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For the 2010 Design Conference at Chicago’s UIC Forum, Richard Buchanan, Dennis Doordan and Victor Margolin will come together for a joint Plenary Session.

Richard Buchanan, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA
Richard Buchanan is Professor of Design, Management and Information Systems at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. Before joining the Weatherhead faculty in 2008, he was Professor of Design at Carnegie Mellon University and directed the School of Design. He has taught in the traditional areas of Graphic and Industrial Design as well as the emerging area of Interaction Design. As a writer and theorist, he is well known for extending design thinking into new areas of research and application, including management, organization design, and systems environments.

Dennis Doordan, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA
Dennis Doordan is a design educator, historian, critic, museum consultant and co- editor of Design Issues a journal devoted to the history, theory, and criticism of design and recognized as one of the leading academic journals devoted to design studies. He has a Ph.D. from Columbia University (1983). He holds a joint appointment in the School of Architecture and the Department of Art, Art History and Design at the University of Notre Dame.

Victor Margolin, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
Victor Margolin is Professor Emeritus of Design History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is a founding editor and now co-editor of the academic design journal Design Issues. Professor Margolin has published widely on diverse design topics and lectured at conferences, universities, and art schools in many parts of the world.

Join us for a 90-minute, professionally guided tour of The Merchandise Mart, the world’s largest commercial building. Encompassing 4.2 million gross square feet, The Mart spans two city blocks and rises 25 stories. The tour includes a historical overview of the building, covering its creation by retailer Marshall Field & Co. in 1930 and the purchase by Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy in 1945. Highlights of the tour include a viewing of the showroom floors that represent contract, residential, decorative accessories and gifts.

For more information please see the Conference website.

Sol Sende, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
www.Design-Conference.com

Sol Sender led the creative development of the Obama ’08 campaign logo. He is a Strategist at VSA Partners , is the owner of Sender LLC, and is an adjunct faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He received his BA from Bowdoin College, and his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Bill Lucas
Bill Lucas investigates, informs, and advances the practice of experience design at MAYA Design (Pittsburgh, USA), building on a foundation in holistic, human-centered design.

He has designed experiential systems for a wide range of companies and government institutions, including Corning, General Electric, Merrill Lynch, Whirlpool, the United States Postal Service, and DARPA. He has designed corporate identity standards, trade show exhibits, signage systems, and graphical user interfaces for Web sites, software applications, and physical devices.

After serving as Director of MAYA’s Visual Design Group from 1996-2001, Bill became the inaugural member of MAYA’s Professional Practice Fellowship Program. More…