claim: Dan Trachtenberg is from the United States.
evidence: The Design Research Society -LRB- DRS -RRB- , founded in the United Kingdom in 1966 , is an international society for developing and supporting the interests of the design research community .. United Kingdom. United Kingdom. design research. design research. The primary purpose of the DRS , as embodied in its first statement of rules , is to promote ` the study of and research into the process of designing in all its many fields ' .. This established the intention of being an interdisciplinary , learned society , taking a scholarly and domain independent view of the process of designing .. learned society. Learned. Membership is open to anyone interested in design research , and members with established experience and a strong background in design research may apply to be elected as a DRS Fellow .. design research. design research