It pains me to read some of the recent posts. I have known Ken, Don and Terry for more than 10 years. I hope that I could offer some of my experience and observations for reference.
In 2005, as a relatively unknown female professor from a university in Taiwan, I began to think about establishing a new journal in design, the International Journal of Design. At the time, Ken was visiting Taiwan as a Keynote speaker for 2015 International Design Conference in Yunlin, Taiwan. He was one of the very first few people with whom I discussed my thoughts and ambitions for an open-access high-quality journal on design research. Ken did not know me before then, but he generously offered his support full-heartedly. At no time was there any question about my gender, or about the possibility of trying to establish an international journal in Taiwan whose main language is not English, or the naiveness of trying to publish a journal independently without linking to a commercial publisher. No, Ken simply poured his support behind this new and unknown journal. In the early days of IJDesign, every time a new issue was published. Ken would forward the announcement to as many lists as possible --- enabling IJDesign to have a first break that it desperately needed --- being seen and read by design researchers all over the world. It is fair to say that IJDesign could not easily survive the first year, without Ken's kind and generous help.
After running IJDesign for more than 10 years now, I can more and more appreciate how much work and commitment is required to maintain a venue for scholarly exchange of ideas. Behind every lasting venue are the countless hours of the people that are committed to that venue and find time in their extremely busy schedules to support it. For Design Studies, Nigel Cross has contributed almost 40 years. For Design Research News, it is David Durling who summarizes and publishes the news every month, year after year. For PhD-Design List, it is Ken, Don, Terry and many others who continue to read and respond to posts by old and new members, regardless of their own workload. They keep this mailing list alive and offer a place where questions from young researchers can be answered by Ken and Don, for example. I sincerely hope that credits can be given to where they are due.
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