Creative Practice and Critical Reflection: Productive Science in Design Research

Kaja Tooming Buchanan is Assistant Professor of Design Theory and Practice at the Cleveland Institute of Art, USA. She is currently investigating the positive social influence of design through perception, the construction of meaning, and the forms of experience in human interaction and services. She received her PhD in Design from the Faculty of Fine, Applied, and Performance Arts at Göteborg University, Sweden in 2007. She received her Fil. Licentiate degree in Design from the same Faculty in 2005. She received an MFA in Art History from Göteborg University and a Diploma in Art and Craft from the Estonian Academy of Art. As a practicing artist and designer, she has had more than ten solo exhibitions, participated in a dozen international group exhibitions, and she has received more than twenty cultural and research grants and fellowships.