Angela Dumas

Angela Dumas was one of the participants in the workshop Info-eco Communities at Doors 3.

Angela Dumas, London Business School, London, until recently ran the school's design management centre and also is a design researcher at Insead in Paris. She likes to have people design very specific things (like a clock) in order that they understand the design process at first hand. She is now director of research at the British Design Council, where she is developing a new programme of research initiatives in design. She received her MA in Environmental Design from the Royal College of Art in London and her PhD in management from London University.

Her publications include:

• 1994: Building Totems: Metaphor-Making in Product Development', with Kiyonori Sakakibara and Shinji Watanabe, Design Management Journal, Vol 5, No1.
• 1994: `The New Product Trajectory: The Japanese Context of Product Innovation', Harvard Business Review
• 1989: `Why Design is Difficult to Manage', with Allan Whitfield, European Management Journal, Vol 7, No1.