Farouk Y. Seif is Professor Emeritus, Antioch University Seattle, USA, an architect, a Fellow of the International Communicology Institute, and President of the Semiotic Society of America (2018-2019). His main interests are design for social change, paradoxes, transdisciplinarity, and transmodernity. He has taught in universities and lectured at conferences worldwide. He was the recipient of the 2010 Fulbright Specialists Program at University of Sofia, Bulgaria. He is the author of more than 50 articles and a dozen of book chapters.