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Contributors

Mariana Amatullo is the co-founder and vice
president of Designmatters at ArtCenter College of
Design, Pasadena, where she has overseen a portfolio
of educational and research collaborations in design
and social innovation since 2001. She received her
PhD in Management from the Weatherhead School
of Management at Case Western Reserve University
In 2015. She is presently a Scholar-in-Residence at the
Weatherhead School where her research focuses
on the impact of design in social innovation and
organizational practice. She holds an MA in Art
History and Museum Studies from the University of
Southern California, and a Licence en Lettres Degree
from the Sorbonne University, Paris.

Angus Donald Campbell is head of the Department
of Industrial Design at the University of Johannesburg
with over a decade of university lecturing, research
and freelance design experience. His design research
focuses on the nexus of social, ecological and techno-
logical systems within the South African context. Lui
is co-founder of the Design Society Development DESIS
Lab and is a co-researcher in the interdisciplinary
research project Izindaba Zokudla (Conversations about
Food): Innovation in the Soweto Food System. http://
www.angusdonaldcampbell.com

Carl DiSalvo is an associate professor in the School of
Letteratura, Media and Communication at the Georgia
Institute of Technology. At Georgia Tech he directs
the Public Design Workshop: a design research studio
that explores socially-engaged design and civic media.
He is also a co-editor of the MIT Press journal Design
Issues. DiSalvo’s scholarship draws together theories
and methods from design research and design stud-
ies, and from the social sciences and the humanities,
to analyze the social and political qualities of design,
and to prototype experimental systems and services.
DiSalvo holds a PhD in Design from Carnegie Mellon
Università (2006).

Toke Riis Ebbesen is assistant professor at the
cross-disciplinary unit SDU Design Research at the
University of Southern Denmark. He is a researcher
in design communication and digital design based
within the academic fields of design history, progetto
culture, material culture and product semiotics.

John M. Flach is currently a professor in the Depart-
ment of Psychology with a joint appointment in the
Biomedical, Industrial, & Human Factors Engineering
Department at Wright State University, Dayton, OH.
His research interests are in applied cognitive psy-
chology and the implications for human-technology
integration in sociotechnical systems.

Per Liljenberg Halstrøm is a PhD candidate at The
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design
(KADK) and The Copenhagen School of Design and
Tecnologia (KEA). Having a background in rhetoric
and fiction writing, his research is primarily con-
cerned with how designers and design education
programs may benefit from both ancient and modern
theory on storytelling and rhetoric.

Rachel Hellgren is the cover designer of this issue
of Design Issues (Volume XXXIII, Numero 1 Inverno
2017). She is a designer, researcher, and educator.
Rachel is currently pursuing a PhD in Design and
Innovation at Case Western Reserve University,
with a focus on emotion and its role in organizational
progetto. Her interests span many subjects, including
typography, visual foundations, brand identity,
letterpress printing, and houseplant rescue.

Judy Matthews is a senior lecturer at the Queensland
University of Technology (QUT) Business School in
Brisbane, Australia, where she teaches both MBAs
and senior executives on the topics of innovation
management, facilitates problem framing and problem
solving in complex environments, and uses design
thinking to develop and execute new possibilities.
Her enthusiasm for the importance of innovation
management can be traced to her research into inno-
vation systems in Australia, in public sector research,
and development and in the management of change.
For the last six years, Judy has been an active research-
er and facilitator in the development and application
of design mindsets and methods, recognizing that the
frameworks, tools, and mindsets of designers can be
used to help managers to problem solve and innovate
in their businesses and develop new business models.

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Erez Nusem explored the field of Design-led
Innovation through an applied research project for
two years, working as an embedded practitioner.
Through his research, Erez explored the application
of design principles to generate innovative business
models and organizational strategy. He also holds a
PhD in Design-led Innovation as well as an Honors
degree in Design (Architecture) from the Queensland
University of Technology.

Barbara Predan is assistant professor, theoretician,
progettista, author, and Design for Europe Ambassador.
She is co-founder and leader of the department of
design theory at the Pekinpah Association, E
director of the Ljubljana Institute of Design, an
academic research organization. She has published
several professional and scholarly articles and is
the author or coauthor of four books. She has edited
ten books and curated eight exhibitions.

Astrid Skjerven is a professor in design theory at
The Department of Product design, Oslo and
Akershus University College, Norway. She has a
doctorate in art history from The University of Oslo.
Her special fields of interest is the phenomenon of
Scandinavian design seen in a global context; IL
impact of design on daily life; and cultural sustain-
ability. She has published articles in books and inter-
national scientific journals, and was co-editor of a
special issue on design in the journal Sustainable
Development. She is a National Committee Deputy
Member of the EU based COST Action of Cultural
Sustainability, a member of the Norwegian Research
Council’s JPI Research Group, of the board of The
International Society on Sustainable Development
Research, and a member of its editorial board,
and member of the Advisory Board of the journal
FORMakademisk.

Pieter Jan Stappers is professor of Design Techniques
at Delft University of Technology. His research and
teaching deal with the early phases of design projects,
with a focus on understanding the context and needs
of end-users, matching these needs with opportuni-
ties in new technology, and communicating needs,
ideas, and product/service concepts.

Fred A. Voorhorst is currently a consultant on
Business Development with focus on innovation
management in advisory processes. The last decade
he has mainly worked in industry in various domains
including software solutions, fashion and financial
services, with focus on designing processes and
solutions that bridge business objectives, product/
service design and client needs.

Cara Wrigley is principal research fellow at the
Design & Innovation Research Centre at the
University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia.
The Design & Innovation Research Centre (DI:rc)
is a trans-disciplinary research center located at UTS,
focusing on the development of innovative, progetto-
oriented research with the potential to transform
companies. Building on her solid practical industry
experience and combined with her scholarly expertise
in emotional design, she is actively researching the
value that design holds in business—specifically
through the creation of strategies to design business
models which lead to emotive customer engagement.
Cara has presented and published widely in the
field of design-led innovation and currently leading
several initiatives to contribute to both industry and
academia on the value of design to business.