Case Transfer: A Design Approach by Artifacts and Projection

Rosan Chow holds a BA in Art and Design and a MDes from the University of Alberta, Canada. She has also obtained her PhD in ‘Designwissenschaft’ from the University of Arts Braunschweig, Germany. Since 2007, she has been a senior research scientist at the Deutsche Telekom Laboratories in Berlin. Her research interests include design methodology, theory, and discourse.

Wolfgang Jonas studied naval architecture and earned his PhD on the computer-aided optimization of streamlined shapes. He worked as a consulting engineer for companies in the automobile industry and the German standardization institute. Since 1988, he has been teaching CAD and industrial design, and doing design research on system theory and design theory, 1994 lecturing qualification (Habilitation) in design theory. Since 1994, he has been a professor at several German design schools, currently for “system design” at the School of Art and Design, University of Kassel. His focus of interest is design theory as meta theory, design methods in a systemic perspective, and scenario planning.