Conference Organizers

Conference Chairs

Paolo Ciuccarelli, Center for Design, Northeastern University, Boston

Paul Hekkert, TU Delft, NL

Program Chair

Colin M. Gray, Indiana University Bloomington

Content Committee Leads 

Paolo Ciuccarelli, Center for Design, Northeastern University, Boston (Committee Chair)

Estefania Ciliotta Chehade, Center for Design, Northeastern University, Boston

Colin M. Gray, Indiana University Bloomington

Strategy Committee Leads

Annabelle Tocco, Northeastern University, Boston

Strategy Committee

Paolo Ciuccarelli, Center for Design, Northeastern University, Boston (Committee Co-Chair)

Paul Hekkert, TU Delft, NL (Committee Co-Chair)

Estefania Ciliotta Chehade, Center for Design, Northeastern University, Boston

Julie Farkas, Center for Design, Northeastern University, Boston

Colin M. Gray, Indiana University Bloomington

Aashita Jain, Center for Design, Northeastern University, Boston

Viviane K. Kim, Northeastern University, Boston

Kristian Kloeckl, Center for Design, Northeastern University, Boston

Sara Lenzi, University of Deusto, ES

Peter Lloyd, TU Delft, NL

Michael Arnold Mages, Center for Design, Northeastern University, Boston

Keynote Event Committee

Paolo Ciuccarelli, Center for Design, Northeastern University, Boston (Committee Chair)

Laura Forlano, Center for Design, Northeastern University, Boston

Viviane K. Kim, Northeastern University, Boston

Kristian Kloeckl, Center for Design, Northeastern University, Boston

Michael Arnold Mages, Center for Design, Northeastern University, Boston

Paper Committee

Colin M. Gray, Indiana University Bloomington (Committee Chair)

Miso Kim, Center for Design, Northeastern University, Boston

Michael Arnold Mages, Center for Design, Northeastern University, Boston

Conversations Committee

Sofía Bosch Gómez, Northeastern University, Boston

Kees Dorst, University of Technology Sydney, AU

Miso Kim, Center for Design, Northeastern University, Boston

Frederick Van Amstel, University of Florida

Federico Vaz, Royal College of Art, UK

Workshops Committee

Sara Carr, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Northeastern University, Boston

Estefania Ciliotta Chehade, Center for Design, Northeastern University, Boston

Catalina Cortes Loyola, Universidad del Desarrollo (UDD), Chile

Miso Kim, Center for Design, Northeastern University, Boston

Alejandra Poblete Perez, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Chile

Labs Committee

Estefania Ciliotta Chehade, Center for Design, Northeastern University, Boston (Committee Co-Chair)

Sara Lenzi, University of Deusto, ES (Committee Co-Chair)

Mark Araujo, The Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics (MONUM), Boston

Arlene Oak, University of Alberta, Canada

PhD Event Committee

Ryan Bruggeman, Center for Design, Northeastern University, Boston

Laura Forlano, Center for Design, Northeastern University, Boston

Luis Garcia, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh

Sofía Bosch Gómez, Northeastern University, Boston

Alayt Issak, Northeastern University, Boston

Michael Arnold Mages, Center for Design, Northeastern University, Boston

Jules Rochielle Sievert, Northeastern University Boston

Performance & Exhibition Committee

Kristian Kloeckl, Center for Design, Northeastern University, Boston

Laura Forlano, Center for Design, Northeastern University, Boston

DRS Fringe Committee

Paolo Ciuccarelli, Center for Design, Northeastern University, Boston

Sofie Hodara, Northeastern University, Boston

Kristian Kloeckl, Center for Design, Northeastern University, Boston

Ann McDonald, Northeastern University, Boston

Anna Nasi, Northeastern University, Boston

Bonnie Parrott, Northeastern University, Boston

Annabelle Tocco, Northeastern University, Boston

Partners

Mark Araujo, The Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics (MONUM), Boston

Roi Salgueiro Barrio, Morningside Academy for Design, MIT, Cambridge

Indigo Casais, Museum of Fine Art, Boston

Elizabeth Christoforetti, Graduate School of Design, Harvard, Cambridge

Marion Cunningham, Morningside Academy for Design, MIT, Cambridge

Michelle Fisher, Museum of Fine Art, Boston

Liana Mestas, Design Museum Foundation, Boston

John A. Ochsendorf,  Morningside Academy for Design, MIT, Cambridge

J. R. Uretsky, Design Museum Foundation, Boston

Maria Villafranca, Design Museum Foundation, Boston

Andrew Witt, Graduate School of Design, Harvard, Cambridge

DRS International Advisory Council 

Anna Vallgårda (Chair)

Kristina Andersen

Stella Boess

Rebecca Cain

Lin-Lin Chen

Paulina Contreras Correa

Catalina Cortés Loyola

Hua Dong

Kees Dorst

Martyn Evans

Jodi Forlizzi

Tincuta Heinzel

Sampsa Hyysalo

Sabine Junginger

Cecilia Landa-Avila

Sara Lenzi

Dan Lockton

Juan Giusepe Montalvan

Tek-Jin Nam

Arlene Oak

Alejandra Poblete Perez

Johan Redström

Heather Wiltse

Toshimasa Yamanaka