To facilitate this critique and to provide a range of perspectives in terms of design phd models and contexts, pedagogy and learning, from experience and in proposition, the following people have been invited to speak at this event.

Confirmed Invited Participants
Anne Burdick, Department Chair of Graduate Media Design at Art Center College of Design, USA

Hugh Dubberly, Design Strategist, USA

Pia Ednie-Brown, Associate Professor Architecture & Design, Director Higher Degrees School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University, Australia

Pelle Ehn, Professor of Interaction Design, Malmö University, Sweden

James Elkins, Chair of the Dept of Art History, Theory and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA

Lisa Grocott, Associate Professor, School of Media, Art and Technology, Parsons The New School of Design

Maria Hellstrom, Professor of Design, Malmö University, Sweden

Lucy Kimbell, Assoc. Fellow Said Business School, Oxford, Design Researcher & PhD Candidate, Lancaster University, UK

Andrew Morrison, Professor of Interdisciplinary Design, Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway

Teal Triggs, Professor of Graphic Design, Assoc. Dean, Royal College of Art, UK