It is now my pleasure to introduce the commentators for Session 3,
Linda Drew, Wolfgang Jonas, and Harold Nelson.
Dr. Linda Drew is Dean of Academic Development at Chelsea College of
Art and Design. She came to this post from a position as Co-Director
of the Learning and Teaching Support Network for Art, Design, and
Communication (ADC-LTSN) subject centre at the University of Brighton
from June 2000 to September 2003. As co-director of the centre, Linda
established a national profile in learning and teaching in art,
design and communication working with development and pedagogic
research projects, events on learning and teaching themes, workshops,
advice and consultancy. She is also well known in our field as
founding editor of the refereed journal Art, Design, and
Communication in Higher Education.
Dr. Drew has had teaching appointments at the London College of
Printing and the London College of Fashion. At LCF she developed
honors BA in fashion studies, working with such courses as fashion
design, forecasting, marketing, and fashion related cultural and
design historical studies.
Following a degree in fashion design from St Martins School of Art
and a master's degree in history of design at Middlesex University,
Linda earned a PhD in educational research at Lancaster University.
Her research involved conceptions of teaching and approaches to
practice-based teaching in art, design, and communication.
Wolfgang Jonas studied naval architecture at the Technical University
of Berlin where he did research on a computer-aided optimization of
streamlined shapes lading to a PhD. He has been a consulting engineer
for companies in the automobile industry and the German
standardization institute.
Prof. Jonas has been teaching CAD for industrial design and
conducting research in system theory and design theory since 1988.
Jonas's first academic positions were at the University of Arts
Berlin and at the University of Wuppertal. In 1994, he earned his
lecturer's qualification (Habilitation) in design theory, after which
he became professor of process design at the University of Art and
Design Halle / Burg Giebichenstein.
Wolfgang Jonas is now professor of design theory at the Hochschule
fuer Kuenste in Bremen, Germany.
Dr. Harold G. Nelson is the President and co-founding Director of the
Advanced Design Institute. Harold works as a consultant to
corporations, governmental agencies, international organizations, and
educational institutions in the area of organizational design
competence. He is also Affiliated Associate Professor of Mechanical
Engineering and a member of the Extended Faculty in the Information
School at the University of Washington. His focus is teaching and
research in systems design.
Prof. Nelson is past president of the International Society for
Systems Science. Long engaged in systems research, he earned his
Ph.D. in Social Systems Design from the University of California at
Berkeley where he worked closely with the legendary West Churchman.
For over 12 years, Dr. Nelson was the head of the graduate programs
in social and organizational systems design at Antioch University. He
is also a practicing designer and architect, and a registered
architect in the state of California.
Together with Erik Stolterman, Harold nelson wrote The Design Way.
IMHO, this book joins Victor Margolin's Politics of Design as one of
the most thoughtful and important design books of the past year.
Welcome, Linda, Jonas, and Harold!
--
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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