Social Design: An Introduction
Dung-Sheng Chen
Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Dung-sheng Chen is a distinguished professor in the Department of Sociology at National Taiwan University. His research interests span from social design, social studies of science and technology, and economic sociology to urban sociology. Prof. Chen coordinates the Humanity Innovation and Social Practice Project for the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan.
Lu-Lin Cheng
Department of Industrial Design, Shih Chien University, Taiwan
Taiwan
Lu-Lin Cheng is an associate professor in the Department of Industrial Design at Shih-Chien University (SCID). He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Duke University and worked for the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, for 18 years before moving to his current position. His research interests are design research, design history, social design, economic sociology, and sociology of design.
Caroline Hummels
Department of Industrial Design, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Netherlands
Caroline Hummels is full professor at the Department of Industrial Design at the Eindhoven University of Technology, where she heads the Designing Quality in Interaction group and leads the TU/e interdepartmental focus area Participatory Health and Wellbeing. Her main design and research activities concentrate on designing transformative qualities in embodied interaction, and frameworks, tools and processes to support designing towards transformation.
Ilpo Koskinen
School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Finland
Ilpo Koskinen is currently a professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His main research interest has been methodology, but his work has also covered multimedia and the cityscape. He was initially trained in sociology.