who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

K. W. Lau
The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University, Institute of Textiles &
Clothing, Hung Hom, Kowloon,
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Keywords creativity, design
education, creative-thinking
techniques, creative pedagogy
Adam Lauder
York University, Research in e-
Librarianship, 4700 Keele Street,
Toronto, Ontario, MJ3-1P3, Canada
Keywords modern art, new media,
curating, Canada
Rosanna Law
AECOM
Keywords
› Crafting narratives: Using historical context as a refl ective tool, Craft
Research, 2.1, 37-60.
Dr. Kung Wong Lau (Robert) is a visiting assistant professor at the
Institute of Textiles and Clothing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University. He is interested in creativity training, design thinking and
environmental stimulation in creativity. He pays particular attention on
the relationships between shard virtual reality and creativity training
for higher design education.
› Rethinking the creativity training in design education: a study of
creativethinking tools for facilitating creativity development of design
students, Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 8.1, 71-84.
Adam Lauder is W.P. Scott Chair for Research in e-Librarianship at
York University in Toronto, where he is developing an electronic
catalogue raisonné of the work of Iain Baxter. Lauder is also the author
of a chapter on the N.E. Thing Co. in Byproduct: On the Excess of
Embedded Art Practices as well as an article on Iain Baxter in the 2010
volume of the Canadian Journalof Art History. He is curator of an
exhibition devoted to Canadian modernist and advertising executive
Bertram Brooker (1888–1955), It’s Alive! Bertram Brooker and
Vitalism as well as the author of a chapter on Brooker in The Logic of
Nature, The Romance of Space. His interview with Montreal curator
Vincent Bonin appears in the December 2010 issue of magazine.
Lauder is also a regular contributor to theHunter and Cook
› Circumvention anxieties: Contemporary economies of dis/belief, Technoetic
Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 8.3, 283-297.
Rosanna Law is a Director/Senior Associate of urban design at
AECOM Design + Planning, London. An architect-urbanist by
training, Rosanna Law sees the crafting of places and spatial planning
as an integral part of social policies. Her design leadership for the
Msheireb Heart of Doha Masterplan has set a new benchmark for urban
planning in the region. Global urban issues such as climate change,
cultural diversity and rapid urbanization are consciously addressed