1. Ozge Merzali Celikoglu is a researcher in the Department of Industrial Product Design, Istanbul Technical University (ITU), where she received her MSc and PhD degrees. During her doctoral research, she conducted her studies as a visiting scholar at The Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Her research is primarily concerned with how ethnography informs design—exploring the intersections of user-centered design, material culture, and symbolic interactionism in particular.
2. Sebnem Timur Ogut graduated from the Department of Industrial Design at METU in 1994 and received her MFA and PhD degrees from Bilkent University, Department of Graphic Design. She conducted a post-doctoral study as an honorary research fellow at University College London in the Department of Anthropology, Material Culture. She currently teaches at Istanbul Technical University, Department of Industrial Design. Her research interests mainly concentrate on design and particularly objects as cultural...
3. Klaus Krippendorff is a graduate from the Ulm School of Design and is the Gregory Bateson Professor Emeritus for Cybernetics, Language, and Culture at The Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Over a hundred of his publications contributed to communication theory, cybernetics, social science methodology, and design. He is the author of several books, among them Content Analysis: An Introduction to its Methodology; On Communicating, Otherness, Meaning, and Information; and The...