor of Design at
Politecnico di Milano until his retirement in 2010.
He is Honorary Doctor at The New School of New
York (2006) and at the Goldsmiths College of London
(2008), and Honorary Professor at the Glasgow School
of Art (2009). He led the Doctoral Design Program of
Politecnico di Milano from 2000 to 2010. Presently,
his main interests are focused on design for social
innovation. He founded and is now promoting
the growth of DESIS, an international network on
Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability
(http://www.desis-network.org). He has been giving
many keynote addresses in different international
conferences, and he is author of many articles in
international journals and proceedings.

Tuuli Mattelmäki, originally trained as industrial
designer, has contributed to design research and
particularly on empathic design methods such as
probing and co-designing. She is Associate Professor
at the Department of Design at Aalto University
School of Arts Design and Architecture.

Stefano Micelli is Associate Professor of Business
Management at the Department of Management
of the University of Venice. His research interests
are focused on design management and on
internationalization processes for SME.

Donald A. Norman is cofounder of the Nielsen
Group, an IDEO fellow, Trustee of IIT’s Institute of De-
sign (Chicago), and former Vice President of Apple. He
is professor emeritus of Computer Science and Design
at Northwestern University and professor emeritus
of Psychology and Cognitive Science at the University
of California, San Diego. He is a member of the
American National Academy of Engineering and
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. At
Korea’s Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
(KAIST), he has been Distinguished Visiting Professor
of Industrial Design. He was awarded the Benjamin
Franklin medal in Computer and Cognitive Science
and has honorary degrees from the University of
Padua (Italy) and the Delft University of Technology
(Netherlands). Donald Norman is author of numerous
books including, Design of Everyday Things, Emotional
Design, and Living with Complexity. He can be found
at www.jnd.org.

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DesignIssues: Volume 30, Number 1 Winter 2014

Francesca Rizzo is Assistant Professor at University
of Bologna, Department of Architecture, where she
teaches Industrial Design. She worked on different
European and national research projects in the
field of Interaction Design and Service Design.
Her current research topics are service design
and design processes, especially in the area of
participatory design. Francesca Rizzo is author
of many articles published in the proceedings
of conferences (DPPI, HCI, IASDR, PD; DRS)
and journals (Codesign, Technology and Cognition,
Communication of the ACM). She has been a visiting
researcher at Aalto University, Finland, and
visiting student at University of Louisville, USA.

Alberto Sala is the cover designer for this
“Participatory Design” special issue vol. 30, no. 1
of Design Issues. An architect and designer, he
cofounded ASPS Design Studio in 2006—a studio
which encompasses different skills by mixing
product design, communication, graphic design
web application and illustration.

Kirsikka Vaajakallio has an MA in Industrial
Design and defended her doctoral dissertation
“Design Games as a Tool, a Mindset and a Structure”
in August 2012. She is specialized in user-centered
design focusing on creative teamwork, particularly
how game-like approaches—such as, design games—
facilitate collaboration during early phases of design
process. She is member of a research group, ENCORE
(Engaging Co-design Research), at Aalto University
School of Arts, Design and Architecture. She also
works as service designer in a Finnish design agency,
Diagonal Mental Structure.

Roberto Verganti is Professor of Management of
Innovation at Politecnico di Milano. He has been
a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Business School
twice, Copenhagan Business School, and Mälardalen
University in Sweeden. He serves on the European
Design Innovation Leadership Board of the European
Commission. His book, Design-Driven Innovation,
published by Harvard Business Press has been
nominated by the Academy of Management for the
George R. Terry Book Award as one of the best six
books published in 2008 and 2009. He can be found
at www.verganti.com.

Francesco Zurlo earned his PhD in Industrial
Design and is Associate Professor of Industrial
Design at Politecnico di Milano, where he has been
Deputy Director of INDACO (Industrial Design,
Art, Communication and Multimedia, Fashion
Department) and Director of the International
Master in Strategic Design. Held in China, he is
also Director of the International Master in Interior
Design and Management. He is author of numerous
international publications about Strategic Design.