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Contributors Hilde Heynen is Full Professor and Chair of the Department of , KU Leuven–University Leslie Atzmon is Professor of Graphic and of Leuven. Her research focuses on issues of modernity, at Eastern Michigan University. She modernism and gender in architecture. She authored has an MFA in and a PhD in Design Architecture and Modernity: A Critique, and is co-editor History (Middlesex University, UK). Atzmon has of several books: Back from Utopia: The Challenge of the published work in the journals Design Issues, Design Modern Movement, Negotiating Domesticity: Spatial and Culture, and Visual . Her most Productions of Gender in Modern Architecture, and The recent project is the collection Visual and the SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory. She regularly Eloquence of Design (Parlor Press 2011). publishes in journals such as The Journal of Architecture and Home Cultures. Tevfik Balcıoğlu is Vice Rector and Professor of Design at Yaşar University, İzmir. Studied at Middle Antti Ikonen began his career as a composer, sound East Technical University, attended the Royal College and musician in the early 1980’s. His work of , taught at Goldsmiths’ College and Kent Institute covers music and for a wide range of of Art & Design, UK (1992-2002). He is the founder of different kinds of performances and works of art, Downloaded from http://direct.mit.edu/desi/article-pdf/30/2/122/1716306/desi_x_00272.pdf by guest on 23 September 2021 the Design History Society, Turkey (4T) and former including contemporary dance, theater, short films, (founding) Dean of the Faculty of Fine & Design radio plays, art installations and new . At Aalto at Izmir University of Economics (2004-2011). He University, Ikonen is a lecturer of Sound Design and has organized international conferences and edited Music at Media Lab, Department of Media, and a several books, including The Role of Product Design member of SOPI (Sound and Physical Interaction) in Post-Industrial Society, and a special issue of group. Ikonen was awarded “Teacher of Journal, “A Glance at Design Discourse in Turkey.” the Year” in the School of Art and Design in 2004 and 2010 by the student union. Rodrigo Cádiz is an Electrical Engineer and Music Composer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Deborah Littlejohn is a researcher and educator, de Chile (PUC) and earned a PhD in computer music teaching courses in graphic design, human centered from Northwestern University. He is currently design research methods, and graduate courses at the Associate Professor at the Pontificia Universidad College of Design, North Carolina State University. Católica de Chile, where he co-directs the Center for Examining emerging and the practices, Research in Audio Technologies. He is interested methods and contexts in which design is understood, in digital signal processing, new interfaces for musical her work focuses on how people experience and expression, computer music and complex systems. interact with each other and the world through the mediating influence of designed objects, systems Patricio de la Cuadra is a Fulbright scholar with and services and how design is situated in culture a PhD in Computer Based Music Theory and Acoustics; and society. MA in Music, Science and , and MSc in Electrical from Stanford University. Yanni Alexander Loukissas is a lecturer at Harvard He is an accomplished musician with a Diplome in the Graduate School of Design and a principal at d’Interpretation Superior in flute from the Ecole metaLAB, a project of the Berkman Center for Internet Normale de Musique in Paris. He is currently and Society. He is the author of Co-: Cultures Associate Professor at the Pontificia Universidad of Computer Simulation in Architecture, an ethnographic Católica de Chile where he teaches musical study of design practice, which explores ongoing social acoustics and co-directs the Center for Research and technological transformations in professional life. in Audio Technologies.

Bahar Emgin is an industrial designer by education, receiving her Master’s in 2008 with a thesis that inquired into discursive and formal strategies in construction of Turkish design identity. She is currently a lecturer at Yaşar University, Department of Design and a PhD candidate at Bilkent University, Department of Graphic Design. Her major research areas include construction of modern gender identities through visual/material culture and ideology and culture of design in Turkey.

122 DesignIssues: Volume 30, Number 2 Spring 2014 David Mindell is the Frances and David Dibner Pam Schenk has been involved in researching the Professor of the History of Engineering and role of drawing in the design process since the Manufacturing and Professor of Aeronautics and mid-1980s and has published widely on the subject. Astronautics at MIT. His books include Digital Apollo: Currently a research professor at Heriot Watt Human and Machine in Spaceflight; Between Human University, she has managed and taught on academic and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before programs at leading Art and Design Institutions Cybernetics; and War, Technology, and Experience aboard in the United Kingdom and Singapore, including the USS Monitor. , Manchester Metropolitan University, Dundee University, and Nanyang Heidi Overhill is a past President of the Association Technological University. of Chartered Industrial Designers of Ontario (ACIDO), a PhD student in the Faculty of (the Susan G. Solomon is an architectural historian iSchool) of the University of Toronto, and a Professor who earned her PhD in 1997 from the University of in the Faculty of Animation, Arts and Design of Pennsylvania. She has written extensively on Louis Sheridan College, Oakville, Ontario, Canada. She Kahn. Kahn’s plans for the un-built Adele Levy recently co-authored DesignDirect: How to Start playground inspired Solomon to investigate urban Downloaded from http://direct.mit.edu/desi/article-pdf/30/2/122/1716306/desi_x_00272.pdf by guest on 23 September 2021 Your Own Microbrand. In 2010, her project “MoMe: playgrounds. She wrote American Playgrounds: The Museum of Me” was featured in Canadian Art Revitalizing Community Space (University Press magazine. In 2008, she was a team member of of New England, 2005) and has completed a new “SizeChina”—a digital anthropometric research book, The Science of Play, which will appear in project that won a Gold Prize and Best in Show November 2014. Award in the IDEA Competition of the Industrial Designers Association of America (IDSA). Alvaro Sylleros earned his MA from The Ohio State University and is an industrial designer at Universidad Oğuzhan Özcan is a full professor and director of de Chile. He is currently Associate Professor from the Design Lab at Koç University. Özcan is specialized Design School at Pontificia Universidad Católica de in interactive and practice. He is Chile. His research interests include , supervising a number of research projects, publications addressing correlations between Interactions, and book contributions relating to interactivity and Personal Identities and Design Validation to find design art. He was awarded a UNESCO Aschberg conceptual models for Design Research, Interaction Fellow in 2003. Özcan also is consulting for several and Experience Design to be applied in products, Turkish companies involved in interactive media services and innovation experiences. design such as VESTEL Electronic Research Group, PARDUS, Operating System Development Group Koray Tahiroğlu is a musician, researcher, and in National Science and Research Foundation of lecturer at Media Lab, Department of Media, Aalto Turkey. His other publications can be accessed at University. He practices art as a researcher and http://oguzhan.ozcan.info. performer of interactive music. Tahiroğlu completed his Doctor of Arts in 2008, with the dissertation entitled F. Kursat Ozenc is a senior designer “Interactive Performance Systems: Experimenting for the Infrastructure Collaboration Products division with Human Musical Interaction.” He is founder at Autodesk San Francisco. He holds a PhD from the and head of SOPI (Sound and Physical Interaction) School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University with research group, coordinating several projects with focuses on Interaction Design and Human Computer research interests including embodied approaches Interaction; an MFA in Visual Communication Design to sonic interaction, participative music experience, from Sabanci University in Istanbul; and a Bachelor’s multimodal physicality in sound and interaction. in Industrial Product Design from Middle East Since 2004, he has been teaching workshops Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. His interests and courses introducing artistic strategies and cover both the digital and the physical realm, from methodologies for interactive music. tangible interaction to .

DesignIssues: Volume 30, Number 2 Spring 2014 123 Cameron Tonkinwise is the Director of at the School of Design Carnegie Mellon University. He researches what the practice of designing can learn from new materialism and the ontological turn in Science and Technology Studies, as well as for less materials intense ways of living and working.

Rick Valicenti created the cover for this issue of Design Issues vol. 30, no. 2. He is the founder and of Thirst/3st, a communication design practice. The White House honored Valicenti in 2011 with the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Award for Communication Design. For over 30 years, his work continues to advance the public design discourse while pushing the boundaries of graphic Downloaded from http://direct.mit.edu/desi/article-pdf/30/2/122/1716306/desi_x_00272.pdf by guest on 23 September 2021 and inter-media design.

Koenraad Van Cleempoel studied Art History in Leuven, Madrid and London, where he obtained his PhD at the Warburg Institute. Since 2005, he has been engaged in establishing and directing a research unit in at Hasselt University (Belgium). He supervises several PhD students of interior architecture working on aspects of re-use and research by design. He has published in several journals including Journal of , Interiors Journal, and The Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development. Oxford University Press published his book, Astrolabes at Greenwich: A Catalogue of the Astrolabes in the National Maritime Museum.

Marijn van de Weijer studied Architecture at Eindhoven University of Technology and Urbanism at KU Leuven. He is currently a PhD candidate at KU Leuven and at Hasselt University. He has practiced as a designer on architectural and competitions and projects before starting his PhD research in 2010. His research addresses housing and the residential environment in Flanders, with a focus on design strategies in light of changing demographical, economical, and ecological circumstances.

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