Else Marie Bukdahl
is the former Rector of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and she is now an Affiliated Professor at the University of Aalborg, a member of The Royal Danish and Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, and Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Her publications include Diderot, Critique d’Art, i, ii (1980–1981), The Re-enchantment of Nature and the Urban Space: Michael Singer, Art and Design (2011) and The Recurrent Actuality of the Baroque (2017).
Matthew Crippen
holds positions at Pusan National University and the Berlin School of Mind and Brain, where he focuses on history, embodied cognitive science, and cross-cultural value theory informed by one another and orbiting ecological concerns. Nominated for teaching awards, he has well over 40 publications, many in ranking journals, plus a Columbia University Press book, titled Mind Ecologies: Body, Brain, and World (2020). Outside the academy, he has worked as a musician, mandolin and guitar instructor, and gymnastics coach.
Mădălina Diaconu
is Dozentin for philosophy at the University of Vienna. She is member of the editorial boards of Contemporary Aesthetics, Studia Phaenomenologica and polylog: Zeitschrift für interkulturelles Philosophieren. She authored ten books and (co)edited eleven collective volumes on Kierkegaard, Heidegger, the phenomenology of senses and animality, the aesthetics of touch, smell and taste, urban sensescapes, and environmental philosophy.
Jessica Hemmings
is Professor of Craft at hdk-Valand, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is Visiting Professor with the Doctoral School of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest, Hungary (2021–22) and the Rita Bolland Fellow at the Research Centre for Material Culture, the Netherlands (2020–2021). Forthcoming publications include a monograph about the Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen published in Russian and English and the second edition of the Textile Reader (Bloomsbury: 2023).
Guy Julier
is Head of Research in the Department of Design at Aalto University, Finland. He is considered a founder of Design Culture Studies as a distinct academic
Steven Leuthold
is Professor of Art and Design History at Northern Michigan University. He previously taught at Syracuse University. His research and teaching interests include global issues in art history, the history of modern design, and comparative aesthetics. Leuthold is the author of Indigenous Aesthetics: Native Art, Media and Identity (1998) and Cross-cultural Issues in Art: Frames for Understanding (2010). He has contributed articles to numerous books and journals and is also a practicing artist and musician.
Tom McGuirk
is Senior Lecturer in Art Theory-Critical Theory at the University of Chester. He holds a PhD from the National University of Ireland (2003). He has lectured at The National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Nottingham Trent University and kea, Denmark. His many publications include the anthology, Artistic Research: Strategies for Embodiment (co-edited with Christine Fentz, 2015) and an essay in James Elkins’ book, What Do Artists Know? (2012).
Dina Shahar
is designer and design educator, and Professor (Senior Lecturer) and Academic Advisor at the Inclusive Design Department, Hadassah Academic College. Between the years 2010–2018 she held the position of Department Chair. Her interests span the methodologies of Inclusive Design and the evolving roles of designers in healthcare and social contexts. Alongside her academic initiatives she is involved in design projects for public spaces and urban interventions.
Richard Shusterman
is the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities at Florida Atlantic University. His Pragmatist Aesthetics (1992) is published in fifteen languages, and his other books include Body Consciousness (2008), Thinking through the Body (2012), and Ars Erotica: Sex and Somaesthetics (2021). Shusterman has received honorary doctorates from universities in Denmark and Hungary, and the French government awarded him the title of Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques for his cultural work.
is Program Leader for the ma Design at the University of Chester, teaching interdisciplinary design research, practice, and theory. He specializes in the application of augmented, virtual, and mixed realities, considering the user’s psychophysiological space and object affordances within the design process. His research practice discusses the tension when combining physical and digital narratives within objects and environments.
Dag Svanæs
is professor of human–computer interaction (hci) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (ntnu) in Trondheim, Norway. He heads the ntnu User Experience Lab and also holds a professor position at the it-University of Copenhagen in Denmark. He did his Ph.D on the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty and its relevance to interactivity and the body. His current research interests include Soma Design and the philosophical foundations of hci.
Jonathan Ventura
is a design anthropologist specializing in social and healthcare design, design research and design theory. He is the Chair of the Unit for History and Philosophy of Art, Design and Technology at Shenkar College of Engineering, Design, and Art, as well as Associate Professor of design research and theory at the Department of Inclusive Design at Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem. He is also a visiting fellow at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art in London UK.
Bálint Veres
is a tenured Associate Professor of Art and Design Philosophy at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest (mome), and holder of a prestigious state teaching award. Specializing in music, media, architecture, and design, he is the head of a PhD-in-Practice Program at mome Doctoral School and was formerly active as a music critic and curator of contemporary music festivals.