Honorary fellows

An Honorary Fellow is an individual recognised by the Society to have rendered outstanding services to the Society or to the design community in general, due regard being paid to the fact that this is the highest honour the Society can bestow.

List of Honorary Fellows

Mogens Myrup Andreasen

(Denmark)

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark

Herbert Birkhofer

(Germany)

Product Development and Machine Elements, Faculty for Mechanical and Process Engineering

Nigel Cross

(United Kingdom)

Department of Design, The Open University

Wolfgang Ernst Eder

(Canada)

Royal Military College of Canada

Michael French

(United Kingdom)

Lancaster University

John Gero

(Australia)

Key Centre of Design Computing & Cognition (G04), University of Sydney

Gerhard Pahl

(Germany)

Technical University of Darmstadt

Ken Wallace

(United Kingdom)

Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

Hiroyuki Yoshikawa

(Japan)

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Nomination of Honorary Fellows

Every Member of the Design Society can nominate individuals (who need not have been Members of the Society before) as Honorary Members. The final decision is with the Board of Management. By tradition, Honorary Membership is awarded with a ceremony at ICED conferences, but can in special cases also be bestowed at other times and locations.

Please use the following form for the nomination of potential Honorary Fellows.