As a designer, Douglass Lundman has over 20 years of experience in North America and Japan, from furniture design to urban design to campus planning. Douglass has balanced practice and teaching throughout his career with extended appointments at architecture schools in the US and Japan. He is drawn by "infrastructure" as one current model for an inclusive design that does not determine how people use their environment but rather allows creative options and chance opportunities. He refers to improvisation as an ideal urban condition and to John Cage's works for prepared piano as useful case studies for the design of chairs, studio courses, urban environments and Web sites.

