José Luis Caivano  

SG ECD Honorary Member José Luis Caivano is an architect and holds a PhD in Arts from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). He is a researcher and professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism (FADU) of the UBA, and a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (Conicet) of Argentina. He holds the highest-ranking position as a researcher according to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. He has also been a research associate at the Research Center for Language and Semiotic Studies at Indiana University, US. He directs the Colour, Light and Visual Semiotics Research Programme at FADU-UBA, where fourteen UBACyT, Conicet and FADU research projects have been carried out from 1996 to 2020, nine of which have been directed by Caivano. In 2016 he inaugurated the chair "Research: Frameworks, Concepts, and Tools" at FADU-UBA, a subject he held for two years. He is a member of the doctoral commission of the FADU-UBA, starting in 2021.

From 2012 to 2015 he was president of the International Association of Visual Semiotics, where he had been vice president since 2001. He was president of the International Colour Association from 2006 to 2009. From 1994 to 2004 he was president of the Argentinean Colour Group (GAC). From 2004 to 2005 he was vice president of the International Colour Association, and previously a member of the executive committee. In this association he was also chairman of the AIC Study Group on Environmental Colour Design from 1997 to 2005. He is an honorary member of the Portuguese Colour Association (APCor), the French ad-chroma Association and the Mexican Association of Colour Researchers (AMEXINC). In addition, he is or has been an active member of the following scientific associations: New York Academy of Sciences; International Association for Semiotic Studies; Semiotic Society of North America; International Association for the Semiotics of Space; Argentinean Association of Semiotics; Argentinean Society for Morphological Studies; and, International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry.

José Luis Caivano has presented papers at more than one hundred national and international conferences and given numerous invited lectures and postgraduate courses in Argentina and abroad (Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Russia, Spain, Taiwan,Turkey, Uruguay). He has published two books as author, fifteen books as editor, and more than 150 articles in collective books, conference proceedings and journals such as: Colour Research and Application (New York, John Wiley & Sons), Die Farbe (Berlin, Muster-Schmidt), Languages of Design (Amsterdam, Elsevier), Leonardo (US, MIT Press), Semiotica (Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter), Visio (journal of the International Association of Visual Semiotics), Cruzeiro Semiotico (journal of the Portuguese Association of Semiotics), Symmetry: Art and Science (journal of the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry), Heterogenesis (Lund, Sweden), DeSignis (Barcelona, Gedisa), Colour: Design & Creativity (Great Britain, Society of Dyers & Colourists), Cognitive Semiotics (Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter), and others.

For ten years he was editor of the magazine AREA (Agenda de reflexión en arquitectura, diseño y urbanismo) and the Serie Difusión, published by the Research Secretariat of the FADU-UBA. He has also been the main editor of the Proceedings of the Argentinean Congresses on Colour (nine volumes published). He is associate editor of the journals Color Research and Application (US) and Color Culture and Science (Italy), member of the editorial board of JAIC-Journal of the International Color Association, and has been a member of the editorial board or advisory board of the journals Visio (Canada), Web Architecture Magazine, The Story of Life (India) and Languages of Design (US).