Nigel Cross
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Nigel Cross is Emeritus Professor of Design Studies. With academic and practical backgrounds in architecture and industrial design, I have been engaged in design research and design education since the nineteen-sixties. My Open University teaching was mainly on undergraduate level courses in design and technology. My research has been in computer-aided design, design methodology and design epistemology. My principal research interest is in design cognition, analysing the cognitive activities and abilities of designers, through protocol and other studies. |
Selected Publications
Cross, N Engineering Design Methods: Strategies for Product Design (fourth edition), John Wiley and Sons Ltd., Chichester, 2008
(Japanese edition by Baifukan, Tokyo, 2008)
Cross, N Designerly Ways of Knowing, Springer-Verlag Ltd., London, 2006.
Paperback edition by Birkhäuser, Basel, Switzerland, 2007.
Cross, N. Christiaans, H and Dorst, K (eds.) Analysing Design Activity, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester, 1996.
Cross, N. 'Expertise in Design: an overview', Design Studies, Vol. 25, No.
5, pp. 427-441, 2004.
Cross, N. 'Can a Machine Design?', Design Issues, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp.
44-50, 2001.
Cross, N. 'Natural Intelligence in Design', Design Studies, Vol. 20, No.
1, pp. 25-39, 1999.
Cross, N. 'Creativity in Design: analyzing and modeling the creative leap', Leonardo, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 311-317, 1997.
Current Projects
Understanding how designers think and work.
Writing books and papers on the nature of ability and expertise in design.
Interviews
'Design Thinking' Rotman Magazine, Winter 2009. pdf
'Rock Star of Design Research' Ambidextrous, No. 9, 2008. pdf print version; full interview at webpage
CV synopsis
B.Sc. Architecture (University of Bath).
M.Sc. Industrial Design Technology (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology - UMIST).
Ph.D. Computer Aided Design (UMIST).
Honours and Awards:
Lifetime Achievement Award, Design Research Society, 2005
Elected first President of the International Association of Societies of Design Research, 2005
Elected President of the Design Research Society, 2006
Elected Honorary Fellow, The Design Society, 2007
Keynote conference speeches:
Artificial Intelligence in Design conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 1998
International Congress of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) and the Asian Design Conference, Seoul, Korea, 2001
ACM International Conference on Creativity and Cognition, Loughborough, UK, 2002
IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering, Kyoto, Japan, 2004
Congress of the International Association of Societies of Design Research, Douliou, Taiwan, 2005
International Symposium of the Swiss Design Network, Geneva, Switzerland, 2006
NSF Science of Design Symposium,
Arcata, California, USA, 2007
DesignTrain International Congress, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2007
International Conference on Engineering Education, Coimbra, Portugal, 2007
Affiliations:
Editor-in-Chief, journal of Design Studies.
Member of the Peer Review College, Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Lead/rhythm guitarist in Wimpey Three.
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