Contributors Joaquin T. Iduarte is a Mexican associate professor of the School of Architecture and Design of the Nancy Blossom is the director of the Interdisciplinary Autonomous University of the State of Mexico where Design Institute at Washington State University. She he received his BID. He studied a Master in Science joined the Design Institute in the summer of 2002 of Design at Arizona State University in the USA. after serving at George Washington University. She is He also obtained a specialty on Strategic Design. recognized as a leader in national and international His research interests include design management, interior design associations and has won awards for design education, and design sustainability. He has her teaching, campus leadership, design and service participated in several national and international to the interior design profession. Blossom’s research conferences and published some articles in design and published works are interdisciplinary looking and education journals. at issues of design and behavior, design theory, design of health care facilities for children, design Wolfgang Jonas studied naval architecture and education, and history. Her recent publications include earned his PhD on the computer-aided optimization “k” “Perceptions of Light–Space Compositions: Is Light of streamlined shapes. He worked as a consulting Like Language?” (with M. Beever, Journal of Interior engineer for companies in the automobile industry Downloaded from http://direct.mit.edu/desi/article-pdf/26/4/109/1714822/desi_x_00048.pdf by guest on 01 October 2021 Design, 2009) and “Risk as a Window to Agency: A and the German standardization institute. Since 1988, Case Study of Three Decorators” (with J. Turpin, he has been teaching CAD and industrial design, and Journal of Interior Design, 2008). doing design research on system theory and design Rosan Chow holds a BA in Art and Design and a MDes theory, 1994 lecturing qualification (Habilitation) in from the University of Alberta, Canada. She has also design theory. Since 1994, he has been a professor at obtained her PhD in ‘Designwissenschaft’ from the several German design schools, currently for “system University of Arts Braunschweig, Germany. Since 2007, design” at the School of Art and Design, University of she has been a senior research scientist at the Deutsche Kassel. His focus of interest is design theory as meta Telekom Laboratories in Berlin. Her research interests theory, design methods in a systemic perspective, and include design methodology, theory, and discourse. scenario planning.

Elizabeth Coleman has been the ninth president of Peter Kroes is professor in Philosophy, in particular Bennington College since 1987. Her vision for the Philosophy of Technology at the section of Philosophy, liberal arts and their role and reinvigoration in society department of Technology, Policy and Management, has been widely recognized in the United States and Delft University of Technology, The . He abroad. She speaks nationally and internationally, and has an engineering degree in physics (1974) and wrote in 2009 delivered the concluding presentation at the a PhD thesis on the notion of time in physical theories 25th anniversary TED Conference. Prior to assuming (University of Nijmegen, 1982). His current research the presidency at Bennington, Coleman was the dean interests are the nature of technical artefacts and of of the College of Arts and Sciences and a professor socio-technical systems, means-ends reasoning and the of humanities at the New School for Social Research nature of technological knowledge. in New York, where she founded and directed the school’s first ventures in undergraduate education, François Nsenga is an independent researcher in and a professor of literature at SUNY-Stony Brook. She Industrial Design. He studied Design at the University received her doctorate from Columbia, her master’s of Nairobi (Kenya) and at the Université de Montréal. degree from Cornell, and bachelor’s degree from the He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design University of Chicago. (1977), a Master’s degree in Applied Sciences (Aménagement) (1979), and a Master’s degree in Jack Henrie Fisher is a designer and writer currently Sociology (2001). Studies in Ergonomics (1991–1992). based in the Netherlands, where he is a design researcher at the Academie. His recent Isil Oygur is a doctor of design candidate at the work has investigated intersections of transcription, Interdisciplinary Design Institute of Washington technology, and conditions for the non-expert State University Spokane. She received her B.I.D. transmission of knowledge. Forthcoming book from Department of Industrial Design, Middle East publications include Becoming-major/Becoming-minor Technical University and her M.Sc. from Department and Essays in Metrical Transcription, both published of Industrial Product Design, Istanbul Technical by the Jan van Eyck Academie. University. Her research interests include user-centered design and user research, with a specific focus on an integrated approach to design ethnography and contextual differences in the application of user research methods and user-centered design.

Design Issues: Volume 26, Number 4 Autumn 2010 109 Jan van Toorn studied graphic design at the Institute of Arts and Crafts [later ] in [1950–1953]. He has been a freelance designer since 1957 and lives and works in Amsterdam. From 1991 until 1998 he was director of the Jan van Eyck Academy in . His publications include Design Beyond Design: Critical Reflection and the Practice of Visual Communication (ed.) and Design’s Delight: Method and Means of a Dialogic Approach. Rick Poynor published a book on his work, Jan van Toorn: Critical Practice, in 2006.

Stuart Walker is Co-Director of the ImaginationLancaster creative research lab at Lancaster University, UK and Visiting Professor of Sustainable Design at Kingston University, UK. Formerly, he Downloaded from http://direct.mit.edu/desi/article-pdf/26/4/109/1714822/desi_x_00048.pdf by guest on 01 October 2021 was Associate Dean at the Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary, Canada where he retains an affiliation. His research papers have been published and presented internationally and his conceptual designs have been exhibited at the Design Museum, London, across Canada, in Rome and, most recently, at the Storey Gallery, Lancaster, UK. He serves on the editorial boards of several international journals. His book, Sustainable by Design: Explorations in Theory and Practice is published by Earthscan, London, and Enabling Solutions, co-authored with Ezio Manzini and Barry Wylant is published by the University of Calgary Press.

Martha Patricia Zarza is a Mexican Associate Professor of the School of Architecture and Design of the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico. She is an industrial designer and received a Master in Products Development in the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain. She also received a Master in Science of Design at Arizona State University in the USA. She has a PhD in Social Science. Her research interests include gender issues of design, design management and design sustainability. She has published several articles in national and international journals. She is a member of the national system of researchers.

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