Harold G. Nelson, April-June 2012
Professor Harold G. Nelson is
visiting professor at UID between April and June 2012. Nelson is
trained as an architect, with a PhD in social systems design at
Berkley under the supervision of the
famous C. West Churchman. Nelson is one of the most
internationally recognized thinkers and scholars today when it
comes to design practice and research. He has published many
articles and the seminal book "The
Design Way-intentional change in an unpredictable world" which
will be out in a second edition this coming summer with MIT Press.
Nelson is one of the co-founding Directors and President of the Advanced Design Institute and is a
past-president and a trustee of the International Society
for Systems Science. He is a part time Senior Lecturer in the
Graduate School of Business and Public Policy
at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. In
2009-2010 he was the Nierenberg Distinguished Professor of Design,
School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University. Furthermore, Nelson
was for ten years the Director of a highly successful MS program in
Whole Systems Design at Antioch University,
Seattle.
Thomas Dickson, Oct-Nov 2010
Thomas Dickson,
industrial designer, architect MDD and journalist, was visiting
professor at UID during October and November 2010. He is, and has
been a practicing designer for many years while also being a
prolific writer. In 2002 he participated in founding a research
department in futurology, Vision Lab, for Lego. Today, while
running his own consultancy Dickson Design, he is also an associate
professor at the Centre for Design Research at the Aarhus
School of Architecture and also one of the leading Scandinavian
design historians and published Dansk Design in 2008, later also in English as
Danish Design.
