Leyla Belkaïd Neri
Leyla Belkaïd Neri, Dr. Prof., is Director of Fashion Design Department and Assistant Professor of anthropology and design practice at Parsons Paris, the European campus of Parsons School of Design – The New School, New York. She holds a Master in fashion design and received her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of Lyon. She served as Head of Industrial Design Department and Director of Fashion Design for the Geneva School of Art and Design, and later as the founding Director of the Master in Luxury Management for the Geneva School of Business Administration. Her research work includes the project that led in 2012 to the registration of the Rites and craftsmanship associated with the costume tradition of Tlemcen on the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Most recent scientific articles
to be published in forthcoming books in 2017-2018
- “The Transmediterranean Routes of Fashion: Between Material Expression and Artistic Representation”, in L. Clich and T. Zanardi (eds.), Visual Typologies from the Early Modern to the Contemporary: Local Contexts and Global Practices, London: Routledge.
- “Sensorial Cosmologies: Fashion Design and the Embodied Practices of the Wearer”, in H. Jenss and V. Hofmann (eds.), Fashion and Materiality: Cultural Practices in Global Contexts, London: Bloomsbury.
- “The Design of Pictorial Ontologies: From Unstitched Imaginaries to Stitched Images”, in T. Fillitz and P. van der Grijp (eds.), An Anthropology of Contemporary Art: Practices, Markets, and Collectors, London: Bloomsbury.
- “Entangled Styles: On Migrations, Trade and Dress in the Mediterranean”, in E. Fraser (ed.),
The Art of Travel: People and Things in Motion in the Early Modern Mediterranean, London: Routledge.
Conference Contribution
Colloquium: Interstitial maps for design pedagogy: Connective materialities in the making
Himadri Hiren Ghosh (Banasthali, India)
Himadri Hiren Ghosh, Prof. Dr., is Director of the Banasthali Instiute of Design, which combines traditional heritage with present day needs of design education. He holds an awarded Phd from the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Textile Technology, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda; a Post Graduate Diploma in Textile Design, National Institute of Design; a B.A. in Fine Arts, and graduated a B. Tex Course and M. Tex Course at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, too. He has decades of experience as teacher as well as practicioner, inter alia, in Craft Design and Design Technology; woven-knits and non-woven, including structural design, planning and quality control; all kinds of printing technology. He is associated with numerous organizations worldwide.
http://www.banasthali.org/banasthali/wcms/en/home/
Publications under
www.researchgate.net/profile/Himadri_Ghosh2/publications?pubType=inProceedings
Conference Contribution
Atelier: Stories of Kantha
Colloquium: Educating awareness of Indian Lifestyle impact over Craft Traditions
Richie Moalosi (Gaborone, Botswana)
Richie Moalosi, Prof. Dr., is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Industrial Design and Technology at the University of Botswana in Gaborone. He holds a PhD in Industrial Design (Queensland University of Technology), MA Design (University of Wolverhampton), BEd Design and Technology (University of Botswana). His specialisation and research interest areas include the following: Culture and design, Design education, Sustainable design and innovation. His main interest is to develop a design niche for Botswana’s products which have local meaning and a global appeal. He has also published extensively in international peer-reviewed journals and presented at many international conferences.
http://www.ub.bw/home/ac/1/fac/2/dep/65/Industrial-Design-&-Technology/
www.researchgate.net/profile/Richie_Moalosi
Recent scientific articles
- Moalosi, R., Uziak, J. & Oladiran, M. T. (2016). Using blended learning approach to deliver courses in an engineering programme. International Journal of Quality Assurance in Engineering and Technology Education, 5(1), 23-39, ISSN: 2155-496X, USA.
- Dichabeng, P. & Moalosi, R. (2016). Acquisition of graduate attributes through the Service Learning Pedagogy: The Case of the University of Botswana. Global Journal of Engineering Education, 18 (2), 136-141, ABN: 50 135 362 319, Australia.
- Moalosi, R., Setlhatlhanyo, K. N. & Sealetsa, O. J. (2016). Cultural Memory, an Asset for Design-driven Innovation within the Creative Industries Sector: Lessons for Design Education. Design and Technology Education: An International Journal, 21(2), 9-22, ISSN 1360-1431, UK.
- Moalosi, R., Sealetsa, O. J., Molwane, O. B., Letsholo, P., Molokwane, S., Mwendapole, C. & Letsatsi, M. T. (2016). Assessment of Design-driven Innovation within Botswana’s Small Creative Industries. International Journal of Cultural and Creative Industries, 3(2), 38-51, ISSN: 2309-6640, Taiwan.
- Rapitsenyane, Y., Moalosi, R. & Letsholo, P. (2016). Transforming Mind-sets of Product Design Students Towards Sustainable Product Service Systems: The Case of the University Of Botswana. Proceedings of the Learning Network on Sustainable Energy Systems (LeNSes) Conference, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa, 28-30 September, 2016, 177-187.
Conference Contribution
Atelier: Design Innovation and Cultural Heritage
Colloquium: Ubuntu co-creation process: Indigenising the design process
Carlos Montana-Hoyos
Carlos Alberto Montana-Hoyos, Assoc. Prof. Dr., is an Associate Professor of Industrial Design (ID) in the University of Canberra since 2010. He has developed award-winning, multidisciplinary design projects while living in Colombia, Italy, Japan, Singapore and Australia. As an academic, Carlos was Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Product Design Engineering course of EAFIT University in Colombia (2001-2003). He was also a Fellow and Assistant Professor in the ID Program of the National University of Singapore (2006-2010). His research interests are on multidisciplinary and cross-cultural approaches to design, and include topics as Design for Health and Sports, Biomimicry and Design for Sustainability.
Conference Contribution
Colloquium: Cross-Culturality, Multidisciplinarity and Globalisation in Design Education
Gilbert Riedelbauch (Canberra, Australia)
Gilbert Riedelbauch is a contemporary designer/maker who works with a variety of materials and processes. As a silversmith his background is in traditional metal working techniques, a practice to which he has added digital technologies. His particularly interest is in the integration of digital fabrication processes together with traditional making. His studio is based in Canberra, Australia, from where he exhibits nationally and internationally. His works include public art, sculptural-objects based on mathematical equations, Light objects using LEDs and since recently folded forms made from composite aluminium. After finishing his studies as a Meisterschüler in silversmithing at the Academy of Fine Art Nuernberg, Germany, he completed a Graduate Diploma at The Australian National University, School of Art, where currently undertakes his PhD candidature. As a senior lecturer, he convenes the Graduate Coursework program for Visual- and Digital art and also leads the School’s Foundation Studies Program.
In 2007 Riedelbauch received a national teaching award – a Carrick citation – for his contribution to university teaching and in 2014 he become a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy UK. In 2016 Riedelbauch received a Distinguished Teaching Award from the Australian Council of Art & Design Schools and a teaching award for a ‘Program that enhances student learning’ from the ANU’s College of Art and Social Sciences.
Conference Contribution
Atelier: Camouflage and Object Recognition: Points of View Challenged
Colloquium: Cultural Spaces: A Point of View from Canberra, Australia
Eric Simon
Eric Simon, Assoc. Prof., is a multidisciplinary artist. His work revolves mainly around painting and drawing. Simon has shown his work in Canada and abroad in such venues as Musée de Joliette, Galerie Graff, Galerie Donald Browne in Montreal, Artmandat in France as well as a series of hit-and-run exhibitions in offbeat Montreal storefronts, offering visitors installations that managed to balance his affection for both Art Brut and realism. Simon is a founding member of Drawing Lab Dessin as well as a member of the inter-university research/creation group Stratégies artistiques de spatialisation du savoir initiated and directed by Suzanne Leblanc (Université Laval). He has published five books of fiction and poetry. He has received numerous grants and awards.
Most recent work
La vie sécrète la vie secrète, Donald Browne Gallery, Montreal, 2015
Recent publications
Les mille et une phrases, Contre-mur, Marseille, 2016
Sur les traces de l’avenir, L’Oie de Cravan, Montreal, 2015
Maurice Montagne/Entretien, Drawing Lab Dessin, Montreal, 2014
Conference Contribution
Colloquium: Eau! Wasser! Acqua! Water! Agua!
Tatiana Tavares
Tatiana Tavares MA, originally from Brazil and living in New Zealand, has won numerous awards for her illustration and design across Brazil, Australia, New Zealand and the US. Coming from a ten-year career in advertising and graphic design, Tatiana received her MA in Art and Design in 2011 from Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. She is now completing a practice-led PhD at AUT University, where she also lectures in illustration, narrative studies and branding. She is a multidisciplinary artist with particular approach to design that crosses diverse disciplines, processes, and materials. Her interests lie in self-narrative inquiry and forms of autoethnography, South American mysticism and folklore, magic realism, polyvocal narrative and cross-cultural studies.
Conference Contribution
Colloquium: Ko Wai Ko Au Ko Au Ko Wai – I am Water, Water is Me
Jilly Traganou
Jilly Traganou is Associate Professor of Spatial Design Studies at Parsons School of Design. Her early work looked at the relations between spatial practice, travel and identity, while her recent scholarship focused on the role of design in the production and contestation of the Olympic Games. Her current research examines how design evokes dissent with a focus on prefigurative politics. Jilly has been the recipient of the 2016 Design Incubator Scholarship Award for her work on the Olympic Design milieu, which included both writings and film. She has been a Fulbright scholar in Brazil, Research Fellow at the Bard Graduate Center, Visiting Fellow in the Program in Hellenic Studies at Princeton University, and fellow of The Japan Foundation, as well as recipient of grants by Design History Society, The Japan Foundation, and Graham Foundation.
Selected Publications
Books
- Designing the Olympics: Representation, Participation, Contestation, Routledge, London, 2016
- J. Traganou, M. Mitrasinovic (eds.), Travel, Space, Architecture, Ashgate, Aldershot,
2009 (edited volume) - The Tôkaidô Road: Traveling and Representation in Edo and Meiji Japan, RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2004 (monograph)
Editor of Special Issues in Peer Review Journals
- Design and Society in Japan (tentative titled), co-edited with Sarah Teasley, Review of Japanese Culture and Society, Josai University, Tokyo, 2016
- Visual Communication Design in the Balkans, co-edited with Artemis Yagou, The Design Journal, 18:4, 2015
- Special Issue, Design Histories of the Olympic Games, Journal of Design History, 25:3, 2012
Conference Contribution
Colloquium: Cultured Spaces: from Travel to Stasis