Guy Julier

I am the University of Brighton Principal Research Fellow in Contemporary Design at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

Until December 2010 I was Professor of Design at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.  From 2003 to 2010 I was Honorary Professor at Glasgow School of Art and in 2008 I was the William Evans Visiting Fellow at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

I have written the following books: New Spanish Design (1991), The Dictionary of Design since 1900 (1993; revised 2004) and The Culture of Design (2000; revised 2007). With Liz Moor of Goldsmiths, University of London, I co-edited Design and Creativity: Policy, Management and Practice (2009). I am on the editorial board of the Journal of Visual Culture and Design and Culture.

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Prasad Boradkar

I am associate professor and coordinator of the Industrial Design program at Arizona State University in Tempe. I trained as an industrial designer and a mechanical engineer, and have worked at Bajaj Auto in India, the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands as well as ITT Technical Institute in California. I'm Director of InnovationSpace, a transdisciplinary laboratory at Arizona State University where students and faculty from design, business and engineering partner with corporations to design and develop human-centered product concepts that improve society and the environment. My publications include Designing Things: A Critical Introduction to the Culture of Objects (Berg 2010).

During 2011/12 I am based in Pune, India where I am undertaking a research project on emerging conditions for design.

 

Hilde Bouchez

I am an anthropologist and historian of design and a lecturer in design history and design theory at Sint-Lucas, Department of Architecture, Interior-Architecture and Interior Design, Brussels/Ghent (Belgium). I publish as a researcher and design critic for several international magazines (A+U, De Architect, A+)and was founder and editor in chief of the design-magazine BEople; editor in chief of the fashion publication A Magazine. Author of Living and Working in Ghent, (1998) and Design for a new Century, (2004). I was also curator of Kunststof(f), art and design exhibition in MartHa museum, Germany (2002) and curator of Temporary Residence, art and design exhibition for Lille Cultural Capital (2004).

My PhD research is on the process of commodification of design.
 

 

Katie Hill

My research interests are in the use of design processes and design thinking in the context of regeneration and community development, and the politics of those practices. With a history in both academia and consultancy, I have worked for public sector clients including a number of Local Authorities on policy development and community consultation. I am a director and advisor to several social enterprises in Leeds including Leeds Love It Share It, and am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Lina Kang 

I have a BA(Hons) in Graphic Design and MA in Brand Development from Goldsmiths, London. I have worked in brand strategy with DesignFocus and Wolff Olins and have been a corresponding editor of the Korean magaine Gong Gan Sa Rang.

My PhD research is on social innovation and service design in South Korea.

 

Harun Kaygan

I received my BID and MSc (Industrial Design) degrees from the Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey in 2003 and 2006, respectively. After being employed as an industrial designer for a short period of time, I worked as a Research Assistant in the Department of Industrial Design at METU between 2004 and 2008. In this period, I undertook a range of teaching duties including industrial design tutorials and lectures on cultural aspects of design, especially semiological analysis and critique of consumption.

 

My Master's thesis was an enquiry into the ways in which the concept of nation has been utilised by the field of industrial design in Turkey to evaluate products and designers. I have since been interested in the role of design practice in the reproduction of nationality. I have published articles on everyday nationalism, national design, the design and emotion movement and visual criticism in English and Turkish; and my broader field of interest includes design theory and criticism, design culture and actor-network theory.

 

Currently I am a PhD candidate in Design and Architecture at the Brighton University, and part-time lecturing staff at Leeds Metropolitan University.

 

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Jette Lykke Jensen 

Osman Sisman 

Triin Jerlei