Prof. Timothy Jachna is Dean of the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at the University of Cincinnati. He holds degrees from the University of Illinois at Chicago (BArch), the Architectural Association in London (AADipl), and RMIT University in Melbourne (PhD). He has previously held academic and professional posts in architecture, design and urbanism in Hong Kong, Berlin and Chicago, and has presented and published in disciplines as diverse as urban theory, tourism, digital culture, social innovation, semiotics, participatory design, art, architecture, planning, cybernetics, and human-computer interaction. His recent research and writing focus on psycho-sociological aspects of the planning, design, construction, and inhabitation of urban environments, the future of cities, and digital culture.