holds a PhD in Design Sciences from the University
IUAV of Venice, Italy, and a Master of Design from the University of
Alberta, Canada. She has worked on the design of materials for people with
severe speech and reading impairments, interacting with neurologists,
educational psychologists, and speech therapists, emphasizing the

importance of user-centered design and design for users with special needs.

Since 2003 her practice focuses on health related design issues. She is now
an Adjunct Researcher at the Health Design Lab at Emily Carr University,
Vancouver, Canada.

isa third year Interaction Design student at Emily

Carr University. She has a passion for 1x/UX and a strong interest in
understanding the behaviours and needs of people. She believes that design
can induce delight through the careful orchestration of systems, gestures,
and feedback.

joined the Design Department at The Ohio State University
as an Associate Professor in 2011 after having worked as a design research
consultant in industry since 1981. She has practiced participatory design
research within and between all the design disciplines. Her research
today focuses on generative design research, collective creativity and
transdisciplinarity. Liz is also the founder of MakeTools where she works
at the front end of the changes taking place today in design. Her goal is

to bring participatory, human-centered design thinking and co-creation
practices to the challenges we face for the future. Liz has a PhD in
Experimental and Quantitative Psychology and a BA in both Psychology
and Anthropology.

oo earned a BAA from Ryerson University and an
MA from Royal Roads University. As an Associate Professor she teaches
design research and methods at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Deborah’s research interests include practice-based research and learning
theory for human-centred designing which she brings to projects for
Emily Carr’s Health Design Lab. She is one of the founding editors of the
award-winning Current, the university’s design research journal, and is
the Founding Chair of the Ecu Research Ethics Board. In 2010, she was
awarded the Ian Wallace Teaching Award.

55565 5 = is the Director of Design Studies at the School
of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. He also directs the School of
Design’s Doctoral research program. Cameron has a background in

philosophy and continues to research what designers and practice-based
design researchers can learn from philosophies of making, material
culture studies and sociologies of technology. His primary area of research
is sustainable design. In particular, he focuses on the design of systems
that lower societal materials intensity, primarily by decoupling use and
ownership - in other words, systems of shared use.

ig a third-year Industrial Design student at Emily Carr
University. With a strong passion in product development, he hopes to
explore its great potential to inspire behavior change in order to generate a
healthier social and environmental lifestyle.

is the Dean of Design + Dynamic Media at Emily
Carr. She began her career as a communication designer in Vancouver

in 1993. Her most notable work can be found in the philatelic section of
Canada’s National Archives, including her 1999 stamp design recognizing
the formation of the Nunavut territory, along with five other stamp designs.
She has worked with some of the largest arts groups in Vancouver including
Vancouver Opera, Vancouver Recital Society, and Vancouver International
Jazz Festival. Areas of learning and teaching include typography, design
and material culture, consumerism, and the visual vernacular.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Current is the product of many conversations, meetings, hours

of writing, editing, and many reviews. We could not have realized
this project without the support of Dr. Ron Burnett, Dr. Maria
Lantin, Jonathan Aitken and Kate Armstrong of the Research Of-
fice; Bonne Zabolotney, Dean of the Faculty of Design and Dynam-
ic Media; Grant Gregson, coordinator of the Teaching & Learning
Center; Roxanne Toronto and Cari Bird of Communications; and
Tara Wren, copy editor.

The Current team would like to thank the students in SOCS 309
FOO1 and FOOQ2 Design Research & Methods for their contribu-
tions to issue 06. Current is grateful for the support of the Emily
Carr President’s Research Fund, the Faculty of Design + Dynamic
Media through the office of the dean, and our advertisers.

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