ITU International Design Lectures

Human-centered Design: Epistemology, Principles and Key Concepts




Professor Klaus Krippendorff

University of Pennsylvania

11 Mart 2010, Perşembe, 17.00.

ITU Taskisla, Salon 213

Klaus Krippendorff, born in 1932 in Germany, had an engineering degree from the State Engineering School Hanover in 1954. He graduated as diplom-designer from the Ulm School of Design (Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm) in 1961. In 1967, he received his Ph.D. in communications from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1964, he joined the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is now a professor of communication. Professor Krippendorff’s research expertise span from epistemology to design: Social constructivist epistemology and second-order cybernetics, Mathematical foundations of cybernetics, systems theory, communication and information theories, Content analysis, Reliability analysis, including Krippendorff's Alpha, Emancipatory theory and critical scholarship, Product Semantics , Human-centered design principles for the information age. Krippendorff was awarded the Norbert Wiener Medal in Cybernetics in gold by the American Society for Cybernetics for his contributions to cybernetics in 2001, and the Norbert Wiener/Hermann Schmidt Prize by the German Society for Cybernetics and German Society for Pedagogy and Information in 2004. Prof. Krippendorff has published widely on cybernetics , methodology in the social sciences, communication, discourse and design. Among his major works are Content Analysis: An Introduction to its Methodology (1980), Product Semantics, wiith R. Butter (Eds.) Design Issues; Special Issue (1989), Design: A Discourse on Meaning; A Work Book (1994), Design in the Age of Information, A Report to the National Science Foundation (NSF). (1997) , The Semantic Turn; A New Foundation for Design (2006), The Content Analysis Reader, with M. A. Bock (Eds.). (2008), and On Communicating; Otherness, Meaning, and Information. F. Bermejo (Ed.) (2009). http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/krippendorff/

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