Welcome back to the PhD-Design List and Session 2 of the on-line
conference, Design in the University.
It is my pleasure to introduce Lorraine Justice, Director of the
Industrial Design Program in the College of Architecture at the
Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).
Prof. Justice has been in higher education for the past fourteen
years. She has worked and taught industrial design, graphic design,
and computer human interface design, as well as advising research
students, developing graduate programs, and working with the wide
range of issues that are required of professional scholars in
distinguished research universities.
Before she moved to Georgia Tech, Dr. Justice was Acting Chair and
Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial, Interior, and
Visual Communication Design at Ohio State University.
At Ohio State, Prof. Justice was awarded a National Endowment for the
Arts grant on the integration of technology and design, a SIGGRAPH
Educator's Grant, and a team Smithsonian Award in Education for the
"Mission to Mars" exhibition developed in cooperation with the
National Science Foundation and Apple Computer.
Dr. Justice has focused her research in the area of design research
and technology. She has published and presented her work worldwide on
topics such as interface design and animation.
She is a NASAD (National Association of School of Art and Design)
evaluator for design programs in the United States and she assists
educational institutions worldwide with curriculum development.
Lorraine Justice was a working designer for ten years for Battelle,
Goodyear, and Metatec. In recent years, she has consulted on software
design for such corporations such as Apple, CompuServe, Chemical
Abstracts, CheckFree, Microsoft, NCR, and Lutron. She is also a
Fellow of the Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA).
Like many of us, Lorraine Justice has crossed boundaries all her
life. She took her BFA in painting, her master's in industrial
design, and her PhD in communication.
What makes Lorraine Justice uncommon is that way that she enacts a
powerful commitment to the design community through resourceful
action. Together with Dennis Doordan, Dick Buchanan, and Victor
Margolin, Prof. Justice created - and then hosted - the first
international conference on doctoral education in design. She worked
closely with David Durling and with me on the second conference in La
Clusaz. Recently, she has been a consultant to the UCI design school
committee, and she is playing an important role in initiatives on
education and research for IDSA.
Lorraine is one of those people who bring a field to life, shaping
networks of dialogue and communities of concern. She is a highly
visible contributor. More important, she does much of the invisible
work that helps other people to do their visible work effectively.
It is a pleasure to introduce Prof. Justice to our on-line conference
on design in the university.
Welcome, Lorraine!
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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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