Caroline Hummels is professor Design and Theory for
Transformative Qualities at the department of Industrial Design at the
Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Her activities concentrate on
designing and researching transforming practices. With her team and external
stakeholders, including the Provence of North-Brabant, Philips Design, RISE,
Rijkswaterstaat, Enpuls and ZET, she leverages emerging technologies through
which they jointly change practices to navigate transforming societies towards
sustainable futures. Doing so, she focuses on being-in-the-world theories, embodied
and aesthetics interactions, imagination, data-enabled design and participatory
sensemaking. She researches and questiones transforming practices and societies
through theoretical lenses, including design-philosophy correspondence, in
which philosophy informs design practice and design practice is used to
philosophise, in order to tackle imminent societal challenges.
Caroline is founder and member of the steering committee of the Tangible
Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI) Conference, editorial board member of
the International Journal of Design, member of the Dutch Design Week sounding
board, and ambassador of CLIKCNL for the Key Enabling Methodologies related to
‘Participation and co-creation’. Moreover, she has given a large number of keynote
speeches, invited lectures and workshops at conferences, international
universities and for industry and governmental institutes worldwide.
Caroline Hummels is professor Design and Theory for
Transformative Qualities at the department of Industrial Design at the
Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Her activities concentrate on
designing and researching transforming practices. With her team and external
stakeholders, including the Provence of North-Brabant, Philips Design, RISE,
Rijkswaterstaat, Enpuls and ZET, she leverages emerging technologies through
which they jointly change practices to navigate transforming societies towards
sustainable futures. Doing so, she focuses on being-in-the-world theories, embodied
and aesthetics interactions, imagination, data-enabled design and participatory
sensemaking. She researches and questiones transforming practices and societies
through theoretical lenses, including design-philosophy correspondence, in
which philosophy informs design practice and design practice is used to
philosophise, in order to tackle imminent societal challenges.
Caroline is founder and member of the steering committee of the Tangible
Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI) Conference, editorial board member of
the International Journal of Design, member of the Dutch Design Week sounding
board, and ambassador of CLIKCNL for the Key Enabling Methodologies related to
‘Participation and co-creation’. Moreover, she has given a large number of keynote
speeches, invited lectures and workshops at conferences, international
universities and for industry and governmental institutes worldwide.