Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa | Napoli | Italy
Francesca Nicolais
Ph.D in Communication Sciences, Francesca is a fellow at “ScienzaNuova Research Center” at the University of Suor Orsola Benincasa in Napoli, where she developes a research project on packaging and communication and on the powerful relation between Humanities and Technologies. She is a project coordinator and cross media expert for Pej’s kitchen, a multimedia production company and is co-founder of Riot studio (www.riotstudio.it), a venue devoted to creativity, research and innovation that highlights artists and movements that drive languages that are elusive in pre-established categories embracing multiple areas of knowledge. She loves to be: co-organizer of the TEDxNapoli since 2012, content curator of the format Who is the designer, co-inventor of a European patent on the preparation of fluorescent nanoparticles that can be used to create anti-counterfeiting markups for high value added goods. “Cross fertilization and knowledge integration are the keywords that drive my research projects”
Alfredo Apicella
alfredo.apicella@docenti.unisob.na.it
Graduated in Computer Engineering, Alfredo works in “Scienza Nuova Research Center” at University of Suor Orsola Benincasa in Naples, developing projects to support Humanities by means of coding and technology and exploring the many possibilities of AR/VR technologies, developing Virtual Museums, prototyping applications and studying the design of interaction between man and devices.
Middle East Technical University | Ankara | Turkey
Dalsu Özgen Koçyıldırım
Dalsu received her BFA in Graphic Design from Bilkent University, her MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design, and her Doctorate in Graphic Design from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. After working as an animator, designer and illustrator in various projects, she became a lecturer in METU Department of Industrial Design. She’s been teaching for over ten years primarily on design foundation (1st year studio), visual communication and narrative in design. Her research interests include the use of visual narratives in the design process and the development of learning methods for basic design education.
Ayşe Kaplan
I graduated from the Middle East Technical University (METU) Department of Business Administration and started my graduate education in the same university in the Industrial Design Department. I also continue to work as a research assistant in this department. My academic interests are sustainable consumption, design for sustainability and social design.
TU Dublin | Ireland
Aija Freimane
Dr Aija Freimane as a full-time academic faculty member of TU Dublin School of Art and Design lectures on arts, design and creative industries subjects, such as design and artistic research methods, strategic, quality and project management, value of design and supervise undergraduate and postgraduate thesis development. From 2008 till 2021 Aija Freimane was an Associate Professor of Design Faculty, Art Academy of Latvia and lectured on several subjects within the arts and creative industries including design and project management. She supervised design Bachelor, Master, and Doctoral theses and projects. Aija Freimane developed research-based design practice in Latvia. She holds the first PhD in design’s context and conducted the only postdoctoral research in design, funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) there being a visiting postdoc at TU Dublin.
Aija Freimane practises and advises on diverse human-centred design research, design and creative thinking methods in process, strategy and new products, together with service development. Her research interests are linked with value of design from the user perspective, design for sustainable social well-being, social capital, happiness, and human behaviour studies (design anthropology and sociology). Aija Freimane as a side result of her PhD developed and published “Design Footprints” (Dizaina pēdas in Latvian), an interactive timeline and map of design, socio-economic, political, technological and sustainability facts from 1588–2015, and “Perceived Design Value. The socioeconomic impact of design” as a result of her postdoctoral study in 2020 where the triple design process and design maturity matrix are proposed to witness design’s added value in a framework of redefined design definition. Aija advocates design as a method of creating happy and satisfied societies. The study in 2021 was awarded prestigious A’ Design Award in the category Meta, Service and Strategic Design Section.
Shandong University of Art & Design | Shandong | China
Yufeng Lin
Lin Yufeng, Director of Art Museum of Shandong University of Art and design, Associate Professor, Graduate Tutor, Director of Product Design Studio in SUAD, Visiting Scholar of University of Florence, Director of Design Education Branch of China Industrial Design Association, Secretary General of Science and Art Creation Committee of Shandong Science Creation Association, Director of Jinan Industrial Design Society, Outstanding Graduate Tutor of Shandong Province.
He has been engaged in product design teaching for many years, presided over and participated in a number of national social science funds, provincial education reform, postgraduate high-quality courses and teaching case library construction, etc.; edited and published many books such as “Product Stylized Design”. “Thousand Peaks Green” was selected as the porcelain for the State Banquet of the 2018 SCO Qingdao Summit. “Connecting with each other” was selected as the national gift of the 2018 SCO Qingdao Summit. In cooperation with enterprises, he has presided over the design work of many practical projects. Many of the designed works have been affirmed by enterprises and the market in many aspects, and many patents have been applied for and mass-produced.
Caoying TANG
Chaoying Tang graduated from Donghua University with Master of Arts and Design. she is a professor in Shandong University of Art and Design, teaching in product and industrial design, such as ” Product Design “, ” Design Procedures and Methods “, ” Design Drawing “, ” Product Innovation Design “, ” Information Product Design “. She has been teaching for 16 years and has extensive teaching experience. During this period, she focused on the research of training mode of design talents, exploring for design thinking and methods, and also exploring of design teaching methods.
Jingying Zhen
Jingying Zhen, Digital Artist from China, teach in Shandong University of Art and Design.
My art explores and depicts details of life forms, a unique perspective, based on my love of the unknown, a dream I have followed since childhood, capturing and conveying emotions through visual expression. My work has its foundations in Asian culture, intermingled with a multicultural background; an implosion of color, thought and description.
My first major work in America, “Calligraphy Illustrations” was accepted for exhibition at the 2019 Digital Art Gallery, International Conference, San Francisco and 2019 16th International Conference Computer Graphics, ‘Imaging and Visualization’, Australia. “Personality” won third prize at the 2019 China Competition of Creative Packaging Design. In 2019 I was voted ‘Newly Recognized Artist’ at the 19th Dashi Awards in China, for my work entitled “JiuJiang Package”. It is most gratifying to have been acknowledged on two continents.
Rui Guo
Coordinator, International Office, Shandong University of Art and Design
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University of Navarra
Adrian Larripa
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Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
Aleksandr Gusakov
I am an Associate Professor of the Department of Management, Faculty of Economics, RUDN University (Peoples Friendship University of Russia), Moscow, Russia. I have degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences (PhD). Conducting classes in various disciplines related to management, I am looking for such formats of classes that form students’ own practical skills – working with ERP systems, with programs for simulation, business games. Since the skills of creative thinking are very important now in various fields of activity, I actively uses Design Thinking both for student projects and for vocational training. I organized several international projects, including the project to develop the innovative potential of UiT (Norway) and NArFU (Russia) using the DT approach. I have spent more than 20 years implementing IT in various organizations, and I have also been a Manager in the field of Economics in the municipality and industry.
Tatiana Semichevskaya
B.S. and M.S. degree in Agriculture, professional interpreter, graduated Interior Designer and currently finishing my PhD on History of Russian Revival architecture of 19-early 20th centuries. Senior lecturer for Environmental Design students at the Department of Architecture of the Engineering Academy of PFUR (Moscow, Russia). Practicing watercolor artist, former member of Russia Designers Association and Salem Art Association (Salem,MA). Active participant of art events and exhibitions. Worked with numerous art materials and techniques such as handprint, linocut, textile ecodye, batik, ceramics, lampwork and glass blowing (Glass Academy, Moscow), Tiffany glass and fusing, mosaics (a course led by Maria Teressa Vaccini from Ravenna mosaic art school, Italy) etc.
Erik Bohemia
erik.bohemia@imaginationstudios.info
As a researcher and an educator in the field of design I am interested in the skills and competencies of designers and the match between these and industry requirements. My current research explores changes associated with Globalisation and the impact of these changes on Design. This research has been used to develop the Global Studio https://theglobalstudio.eu/2022/ The aims of the Global Studio are linked with current and future industry needs associated with contemporary changes in the development of products and including the shift to the use of distributed teams in the product development process. During the past five years, I successfully led to completion eight international collaborative research projects involving high profile overseas university and multinational industry partners in collaborative research, teaching and learning activities. Participating institutions based in the USA, Canada, France, Taiwan, Japan, Netherlands, Australia and Korea.