Contributeurs
Kristina Andersen works with electronics and
reclaimed materials to create unusual devices and
experience, but her work is primarily concerned
with how we can allow each other to imagine our
possible (technological) futures through the making
of exploratory objects. She teaches the combined
MA between STEIM and Sonology in Den Haag as
well as maintaining her own practice.
Mike Chiasson is a professor of Information Systems
in the Faculty of Management at the University of
British Columbia. His research examines how the
broad social context affects and is effected by IS
development and implementation, using a range of
social theories. He has examined various topics
y compris: system development and the effects of
IT with particular types of IT in medical, legal, entre-
preneurial, and governmental settings. His empirical
work mixes both quantitative and qualitative data,
with an emphasis on “participant” observation,
resulting in various contributions to social theory,
action research, research methods, and ethics.
Paul Coulton is the chair of Speculative and Game
Design at Imagination Lancaster—an open and
exploratory, design-led research lab at Lancaster
University. His research practice primarily embodies
“research through design” to develop design theories
from the speculative design of novel, hybrid, aussi
as physical and digital interactive future-focused
experiences and artifacts. The most recent examples
relate to the use of Design Fiction as a way of
exploring futures of emerging technologies.
Andy Darby is a PhD candidate in the HighWire
Centre for Doctoral Training in the School of Com-
puting and Communications, Lancaster University.
His research explores design fiction as a participa-
tory method.
Abigail C. Durrant is co-guest editor of this special
issue and is an associate professor and Leverhulme
Fellow in the School of Design at Northumbria
University, ROYAUME-UNI. Her research primarily explores the
design of digital systems and services to support
identity management and self-expression in a variety
of contexts and cultures, and across the human lifes-
pan. Abigail’s fellowship work investigates how
design research can deliver transferrable value within
interdisciplinary teams. She was a submissions chair
for the Research Through Design (RTD) Conference
2013, and general co-chair of Research Through
Design 2015 with John Vines.
Elizabeth Edwards is a designer and PhD candidate
based in the HighWire Centre for Doctoral Training
at Lancaster University. Her work uses a research-
through-design approach to explore the design of
hybrid physical and digital artifacts used to interpret
nature and outdoor places. Her research draws on
values-led design and critical theory of technology.
Joanna Foster is an artist, musician, and a PhD
researcher at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art
et conception. Her practice-led research explores song
performance and drawing practice as transformative
processes that can initiate connections between
people and place—adapting in real-time to shifting—
and multi-layered conditions of encounter.
Dan Gibson is an English musician and sound artist.
As a result of the improvised and collaborative nature
of his music, he has developed a long-term interest
in the creation of interfaces for intuitive musical
expression. Through the use of gestural interfaces and
dynamic mapping techniques, his research aims to
provide the spontaneous and expressive control
required in improvisational contexts.
Amy Twigger Holroyd is a designer, maker, et
researcher. Through her “craft fashion” knitwear
label, Keep & Share, she has explored the emerging
field of fashion and sustainability since 2004. Son
doctoral research informed her monograph, Folk
Fashion: Understanding Homemade Clothes (je. B. Tauris,
2017). She is a senior lecturer in Design, Culture &
Context at Nottingham Trent University, ROYAUME-UNI.
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Sean Kingsley supports students and researchers
from all art, conception, and craft disciplines at the
University of Dundee (DJCAD) in the making of
objets, particularly in ceramics. He also runs a con-
temporary pottery business, inspired by traditional
pottery practices. Sean completed an MPhil in 2006,
which compared the influence of alternative proto-
typing methods on the performance of small teams.
Nantia Koulidou is a second year PhD student in
Digital Jewellery. She practices co-design and theater
méthodes, and explores how digital technologies
and the intimate world of jewelery can open new
ways of personal meaningfulness during periods
of micro-transitions in our lives. Prior to her PhD
enrollment, she completed an MSc degree in IT
Product Design, and she has training in architecture
and silversmithing.
Ian Lambert is associate professor of Design and
director of the Art & Design Research Centre at
Edinburgh Napier University where he has taught
depuis 2001. He has published pedagogic research in
drawing, design in the developing world, et
micro-manufacture. Ian is currently undertaking
practice-led research into ocean plastic, and preparing
a homage to Yves Klein. With Chris Speed, Ian is
co-chair of the Research Through Design (RTD)
Conference 2017.
Ian Lynam is the cover designer for this special
issue, volume 33, Non 3, of Design Issues. Ian is a
Tokyo-based graphic designer, writer, and design
educator. He is co-chair of the MFA in Graphic Design
Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts and faculty
at Temple University Japan and Meme Design School.
ianlynam.com
Jane Norris is currently writing a book on materials
and time: Making Polychronic Objects at the RCA. Elle
writes a regular Dictionary of Craft column in the
Crafts Council CRAFTS magazine, opinion pieces
for design magazine Fiera, an article in the Toilet issue
of Dirty Furniture, and has near-future craft fiction
published in Virtual Futures Vol 1.
Jon Rogers holds a personal chair in creative technol-
ogy at the University of Dundee. His work explores
the human intersection between digital technologies
and the physical design of things. He balances playful
technologies with citizenship to find new ways to
connect people to each other and to their data.
Erika Shorter graduated from the University of
Alberta in 2010 with a degree in English Literature
and Journalism and from the University of Dundee in
2011 with an MLITT. She has five years of experience
as a writer, researcher, editor, and insight journalist.
She has previously worked with Canongate Books, le
University of Dundee, the Dundee Contemporary Arts
(DCA), and the Design Council. She frequently collab-
orates with artists, designers, makers, and thinkers on
a wide range of creative projects and publications.
Mike Shorter holds a degree in Product Design
(2007) and is a PhD candidate (prototyping for
emergent technologies) at the University of Dundee.
He has over 8 years of experience as a product
designer, university lecturer, and researcher. Mike
has worked with partners such as, NASA, Manchot
Random House, and Mozilla, and he co-founded the
design publication Fieldguide in 2012. He has pub-
lished journal articles, conference papers, and book
sections and has presented worldwide from London
Design Festival to Unbox Festival in India.
Chris Speed is chair of Design Informatics at the
University of Edinburgh where he collaborates
with a wide variety of partners to explore how design
provides methods to adapt, and to create products
and services for the networked society. He especially
favors transgressive-design interventions including
cups that hold coffee only while one is talking to
another in the queue, an application for sham mar-
riages using the blockchain, and an SMS platform for
shoplifting. With Ian Lambert, Chris is co-chair of the
Research Through Design (RTD) Conference 2017.
Alex S. Taylor is a sociologist working at Microsoft
Research. He has undertaken investigations into
a range of routine and often mundane aspects of
everyday life. Par exemple, he has developed what
some might see as an unhealthy preoccupation with
hoarding, dirt, clutter, and similar seemingly banal
subject matter. Most recently, he has begun obsessing
over computation and wondering what the compul-
sion for seeing-data-everywhere might mean for the
future of humans and machines.
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Rebecca Taylor is currently a doctoral researcher
funded by the EPSRC Digital Economy Program at
HighWire, Centre for Doctoral Training at Lancaster
University. Rebecca is also a founding partner of The
Curiosity Bureau—an experimental platform that
brings people together to be more deeply inquisitive
dans le monde.
Natasha Trotman is a Masters graduate in Informa-
tion Experience Design at the Royal College of Art,
with a background in graphic design and computer
science. Her practice includes human-computer
interaction, craft, and working with data, exploring
the voices within quantitative and qualitative data,
and creating physical interactions through investiga-
tive play. She has exhibited widely since 2013.
John Vines is co-guest editor of this special issue
and professor in the School of Design at Northumbria
University, ROYAUME-UNI. His research primarily focuses on the
participatory design of digital technologies, with an
emphasis on how digital tools and platforms might
support social innovation, positive experiences in
later life, and alternative models of social and com-
munity care. With Abigail Durrant he was general
co-chair of the Research Through Design 2015 confer-
ence, and is a submissions chair for the 2017 edition
of the conference.
Jayne Wallace is co-guest editor of this issue and
reader in Craft Futures in the School of Design at
Northumbria University. Her work spans digital craft,
interaction design and Human-Computer Interaction,
focusing on co-creative design practice and the
development of physical-digital devices that have
social and personal meaning to support well-being
and a sense of self. She is co-founder (with Joyce Yee)
of the Research Through Design conference series.
Joyce S. R.. Yee is co-guest editor of this special
issue and is an associate professor in Northumbria
University’s School of Design. Joyce’s research focuses
on the impact and value of design in social spaces and
the epistemological and methodological implications
of research through design. She is the co-founder
of the Design for Social Innovation in Asia-Pacific
réseau (DESIAP) with Yoko Akama, and established
the Research Through Design (RTD) Conference with
Jayne Wallace. She co-authored Design Transitions:
Looking at How Design Practices are Changing and
co-edited The Routledge Companion to Design Research.
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