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Design Research in Germany?
Rosan Chow,
Rosan Chow
Rosan Chow is visiting Professor of Designwissenschaft at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design. Her research and teaching focus on design theory, methodology and research. She holds a PhD on Designwissenschaft from the Braunschweig University of Art. Before arriving in Germany, she studied, practiced, and taught Visual Communication Design in Canada, Hong Kong, and United States.
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Wolfgang Jonas,
Wolfgang Jonas
Wolfgang Jonas studied Naval Architecture and completed his PhD on Methodology in 1984 and his Habilitation on Design and Systems Theory in 1994. He is Professor for Designwissenschaft at Braunschweig University of Art, Institute for Transportation Design. His interests include design theory and design methods in a systemic perspective, systems thinking, scenario planning, and research through design. His most recent publication was Mapping Design Research (Basel: Birkhäuser, 2011). Others can be found at www.thebasicparadox.de/wordpress/.
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Felicidad Romero-Tejedor
Felicidad Romero-Tejedor
Felicidad Romero-Tejedor studied design at the University of Barcelona and earned her PhD on phenomenology of digital media in 1995. She is professor for Design of Digital Media at the University of Applied Sciences in Lübeck, where she founded the Designlabor for design research specializing in “cognition design” in 2004. Since 1996, she co-publishes the design journal Öffnungszeiten: Papiere zur Designwissenschaft, and is author of several monographs. Her publications can be found at: www.fh-luebeck.de/Inhalt/09_Fachhochschule_intern/07_Services/70_Verzeichnis_der_Hochschul-angehoerigen/biografie/romero-tejedor_felicidad/index.html.
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Rosan Chow
Rosan Chow is visiting Professor of Designwissenschaft at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design. Her research and teaching focus on design theory, methodology and research. She holds a PhD on Designwissenschaft from the Braunschweig University of Art. Before arriving in Germany, she studied, practiced, and taught Visual Communication Design in Canada, Hong Kong, and United States.
Wolfgang Jonas
Wolfgang Jonas studied Naval Architecture and completed his PhD on Methodology in 1984 and his Habilitation on Design and Systems Theory in 1994. He is Professor for Designwissenschaft at Braunschweig University of Art, Institute for Transportation Design. His interests include design theory and design methods in a systemic perspective, systems thinking, scenario planning, and research through design. His most recent publication was Mapping Design Research (Basel: Birkhäuser, 2011). Others can be found at www.thebasicparadox.de/wordpress/.
Felicidad Romero-Tejedor
Felicidad Romero-Tejedor studied design at the University of Barcelona and earned her PhD on phenomenology of digital media in 1995. She is professor for Design of Digital Media at the University of Applied Sciences in Lübeck, where she founded the Designlabor for design research specializing in “cognition design” in 2004. Since 1996, she co-publishes the design journal Öffnungszeiten: Papiere zur Designwissenschaft, and is author of several monographs. Her publications can be found at: www.fh-luebeck.de/Inhalt/09_Fachhochschule_intern/07_Services/70_Verzeichnis_der_Hochschul-angehoerigen/biografie/romero-tejedor_felicidad/index.html.
Online Issn: 1531-4790
Print Issn: 0747-9360
© 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2015
Design Issues (2015) 31 (1): 3–6.
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Rosan Chow, Wolfgang Jonas, Felicidad Romero-Tejedor; Design Research in Germany?. Design Issues 2015; 31 (1): 3–6. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/DESI_e_00303
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