Hilde Heynen is Full Professor and Chair of the
Department of Architecture, KU Leuven–University
of Leuven. Her research focuses on issues of modernity,
modernism and gender in architecture. She authored
Architecture and Modernity: A Critique, and is co-editor
of several books: Back from Utopia: The Challenge of the
Modern Movement, Negotiating Domesticity: Spatial
Productions of Gender in Modern Architecture, and The
SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory. She regularly
publishes in journals such as The Journal of Architecture
and Home Cultures.
Antti Ikonen began his career as a composer, sound
designer and musician in the early 1980’s. His work
covers music and sound design for a wide range of
different kinds of performances and works of art,
including contemporary dance, theater, short films,
radio plays, art installations and new media. At Aalto
University, Ikonen is a lecturer of Sound Design and
Music at Media Lab, Department of Media, and a
member of SOPI (Sound and Physical Interaction)
research group. Ikonen was awarded “Teacher of
the Year” in the School of Art and Design in 2004
and 2010 by the student union.
Deborah Littlejohn is a researcher and educator,
teaching courses in graphic design, human centered
design research methods, and graduate courses at the
College of Design, North Carolina State University.
Examining emerging technologies and the practices,
methods and contexts in which design is understood,
her work focuses on how people experience and
interact with each other and the world through the
mediating influence of designed objects, systems
and services and how design is situated in culture
and society.
Yanni Alexander Loukissas is a lecturer at Harvard
in the Graduate School of Design and a principal at
metaLAB, a project of the Berkman Center for Internet
and Society. He is the author of Co-Designers: Cultures
of Computer Simulation in Architecture, an ethnographic
study of design practice, which explores ongoing social
and technological transformations in professional life.
Contributors
Leslie Atzmon is Professor of Graphic Design and
Design History at Eastern Michigan University. She
has an MFA in Graphic Design and a PhD in Design
History (Middlesex University, UK). Atzmon has
published work in the journals Design Issues, Design
and Culture, and Visual Communication. Her most
recent project is the collection Visual Rhetoric and the
Eloquence of Design (Parlor Press 2011).
Tevfik Balcıoğlu is Vice Rector and Professor of
Design at Yaşar University, İzmir. Studied at Middle
East Technical University, attended the Royal College
of Art, taught at Goldsmiths’ College and Kent Institute
of Art & Design, UK (1992-2002). He is the founder of
the Design History Society, Turkey (4T) and former
(founding) Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts & Design
at Izmir University of Economics (2004-2011). He
has organized international conferences and edited
several books, including The Role of Product Design
in Post-Industrial Society, and a special issue of Design
Journal, “A Glance at Design Discourse in Turkey.”
Rodrigo Cádiz is an Electrical Engineer and Music
Composer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica
de Chile (PUC) and earned a PhD in computer music
from Northwestern University. He is currently
Associate Professor at the Pontificia Universidad
Católica de Chile, where he co-directs the Center for
Research in Audio Technologies. He is interested
in digital signal processing, new interfaces for musical
expression, computer music and complex systems.
Patricio de la Cuadra is a Fulbright scholar with
a PhD in Computer Based Music Theory and Acoustics;
MA in Music, Science and Technology, and MSc in
Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
He is an accomplished musician with a Diplome
d’Interpretation Superior in flute from the Ecole
Normale de Musique in Paris. He is currently
Associate Professor at the Pontificia Universidad
Católica de Chile where he teaches musical
acoustics and co-directs the Center for Research
in Audio Technologies.
Bahar Emgin is an industrial designer by education,
receiving her Master’s in 2008 with a thesis that
inquired into discursive and formal strategies in
construction of Turkish design identity. She is currently
a lecturer at Yaşar University, Department of Visual
Communication Design and a PhD candidate at Bilkent
University, Department of Graphic Design. Her major
research areas include construction of modern gender
identities through visual/material culture and ideology
and culture of design in Turkey.
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David Mindell is the Frances and David Dibner
Professor of the History of Engineering and
Manufacturing and Professor of Aeronautics and
Astronautics at MIT. His books include Digital Apollo:
Human and Machine in Spaceflight; Between Human
and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before
Cybernetics; and War, Technology, and Experience aboard
the USS Monitor.
Heidi Overhill is a past President of the Association
of Chartered Industrial Designers of Ontario (ACIDO),
a PhD student in the Faculty of Information (the
iSchool) of the University of Toronto, and a Professor
in the Faculty of Animation, Arts and Design of
Sheridan College, Oakville, Ontario, Canada. She
recently co-authored DesignDirect: How to Start
Your Own Microbrand. In 2010, her project “MoMe:
The Museum of Me” was featured in Canadian Art
magazine. In 2008, she was a team member of
“SizeChina”—a digital anthropometric research
project that won a Gold Prize and Best in Show
Award in the IDEA Competition of the Industrial
Designers Association of America (IDSA).
Oğuzhan Özcan is a full professor and director of
Design Lab at Koç University. Özcan is specialized
in interactive design education and practice. He is
supervising a number of research projects, publications
and book contributions relating to interactivity and
design art. He was awarded a UNESCO Aschberg
Fellow in 2003. Özcan also is consulting for several
Turkish companies involved in interactive media
design such as VESTEL Electronic Research Group,
PARDUS, Operating System Development Group
in National Science and Research Foundation of
Turkey. His other publications can be accessed at
http://oguzhan.ozcan.info.
F. Kursat Ozenc is a senior user experience designer
for the Infrastructure Collaboration Products division
at Autodesk San Francisco. He holds a PhD from the
School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University with
focuses on Interaction Design and Human Computer
Interaction; an MFA in Visual Communication Design
from Sabanci University in Istanbul; and a Bachelor’s
in Industrial Product Design from Middle East
Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. His interests
cover both the digital and the physical realm, from
tangible interaction to social design.
Pam Schenk has been involved in researching the
role of drawing in the design process since the
mid-1980s and has published widely on the subject.
Currently a research professor at Heriot Watt
University, she has managed and taught on academic
programs at leading Art and Design Institutions
in the United Kingdom and Singapore, including
Glasgow School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan
University, Dundee University, and Nanyang
Technological University.
Susan G. Solomon is an architectural historian
who earned her PhD in 1997 from the University of
Pennsylvania. She has written extensively on Louis
Kahn. Kahn’s plans for the un-built Adele Levy
playground inspired Solomon to investigate urban
playgrounds. She wrote American Playgrounds:
Revitalizing Community Space (University Press
of New England, 2005) and has completed a new
book, The Science of Play, which will appear in
November 2014.
Alvaro Sylleros earned his MA from The Ohio State
University and is an industrial designer at Universidad
de Chile. He is currently Associate Professor from the
Design School at Pontificia Universidad Católica de
Chile. His research interests include Strategic Design,
addressing correlations between Interactions,
Personal Identities and Design Validation to find
conceptual models for Design Research, Interaction
and Experience Design to be applied in products,
services and innovation experiences.
Koray Tahiroğlu is a musician, researcher, and
lecturer at Media Lab, Department of Media, Aalto
University. He practices art as a researcher and
performer of interactive music. Tahiroğlu completed
his Doctor of Arts in 2008, with the dissertation entitled
“Interactive Performance Systems: Experimenting
with Human Musical Interaction.” He is founder
and head of SOPI (Sound and Physical Interaction)
research group, coordinating several projects with
research interests including embodied approaches
to sonic interaction, participative music experience,
multimodal physicality in sound and interaction.
Since 2004, he has been teaching workshops
and courses introducing artistic strategies and
methodologies for interactive music.
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Cameron Tonkinwise is the Director of Design Studies
at the School of Design Carnegie Mellon University.
He researches what the practice of designing can
learn from new materialism and the ontological turn
in Science and Technology Studies, as well as Service
Design for less materials intense ways of living
and working.
Rick Valicenti created the cover for this issue of
Design Issues vol. 30, no. 2. He is the founder and
design director of Thirst/3st, a communication design
practice. The White House honored Valicenti in 2011
with the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design
Award for Communication Design. For over 30 years,
his work continues to advance the public design
discourse while pushing the boundaries of graphic
and inter-media design.
Koenraad Van Cleempoel studied Art History in
Leuven, Madrid and London, where he obtained
his PhD at the Warburg Institute. Since 2005, he has
been engaged in establishing and directing a research
unit in interior architecture at Hasselt University
(Belgium). He supervises several PhD students of
interior architecture working on aspects of re-use
and research by design. He has published in several
journals including Journal of Interior Design, Interiors
Journal, and The Journal of Cultural Heritage Management
and Sustainable Development. Oxford University Press
published his book, Astrolabes at Greenwich: A Catalogue
of the Astrolabes in the National Maritime Museum.
Marijn van de Weijer studied Architecture at
Eindhoven University of Technology and Urbanism
at KU Leuven. He is currently a PhD candidate
at KU Leuven and at Hasselt University. He has
practiced as a designer on architectural and urban
design competitions and projects before starting
his PhD research in 2010. His research addresses
housing and the residential environment in
Flanders, with a focus on design strategies in
light of changing demographical, economical,
and ecological circumstances.
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