Contributors
Kaja Tooming Buchanan is Professor of Design
Theory, Practice and Strategy and Director of the
Experience Design Research Lab in the College of
Design & Innovation at Tongji University, China.
She works in complex organizational environments
with a special focus on experience design, user
research, design theory and strategy. Her interest
lies in creative projects that impact organizations
and society at large, especially the experience of
people in social interaction in complex social and
cultural environments. She received her PhD in
Design from the Faculty of Fine, Applied, and
Performance Arts at Göteborg University, Sweden
in 2007. She has lectured and taught in universities
around the world and received more than twenty
cultural and research grants and awards.
Hugh Dubberly manages a software, service, and
systems design firm in San Francisco. He teaches
systems design in the Interaction Design Program
(MDes) at California College of Art, and design
theory in the Information Design and Data
Visualization Program (MFA) at Northeastern
University, where he is Professor of Practice.
Previously, he was Vice President of Design at
Netscape and managed Creative Services and
brand at Apple.
Rachel Hellgren is a design educator with a
background in visual communication and design
management and co-designer of this Design Issues
cover (vol. 38, no. 4 Autumn 2022). She composes
the Books Received annotations for Design Issues
and provides pre-production consultation for
selected submissions of the journal’s cover designs.
Rachel is a visiting assistant professor in the
Emerging Technology, Business, and Design
department at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio,
where she teaches courses in visual design principles,
design research, and interaction design. Her interests
include both BIPOC land practices and pedagogies.
Boris Hennig has studied Philosophy, Logic, and
Theory of Science in Leipzig, Germany. He authored
Aristotle’s Four Causes (New York: Peter Lang, 2019),
as well as many papers about historical and system-
atic topics in philosophy. He is Associate Professor
for Ancient Philosophy at Toronto Metropolitan
University.
Paul Kahn is a lecturer in the Information Design
and Data Visualization program at Northeastern
University. He currently leads the COVIC project.
He has previously been active in hypertext research
and design agencies in the US and France offering
services in information architecture, interface design,
and experience design. Currently, he lectures and
writes about information design history.
Jeffrey Kruth is co-designer of this Design Issues
cover (vol. 38, no. 4 Autumn 2022) and an assistant
professor in the Department of Architecture &
Interior Design at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
There, he works closely with the Miami University
Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-
Rhine and teaches courses on urban design, theory,
and critical practice.
Marzia Mortati is an associate professor in Service
Design at the Design Department of Politecnico di
Milano. She is Vice-Director of the International
Master in AI for Public Services and one of the
executive directors of the European Academy of
Design. Her research focuses on the design process,
service design, public sector innovation, and
new technologies. She has worked on numerous
international research projects collaborating with
researchers all over the world.
Matthias Rauterberg received a BS in Psychology
(1978), a BA in Philosophy (1981) and a BS in Computer
Science (1983), an MS in Psychology (1981) and in
Computer Science (1986, Germany), and a PhD in
Computer Science/Mathematics (1995, Switzerland).
He has over 500 publications in international journals,
conference proceedings, books, etc.
Dario Rodighiero works at the intersection of
knowledge design, critical data studies, and digital
humanities. He is an assistant professor of Sciences
and Technology Studies at the University of
Groningen, serving the multidisciplinary faculty
Campus Fryslân. He is affiliated at Harvard
University with metaLAB and the Berkman Klein
Center for Internet & Society. With Metis Press, in
2021 he authored Mapping Affinities: Democratizing Data
Visualization—a book about charting scientific com-
munities from a design-driven, ethical perspective.
Aggie Toppins is Associate Professor and Chair
of Design at the Sam Fox School of Design and
Visual Arts at Washington University. She works
at the intersections of studio practice and critical
writing to explore how visual communication
bears on social realities. Toppins is interested in the
appraisal of history, the negotiability of meaning-
making, and in using these critical orientations to
decouple design from universalist narratives of
capital. She has published in Design and Culture,
AIGA Eye on Design, Slanted, and Baseline Shift:
Untold Stories of Women in Graphic Design History.
D Wood has an MFA in furniture design from the
Rhode Island School of Design and a PhD in Design
Studies from the University of Otago, New Zealand.
She is an independent craft scholar whose artist
profiles and exhibition reviews have appeared in an
international roster of art and design publications.
Wood is the editor of Craft is Political (Bloomsbury
Visual Arts, 2021).
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