Eun Ji Cho is an associate research fellow at the College of Design andInnovation, where she also teaches postgraduate students service design, anddesign for social innovation. She received her Ph.D. in Design from Politecnicodi Milano in Italy, and MSc in Design for Interaction from Delft University ofTechnology in the Netherlands. Prior to joining Tongji University, she workedat Hunan University in China as an assistant professor. Her research focuses onservice design for social innovation, especially collaborative services and socialsustainability. Her recent work includes the translation of Ezio Manzini’s bookDesign, When Everybody Designs: AnIntroduction to Design for Social Innovation (MIT press, 2015) into Korean(Ahn graphics, 2016). ej.cho@tongji.edu.cn,taowood@gmail.com

Publications

Cho, E. J. (forthcoming, 2017). Collaborating with local administrative offices to improveneighborhoods: A case study of Design Consultant program, Strategic Design Research Journal, vol. 10, no. 3

Cho, E. J. (forthcoming, 2017) Tackling local problems by embeddingdesign in local administrative offices: A case study of the Design Consultantprogram, In Proceedings of Design forNext - 12th EAD (European Academy of Design) conference, 12-14 April 2017,Rome, Italy 

Cho, E. J. (forthcoming, 2017). Designing for sociability: Ameta-design approach for ICT-mediated collaborative services, 艺术与科学, vol. 15, Tsinghua university press

Manzini, E. &Cho, E. J. (forthcoming, 2017). Social innovation and design: How designers cantrigger and support sustainable changes, 艺术与科学, vol. 15, Tsinghua university press

Zhang, W., Cho,E. J., Jiang, Y., Guo, Y. (2016) Community-based research for innovation anddesign: in the case of Qinghai, In Proceedingsof 22nd International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS),13-15 July 2016, Lisbon, Portugal

Cho, E. J. (2014)Galvanizing local resources: a strategy for sustainable development in ruralchina, In Proceedings of Sustainability,Technology and Education 2014, December 10-12, Taiwan

Cho, E. J. (2013)Designing for Sociability: A Relational Aesthetic approach to serviceencounter, In Proceedings of DPPI 2013(Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces) conference, September 3 -5, 2013, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Cho, E. J. &Rogel, L. (2013) Urban social sustainability through the web: Using ICTs tobuild a community for prospective neighbors, In Proceedings of ICT4S 2013 (Information and Communication Technologiesfor Sustainability), February 14-16, 2013, Zurich, Switzerland