Pieter Jan Stappers

After an education in experimental physics (MSc 1984) he 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 as full professor of design techniques (as of 2002) encompass coordinating the Faculty's Graduate School, being informal director of ID-StudioLab, and heading the research subprogramme on tools and techniques for the conceptual phase of design. Key elements in his work are 'research through design', 'experiential prototypes' and contextmapping.



last update: Septmber 2013

 

Articles published on IXD&A:

Involving children and elderly in the development of new design concepts to become active together, N. 21, pp. 86-100, 2014, abstractdownload

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