Thank you, Dick Taylor. We appreciate your taking the time to join us
for this on-line conference. I am sure that there will be questions
and comments following the response.
To offer that response, it is my pleasure to introduce our next
speaker, Thomas Rasmussen.
Thomas Rasmussen is research director of Denmark's Design School. He
was hired to develop the school's new research program as the school
moves through a strategic transformation to university status. He is
also a board member of Denmark's national Research School in Culture,
Literature, and the Arts.
Thomas Rasmussen began his research career in literary history at
Aarhus University, where he also taught and held a research
fellowship. At Aarhus, he won the university gold medal with a
special thesis on Thomas Pynchon's authorship titled, In the Dance of
Things.
He completed his PhD in comparative literature in 2001 at the
University of Copenhagen, writing a dissertation titled, Putting
Through Changes -The Politics of Postmodern Fiction, Canon Formation,
Countercultural Lingo, and the Rosenberg Case.
Dr. Rasmussen has also worked in Paris, where he studied with Michel
Serres, and in New York.
Dr. Rasmussen has been traveling extensively to survey and compare
research education and research training programs at university-level
design schools, with recent trips to develop networks in the United
Kingdom, the United States, and Japan. He recent returned from an
OECD conference in Paris where administrative support for design
research was an important agenda issue.
Welcome, Thomas.
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Ken Friedman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design
Department of Leadership and Organization
Norwegian School of Management
Visiting Professor
Advanced Research Institute
Faculty of Art, Media, and Design
Staffordshire University
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