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Cheryl Akner Koler, artist and professor
            in applied aesthetics at Department of Industrial Design, Konstfack
            University college of Arts Crafts and Design, Stockholm Sweden.
            She teaches in the Bachelor and Masters program in form theory
            and the development of product gestalt. Her interests are in
            developing knowledge that supports the formgiving phases within
            the design process which combines experiences from the fields
            of art, technology, humanities and science. Akner Koler has lectured
            and given workshops through out Scandinavia including; Oslo school
            of architecture, Aarhus School of Architecture, Lund University,
            Umeå University Design school, Aalborg University, Chalmers
            Technical Design. She also conducts workshops for private design
            firms. Akner Koler has produced more than a dozen solo art exhibitions
            and has lead a number of cross-discplinary projects with physicist
            and other artists and architects. Recently she received a 3 year
            grant from the Swedish Research Council to conduct a Cross-disciplinary
            project in Complexity and Transformation that was based on laborations
            of changing physical phenomena. This study has generated many
            spins off exhibitions, lectures, workshops and articles.