who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Keywords distributed cognition,
design, cognition, practice, everyday
design
Antti Raike
Aalto University, Media department,
Hämeentie 135 C, PL31000, Helsinki,
76, Finland
Keywords art education, Computer
Supported Collaborative Learning,
design research, film studies,
inclusion
Mrinalini Rajagopalan
University of Pittsburgh, Department
of the History of Art and Architecture
at the University of Pittsburgh
Keywords
(Germany) where he has built up and headed the department of media
design. Currently he is working at the German Society for Design
Theory and Research (DGTF) and finishing his Ph.D. thesis on
everyday design practices of student learners. His research interests
include design research, technology enhanced learning, and
usability/user experience.
› Everyday Practice as Design, Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 3.2,
149-159.
Doctor of Arts (DA) Antti Raike works as a post-doctoral researcher at
the Media department of the Aalto University School of Art and
Design, and leads the three-year project ‘VIPP – Visual Innovations for
Inclusive Projects with Diverse Participants’ (2008--2010) funded by
the Academy of Finland. Projects led by Raike have been connected to
film studies and the general aim of inclusion, for a shared and open
university, which should adapt flexibly to the needs of different
students. The aim of his doctoral dissertation was to produce an
accessible web-based study product 'CinemaSense', as well as to
clarify, in support of the production, the sign-language students’
deepening of knowledge and conceptualization related to the subject of
cinematic expression, as well as their collaboration during the webbased
course.
› Concept maps in the design of an accessible CinemaSense service, Art,
Design & Communication in Higher Education, 8.1, 27-55.
Mrinalini Rajagopalan is Assistant Professor in the Department of the
History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. Her
work focuses on the colonial legacies of architectural preservation in
the Indian subcontinent. She is currently working on a manuscript on
this topic titled 'Building Histories: The Social Lives of Delhi's
Monuments from Imperial Pasts to Postcolonial Presents'. She is also
the co-editor of the forthcoming volume, Colonial Frames, Nationalist
Histories: Imperial Legacies, Architecture and Modernity (Ashgate,
2012). Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh,
Rajagopalan held fellowships at New York University, the Aga Khan
Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT and the South Asian Studies
Council at Yale University.
› CONFERENCE PRECIS, International Journal of Islamic Architecture, 1.1,