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andFrancqui Research Professor in the Department of Architecture at KU Leuven (University of Leuven), where she co-chairs the Research[x]Design group. Her main research interests are situated at the interface of architectural design and social sciences/humanities. She is particularly interested in how insight into human diversity may expand prevailing ways of understanding and designing space. Ann was awarded several research grants, including a Starting Grant and Proof-of-Concept Grant of the European Research Council. She is Fellow of the Design Research Society, Associate Editor of Design Studies and Member of the editorial board of CoDesign and of Building Research and Information. Ann studied architectural engineering at KU Leuven and ETH Zürich. After completing her Ph.D. at KU Leuven, she conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley, and she was Visiting Professor at Sapienza-University of Rome.




Jonathan Lazar, Ph.D., LLM is a Professor in the College of Information Studies (iSchool) at the University of Maryland. Professor Lazar has authored or edited 14 books, including Accessible Technology and the Developing World (co-edited with Michael Stein), Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction (2nd edition, co-authored with Heidi Feng and Harry Hochheiser), Ensuring Digital Accessibility Through Process and Policy (co-authored with Dan Goldstein and Anne Taylor), Disability, Human Rights, and Information Technology (co-edited with Michael Stein), Universal Usability: Designing Computer Interfaces for Diverse User Populations, and Web Usability: A User-Centered Design Approach. Professor Lazar has published over 150 refereed articles in journals, conference proceedings, and edited books, frequently serves as Adviser to U.S. government agencies, regularly provides testimony at the federal and state levels, and multiple U.S. federal regulations cite his research. At the University of Maryland iSchool, he teaches courses on human-computer interaction, user-centered design, accessibility, and legal research methods. He is Recipient of the 2021 ACM SIGCHI Academy Award, the 2020 ACM SIGACCESS Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computing and Accessibility, the 2017 University System of Maryland Board of Regents Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, and the 2016 ACM SIGCHI Social Impact Award. Dr. Lazar recently served as General Chair of the ACM ASSETS 2021 conference. At the University of Maryland, Dr. Lazar is Faculty Member in the Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) and serves as Director of the Trace Research and Development Center, one of the world's oldest research centers on technology and disability.




John Clarkson is a Professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge and in the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology. He is Director of the Cambridge Engineering Design Centre and Co-Director of Cambridge Public Health. His research interests include process management, change management, healthcare design, inclusive design, and automotive design. As well as publishing over 800 papers, he has written and edited a number of books on medical equipment design, inclusive design, and process management. John is Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. He was elected Fellow of the Design Society in 2021 and awarded the Sir Misha Black Medal in 2018 for services to Design Education.