
Pieter Jan Stappers
Abstract:
(Industrial) Design Widening from Products to Services 2005-2015
Bio:
After an education in experimental physics (MSc 1984), Pieter Jan Stappers made the switch to Industrial Design Engineering at TU Delft, and followed a research path which led from human perception, spatial imagery, Virtual Reality (PhD in 1992), to design tools and participatory design techniques. His current activities include director Graduate School and Research of the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, a design research programme with 140 PhD candidates. Key elements in his work are ‘research through design’, ‘experiential prototyping’, and ‘context mapping’, which can be found on his webpage.