Alain Findeli is Full Professor at the School of Industrial Design of the University of Montreal where he has been teaching for about 30 years. Trained as an engineer in physics (INSA, Lyon) and researcher in materials science (IIT, Chicago and Polytechnics, Montreal), he reoriented his career and interests toward the human and social aspects of engineering, technology, and design (M.A. in Architecture, Montreal; Doct. in Aesthetics, Paris). He concluded his extensive study of the history of design education in his book 'Le Bauhaus de Chicago: l'oeuvre pédagogique de Làszlò Moholy-Nagy' (1995). His current research topics and recent publications cover more general philosophical issues of the theory and practice of design (logic, aesthetics, ethics) as well as some key pedagogical aspects of design research education. He is the founder and current scientific and pedagogical director of the Master's program in "Design & Complexity" in Montreal. As a Guest Professor at the University of Nîmes (France) in 2006, he is planning to introduce a research agenda on the most recent developments of design theory and methodology (service and social design, sustainable public projects, quality of place in rurban living environments).