Richard Buchanan, professor of design and director of doctoral studies, within Carnegie Mellon’s School of Design, will provide the final keynote.

He teaches design theory in the traditional areas of communication design and industrial design, but also extends design thinking into new areas of application such as interaction design and organization design.

Among his numerous publications are Discovering Design: Explorations in Design Studies, The Idea of Design, and Pluralism in Theory and Practice.

He is an editor of Design Issues, an international journal of design history, theory, and criticism published by the M.I.T. Press. He is also President of the Design Research Society, an international learned society based in the United Kingdom.