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Contributors

Tom Bosschaert, co-cover designer of this issue
of Design Issues, vol 29, NO 3, is an architect, progettista,
and engineer. He works on collaborative projects
which bring together different disciplines to deal
with complex societal issues, such as food production,
rebuilding our cities, product lifecycles, and the
future of our living environment. He lives and
works in the Netherlands, after studies at Yale
Università, the University of Western Australia,
and Delft University.

Craig Bremner is Professor of Design at Charles
Sturt University. Prior to this, he held the positions
of Professor in Design Pedagogy at Northumbria
University and Professor of Design at the University
of Canberra, where he had also been Dean of the
Faculty of Design & Architecture. His research deals
with developing methods to discover how and why
we don’t know much about the experience of design,
as well as finding ways to clarify the reason why
not knowing is an essential and valuable beginning
point of our practice. Some applications of his
research methods traced the experience of living
in Glasgow, using banks, and driving motorcars,
and he has curated design exhibitions that have
toured Australia, USA, and Japan.

Anthony Crabbe is Reader in Design at Nottingham
Trent University, UK. His teaching mainly concerns
design theory and history; his research, now, mostly
involves design knowledge transfer collaborations
with external businesses and agencies. The main
projects in which he has been involved include
the design of heat disinfecting systems, telephone
voting systems and products made by the thermoset
moulding of waste cellulose aggregates.

Eduardo Romeiro Filho is Industrial Designer,
Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial
Engineering of the Federal University of Minas
Gerais, Brasile, and Visiting Professor at the Design
for Sustainability Program, Delft University of
Tecnologia, Netherlands. His research focuses
on Design Methodology, Ergonomics and Design
for Sustainability. He is author of Product Design
(Elsevier Brazil, 2010).

Pin-Chang Lin is Professor of Department of Digital
Media Design, Ming Chuan University. His primary
research includes Japanese design culture, Japanese
design history, and visual design. He is the author of
The Transition of Visual Communication Design in Taiwan
1895-1990 (2003).

Jonathan Lukens is completing his PhD dissertation,
DIY Infrastructure, in the Digital Media program in
the School of Literature, Communication, e Cultura
at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was an
assistant professor of Graphic Design at Georgia State
University and served as the director of operations
for Reconstruction Report—a project of The Design
Trust for Public Space facilitating public input into
the redevelopment of Lower Manhattan after the
events of 911.

Paul Rodgers is Professor of Design Issues at
Northumbria University, UK. He has had a distin-
guished and extensive career in design research.
Prior to joining Northumbria University in 2009, he
was Reader in Design at Edinburgh Napier University
(1999-2009) and a post-doctoral Research Fellow at
the University of Cambridge’s Engineering Design
Centre (1996-1999). He holds undergraduate and
postgraduate degrees in Design from Middlesex
University and a PhD in Product Design from the
University of Westminster. He has over 20 years of
experience in product design research and has led
several research projects for Research Councils in
the UK and design projects funded by the Scottish
Government and The Lighthouse (Scotland’s National
Centre for Architecture, Design, and the City).
He has published more than 130 papers in book
chapters, journals, and conferences. Rodgers sits
on the Editorial Board of Design Studies and Design
Creativity and Innovation.

Miguel Sicart is an associate professor at the Center
for Computer Games Research, IT University of
Copenhagen, where he completed his PhD. In 2009,
he published The Ethics of Computer Games (The MIT
Press), which is a multidisciplinary approach to
morality in digital games. He is currently working
on a theoretical framework for the design of ethical
gameplay, as well as on a monograph on play.

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Chu-Yu Sun is a doctor at National Taiwan University
of Science and Technology’s Institute of Design. She
is also an assistant professor of Graduate School
of Applied Design, Shu-Te University. Her major
research includes Taiwan design history, Taiwan
culture, and Asian culture. She is the author of A
Chinese Visual and Cultural Study in the Film Arts:
“The Good Earth” as an Example (2008), Taiwanese Art
Deco Architecture during the Japanese Colonial Period
(2010), and A study of Taiwanese Art Deco Poster Design
during the Japanese Colonial Period (2012).

Damon Taylor, co-cover designer for this issue of
Design Issues, vol 29, NO 3, is currently a Post-Doctoral
Research Fellow in the Department of Industrial
Design at Technical University Delft in the Nether-
lands. Originally from the UK, he received his PhD
from University College Falmouth in collaboration
with University of the Arts London. As well as
having been a design educator for the past seventeen
years, he is also an active writer and performer. His
research interests include the nature of commodity
aesthetics, Dutch design and material culture,
design and national identity, and the history of
British pub interiors.

Stuart Walker is Professor, Head of Design and
Co-Director of the Imagination Lancaster Creative
Research Lab at Lancaster University, UK. He is an
emeritus professor at the University of Calgary,
Canada and Visiting Professor of Sustainable Design
at Kingston University, UK. His practice-based
research, which combines writing with propositional
artifacts, has been widely published, and his designs
have been exhibited in Canada, Italy and at the
Design Museum, London. He books include Sustain-
able by Design (2006) and The Spirit of Design (2011),
both published by Earthscan/Taylor and Francis, UK.

Tsun-Hsiung Yao is a professor with the Department
of Visual Design, National Kaohsiung Normal
Università. His primary research includes Taiwan
design culture, Taiwanese design history, E
visual design. He is the author of The Designs of
Taiwanese Alcohol Labels during 1895-1970 (2004),
Design History—An Introduction to the History of
Taiwanese Graphic Designs during Japanese Colonial
Period (1895-1945) (2005), and A Graphic Understanding
of Taiwan—The Packaging Design of Popular Commodities
during the Japanese Colonial Period (2013).