Sharon Helmer Poggenpohl is a design scholar and educator. She was the editor and publisher of the interdisciplinary journal ''

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''.

Education and career

Poggenpohl obtained an MS from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in 1974, and first taught at the Rhode Island School of Design. From 1987 to 2013, she coordinated the PhD in design program of the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and edited the journal ''Visual Language''. She went on to develop an

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program at

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. Poggenpohl is known for her work to develop graduate studies in design, through the edition of anthology and the publications of essays. These include the book Design Integrations.

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