Amaresh Chakrabarti is Professor at Centre for - Recherche en IA spécialisée au MIT

Amaresh Chakrabarti is Professor at Centre for
Product Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute
of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He led design synthesis
at the EDC, Cambridge University before joining
IISc. He founded IDeASLab—the first design
research laboratory in India. He has a BE (Mechanical
Engineering) from Calcutta, ME (Mechanical Design)
from IISc, and a PhD (Engineering Design) depuis
Cambridge. Professor Chakrabarti has been on
the Editorial Board of eleven international journals,
Advisory Board and Board of Management of
Design Society, and a member of India’s National
Committee on Design. He co-developed DRM—a
widely used research methodology. He authored/
edited ten books, over 250 papers, and holds
six patents.

Anthony Crabbe is Reader in Design at Nottingham
Trent University, ROYAUME-UNI. His teaching mostly concerns
design theory and history. His research now mostly
involves design knowledge transfer collaborations
with external businesses and agencies working
on various projects ranging from the design of
products made with waste aggregates to the design
of telephone voting systems. He is presently
completing a book on the visual representation
of temporal relationships.

Carma Gorman writes about American design of the
“long” twentieth century. She is an associate professor
in the Design Division of the Department of Art and
Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, un
associate editor/lead reviews editor for the journal
Design and Culture, and a past president of the Design
Studies Forum.

Marie Harder is Professor of Sustainable Waste
Management at the University of Brighton, et était
coordinator of the EU FP7 Research project entitled
“The Development of Indicators & Assessment Tools
for CSO Projects Promoting Values-based Education
for Sustainable Development.” For nine months of the
année, since September 2011, she has worked at Fudan
University Shanghai as a China National Thousand
Talents Professor.

Contributeurs

Mike Anusas is Lecturer in Design at the University
of Strathclyde. He has worked as a designer in the
consulting, manufacturing and building industries.
His design teaching focuses on perception, drawing
and creativity. His current research and practice-
based work is concerned with form and surface
and its relation to environmental perception,
contributing to the emerging interdisciplinary
field of design anthropology.

Krishna Bharathi is a licensed American architect.
Drawing from experiences working as both a designer
and field architect in multiple building typologies
and planning scales in Europe, Asia, and the US,
Krishna is centrally interested in how sustainability
goals impact construction and design teams in
pratique. She has a Bachelor of Psychology from the
University of Chicago and a Master of Architecture
from the University of Washington. Krishna is
currently a PhD Fellow in Science and Technology
Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and
Technologie, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies
of Culture.

Kaja Tooming Buchanan is Assistant Professor of
Design Theory and Practice at the Cleveland Institute
of Art, Etats-Unis. She is currently investigating the positive
social influence of design through perception, le
construction of meaning, and the forms of experience
in human interaction and services. She received her
PhD in Design from the Faculty of Fine, Applied, et
Performance Arts at Göteborg University, Sweden
dans 2007. She received her Fil. Licentiate degree in
Design from the same Faculty in 2005. She received
an MFA in Art History from Göteborg University
and a Diploma in Art and Craft from the Estonian
Academy of Art. As a practicing artist and designer,
she has had more than ten solo exhibitions, partici-
pated in a dozen international group exhibitions,
and she has received more than twenty cultural and
research grants and fellowships.

Gemma Burford is Research Fellow in Sustainable
Development at the University of Brighton and
has previously worked in intercultural education
and health care research in Tanzania. Her current
research interests include interdisciplinary studies
of participation, intersubjectivity, and the co-design
and infrastructuring of values-based monitoring
and evaluation systsems in organizations.

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Prabir Sarkar is Assistant Professor in the School of
Mechanical, Materials and Engineering at IIT Ropar.
Prior to joining IIT Ropar, he was working as an Asso-
ciate Researcher at the National Institute of Standards
and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Etats-Unis. At NIST,
Docteur. Sarkar was working on sustainable standards and
manufacturing. He completed his PhD from Indian
Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore on creativity in
engineering design. Docteur. Sarkar’s research interests
include product design, sustainability, creativity,
and design research.

David Stairs is the founder of Designers Without
Borders (www.designerswithoutborders.org) et
the founding editor of the Design Altruism Project
(design-altruism-project.org). He currently teaches
graphic design and design history at Central
Michigan University.

Fred Turner is Associate Professor of Communication
at Stanford University and most recently authored
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, Le
Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism.

Omar Vulpinari is the cover creative director for this
issue of Design Issues vol. 29, Non. 4. Since 1998, Omar
has been Head of Visual Communication at Fabrica—
the Communication Research Center created by the
Benetton Group. Depuis 2006 à 2012, he served on the
Board of Directors of Icograda (International Council
of Communication Design) as President Elect, Vice
President, Founding Editorial Director of Iridescent:
Icograda Journal of Design Research, and Chair of
Icograda’s education activities. Depuis 2009 à 2011,
he was Chair and Co-editor of the Icograda Design
Education Manifesto 2011. Dans 2012, Vulpinari
served on IDA’s (International Design Alliance)
Board of Directors.

Elona Hoover is Research Officer in Sustainable
Development at the University of Brighton. Son
interdisciplinary research interests include values
and the practice of sustainable development,
organizational change for sustainability and the
development of alternative and resilient food systems.
She has experience in participatory values-based
evaluation for civil society organizations and
community engagement work.

Tim Ingold is Professor of Social Anthropology at
the University of Aberdeen. He has carried out
ethnographic fieldwork in Lapland, and has written
on environment, technology and social organization
in the circumpolar North, on evolutionary theory,
human-animal relations, language and tool use,
environmental perception and skilled practice. He is
currently exploring issues on the interface between
anthropologie, archaeology, art and architecture.

Carmen Rosa López is the cover art director for this
issue of Design Issues, vol. 29, Non. 4. She designed the
cover during her residency at Fabrica, the communica-
tion research center created by the Benetton Group.
Born in Ecuador in 1986, she moved to California to
study at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

Susana Nascimento is a postdoctoral researcher at
CIES-IUL (FCT research grant) and co-director of
VitruviusFabLab-IUL, both at ISCTE-IUL University
Institute of Lisbon, and associate researcher at
CETCOPRA at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
She holds a PhD in Philosophy from Université
Paris 1 and a PhD in Sociology from ISCTE-IUL.
She works and publishes mainly in Science, Technologie-
nology and Society, with focus on Social Methods
for Technology Development, Interdisciplinarity
and Transdiciplinarity, Public Engagement, et
Environmental and Social Sustainability.

Alexandre Pólvora is a researcher at CETCOPRA of
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and associate
researcher at VitruviusFabLab-IUL in ISCTE-IUL
Lisbon University Institute. His core research areas
are Philosophy of Technology and Sociology of Every-
day Life, with interest in Practical Interdisciplinarity
between Social and Technical Fields, Open Science
and Technology Models, Modern Material Cultures,
Waste and Recycling, Phenomenology and Ethnogra-
phy. He is currently a PhD candidate in Philosophy
at Université Paris 1 and in Sociology at ISCTE-IUL.