George Richard Buchanan is a professor of design, management, and information systems. Currently he teaches at the
Weatherhead School of Management
The Weatherhead School of Management is a private business school of Case Western Reserve University located in Cleveland, Ohio. Weatherhead offers programs concentrated in sustainability, design innovation, healthcare, organizational behavior, g ...
at Case Western Reserve University. Previously he was the head of the
Carnegie Mellon School of Design
The School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University is a degree-granting institution within a private university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The School of Design is one of five schools within the Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Ar ...
. He serves as an editor of ''
Design Issues'' and is a past President of the
Design Research Society
The Design Research Society (DRS), founded in the United Kingdom in 1966,Tovey, M. (2011). Researching Design Education. In E. Bohemia, B. Borja de Mozota & L. Collina (Eds.)Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium for Design Education Resea ...
.
Buchanan is one of the first people to talk about "Fourth Order of Design"
as described in his paper "Design Research and the New Learning" (2001) and he is known for extending the application of design into new areas of theory and practice, writing, and teaching as well as practicing the concepts and methods of interaction design.
In 2009, Buchanan received an honorary doctorate from the Faculté de l’aménagement (Environmental Design Faculty) at the University of Montréal.
He is an editor of the following books:
*Buchanan, Richard, and
Victor Margolin
Victor Margolin (1941–2019) was an American design historian, researcher and educator. He was a Professor of design history at the University of Illinois, Chicago, where he taught from 1982 until 2006. Margolin published widely and was the foundi ...
. ''Discovering Design: Explorations in Design Studies.'' Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
*Buchanan, Richard, Dennis P. Doordan, and
Victor Margolin
Victor Margolin (1941–2019) was an American design historian, researcher and educator. He was a Professor of design history at the University of Illinois, Chicago, where he taught from 1982 until 2006. Margolin published widely and was the foundi ...
. ''The Designed World: Images, Objects, Environments.'' Oxford: Berg, 2010.
*Buchanan, Richard, and
Victor Margolin
Victor Margolin (1941–2019) was an American design historian, researcher and educator. He was a Professor of design history at the University of Illinois, Chicago, where he taught from 1982 until 2006. Margolin published widely and was the foundi ...
. ''The Idea of Design: A Design Issues Reader.'' Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, 1995
He has published several articles on design theory and research, particularly on
Interaction design
Interaction design, often abbreviated as IxD, is "the practice of designing interactive digital products, environments, systems, and services." While interaction design has an interest in form (similar to other design fields), its main area of foc ...
and organizational design.
"Wicked Problems in Design Thinking" 1992
"Declaration By Design: Rhetoric, Argument, and Demonstration in Design Practice" 1985
"Human Dignity and Human Rights: Thoughts on the Principles of Human-Centered Design" 2001
"Design Research and the New Learning" 2001
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Case Western Reserve University faculty