In writing this book, the authors are indebted to many people and institutions. In alphabetical order by country, our thanks go to about 15 different countries.

In Melbourne, Australia, Larissa Hjorth helped by providing a home at RMIT. Thanks also to Jesper for providing a perspective on life. There was also very useful discussion with Swinburne’s Dori Tunstall in December 2009 in Aalborg, Denmark, where Nicola Morelli hosted a dinner with Dori and Pirkko Raudaskoski. In Rio de Janeiro, Andrea and Marcelo Júdice were excellent hosts during and after the carnival season in February 2010. In Denmark, we need to first thank Nicola Morelli at Aalborg University. At the Aarhus School of Architecture, Peter Krogh, Jørgen Rasmussen, Martin Ludvigsen, and Andreas Lykke-Olesen helped us, as did Sofie Beck and Maiken Hillerup Fogtmann. At the University of Aarhus we need to thank Martin Brynskov, Olav Bertelsen, Susanne Bødker, Peter Dalsgaard, Marianne Graves Petersen, Kim Halskov, Ola Iversen, and Morten Kyng. In Copenhagen, our thanks go to many people who work with Thomas Binder, but especially Eva Brandt and Joachim Halse. Thanks to Petra Ahde for providing images from her research.

When visiting Lancaster at its multifaceted Imaginations Institute, I met Tim Dant who helped me to understand sociology. People to thank in London and its vicinity include Anthony Dunne (whom I met all too briefly in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill), Tobie Kerridge, Bill Gaver, and David Frohlich, who organized an excellent family dinner for me and John McCarthy, who happened to be visiting London under the Icelandic ash cloud. In Sheffield, we need to say a kind word to Paul Chamberlain for telling us about Lab4Living and Jim Roddis for his broad view of PhD education in art schools in the United Kingdom. Kristina Niedderer, now in Birmingham, told us about craft research in the United Kingdom.

In Helsinki, we have to thank Tuuli Mattelmäki, Turkka Keinonen, Esko Kurvinen, and Pekka Korvenmaa. Specifically, we want to mention Jussi Mikkonen, with whom I organized two classes in 2007–2008. The basic construct of this book, Lab, Field, Showroom, first saw daylight in these classes. In Berlin, our thanks go to Martin Rinderknecht from design gallery Helmrinderknecht, which hosted the exhibition FreakShow in 2010–2011. Its curator, Sophie Lovell, also deserves credit. Another design gallery we want to thank is Z33 in Hasselt, Belgium, home to two excellent exhibitions, Designing Critical Design and Design by Performance. Kun-Pyo Lee from KAIST and now LG Electronics helped us to understand IASDR and design research in Korea and Japan, as did Jung-Joo Lee at Taik in Helsinki.

In Paris, Christian Licoppe from ParisTech was an excellent host, and thanks also go to Eric Lecolinet for organizing the opportunity to talk at SIGCHI Paris. Annie Gentes organized a pleasant dinner between myself and Armand Hatchuel and Mathias Bejean of l’Ecole des Mines. There are too many people to mention in the most amazing design culture of the world called Milan, but at the top of our list of thanks are Ezio Manzini, Francesca Rizzo, Luca Guerrini, and Anna Meroni. Other people who helped us were Alessandro Biamonti, Daria Cantu, Fabrizio Ceschin, Stefano Maffei, Francesco Trabucco, Francesco Zurlo, Roberto Verganti and, slightly later, Andrea Branzi.

At Technical University of Delft, we would like to thank Pieter Jan Stappers, Cees de Bont, Pieter Desmet, Paul Hekkert, Imre Horváth, and researchers at IO Studiolab for useful discussions and contextualizations. At Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, we are grateful for Kees Overbeeke and his research group, with special thanks to Miguel Alonso, Caroline Hummels, Pierre Levy, Oscar Tomico, and in particular, Joep Frens and Philip Ross. Kees has gathered an exceptional group of young researchers; if only all design researchers could do the same. In Eindhoven, we also bene-fited from discussions with Tom Djajadiningrat at Philips Design. Yolanda van Kessel and Bas Raijmakers told us about research ideas at Design Academy Eindhoven. Later, Bas also told about his work in his agency over a lunch at Spitalfields in London.

At Technical University of Porto, Carlos Aguiar was an excellent host. Latin family life is the envy of the world, and for good reason! Thanks also to Francisco Xavier De Carvalho for opening the doors to the design program of the university. When writing this book, another excellent host was Gordon Hush in Glasgow, but our thanks also extend to the very collegial staff of design programs at the renowned Glasgow School of Art. Gordon: it is my round the next time we see each other in The State. Cheers with your favorite Czech beer!

In Gothenburg, our special thanks goes to the Interactive Institute for providing excellent working conditions for me during my visit in May 2010. At Malmö’s K3, we need to thank Pelle Ehn, who shared one of the last remaining copies of his PhD thesis with me, and Jonas Löwgren, who edited a special issue for the now defunct journal Artifact, where Binder, Redström, and I first published some of the key ideas of this book under the title Lab, Field, Gallery (Koskinen et al., 2008). Swiss Design Network sent us old proceedings from their design conferences without asking anything in return.

You must include the United States when writing about research. In Boston, thanks to the people at MIT Media Lab, and in Chicago, Kei Sato. At Savannah College of Art and Design, we need to thank Victor Ermoli for opening the doors of design to us, Jesus Rojas for showing us the industrial design department, and Joel Wittkamp and Christine Miller not only for a pleasant dinner but also for telling us about the impressive Savannah school. In Los Angeles, we learned many things from Lisa Nugent (now in New York), Yee Chan, Sean Donahue, and Serra Semi. In Pasadena, we got to know Brenda Laurel’s work, which became one of the starting points for us (Laurel 2003). In Palo Alto, our thanks go to Katja Battarbee and Jane Fulton Suri at IDEO and Larry Leifer at Stanford University. In Portland, Ken Anderson and Scott Mainwaring provided us with information about ethnography at Intel and also in Silicon Valley. Jack Whalen talked about his work on PARC and helped with the manuscript when it was getting too large. Jack also wrote an inset about one particularly successful project at PART called Eureka. Last but not least, Carnegie Mellon University has an amazing group of design research scholars; we need to thank in particular Jodi Forlizzi, Dan Boyarski, Suguru Ishizaki, Eric Paulos, Haakon Faste, and Will Odom. CMU has excelled in design since Herbert Simon’s heyday and continues to do so with these people.

Funding for research behind this book mostly came from the Academy of Finland and Aarhus School of Architecture, where I spent three months as visiting professor at the end of 2009. More modest help was provided by Aalto University School of Art and Design (formerly the School of Design at Taik), the Interactive Institute, and the Danish Design School.

At Elsevier and Morgan Kaufmann, we started our journey with Mary James and continued with David Bevans, Danielle Miller, and Rachel Roumeliotis.

2011