Kaja Tooming Buchanan的研究關(guān)注在復(fù)雜的組織環(huán)境中的用戶研究,設(shè)計理論和策略。她的興趣在于研究創(chuàng)意項目對組織和整個社會的影響,尤其是人在社會交往中的復(fù)雜的社會和文化環(huán)境的體驗。她通過調(diào)查感知設(shè)計的正面社會影響,意義建構(gòu),以及經(jīng)驗的人際交往和服務(wù)的形式。她在2007年從瑞典哥德堡大學(xué)取得設(shè)計博士學(xué)位。其博士研究內(nèi)容是在生產(chǎn)技術(shù)與詩意美學(xué)的戰(zhàn)略背景下,為手工纖維藝術(shù)在室內(nèi)空間設(shè)計中的應(yīng)用提供造型以及聲音的實踐案例研究。作為一名執(zhí)業(yè)藝術(shù)家和設(shè)計師,她已經(jīng)有十余個個展,參加了十多個國際聯(lián)展,并獲得了二十多項文化和科研資助和獎學(xué)金。Kaja Tooming Buchanan教授目前居住在美國。
Kaja Tooming Buchanan works in complex organizational environments with special focus on user research, design theory and strategy. Her interest lies in creative projects that impact organizations and society at large, especially the experience of people in social interaction in complex social and cultural environments. She investigates the positive social influence of design through perception, the construction of meaning, and the forms of experience in human interaction and services. She received her Ph.D. in Design from the Faculty of Fine, Applied, and Performance Arts at G?teborg University, Sweden in 2007. Her doctoral research is an example of practice-based design research guided by the strategy of Productive Science and Poetics. As a practicing artist and designer, she has had more than ten solo exhibitions, participated in a dozen international group exhibitions, and she has received more than twenty cultural and research grants and fellowships. Kaja Tooming Buchanan currently lives in the United States.