Changing your Hammer: The Implications of Paradigmatic Innovation for Design Practice
Paul Gardien
http://www.design.philips.com
Group Design, Philips Design, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Paul Gardien is on the Philips Design Board and is responsible for both the strategic development of the global design function and the Design Research & Innovation program. In his strategy role, he has been instrumental in transforming Philips Design from a service unit into a global function inside the company, which is now well-embedded in various Philips groups. The Design Research & Innovation program creates new design competences, future visions and new propositions for Philips and has won numerous awards. The drive in the program is to create meaningful and relevant propositions based on a solid understanding of how these will evolve in the future. Additionally, Paul’s interest is in ensuring that these propositions land in the various businesses and increase their hit rate of innovation. Paul has spent his entire professional career at Philips Design and has worked in many different areas, ranging from consumer products such as lady shavers, monitors and video on demand systems, to professional domains such as test-and-measurement equipment, building management and health systems. Working in many different design disciplines such as product, interaction, multimedia and internet design, Paul has held different management and development functions. Paul studied industrial design engineering at the University of Delft in The Netherlands
Tom Djajadiningrat
http://www.design.philips.com
Group Design, Philips Design, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Tom Djajadiningrat is creative director at Philips Design, The Netherlands where he heads the Future of UI project and is part of the Rapid Co-Creation team. He has a passion for polemics and experimentation at the cross-roads of society, culture, design and technology that go against common sense. His work revolves around co-created tangible concepts of relevant future possibilities that embody a position and influence decisions. He is particularly interested in storytelling, pattern recognition, simplification and tangible experimentation. Previous to Philips, Tom worked in design research academia as a member of the ID-Studiolab of TU Delft, the Designing Quality in Interaction Group of TU Eindhoven and the Mads Clausen Institute of the University of Southern Denmark. He holds a BSc(Hons) in Industrial Design from Brunel University, an MDes in Industrial Design Engineering from the Royal College of Art / Imperial College and a PhD in desktop virtual reality from TU Delft.
Caroline Hummels
http://www.industrialdesign.tue.nl/
Faculty of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Caroline Hummels is full professor at the department of Industrial Design (ID) at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) where she is heading the Designing Quality in Interaction group. Moreover, she is leading the interdepartmental theme Smart Environment, Health@TU/e. Caroline studied Industrial Design Engineering at TU Delft and also obtained her PhD there. Her current activities concentrate on developing theories, frameworks and tools to support designing towards personal, social and societal transformation. Her research, education and design activities address phenomenology-inspired design, research through design, aesthetic and embodied interaction, craftsmanship, engagement, wellbeing and multi-stakeholder design processes. She is a member of the steering committee of the Tangible Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI) Conference, editorial board member of the International Journal of Design, and a member of a variety of (inter)national committees including the Provincial Council of Health. Next to her main job, she is co-owner of a small firm called ID-dock.
Aarnout Brombacher
http://www.industrialdesign.tue.nl/
Faculty of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Netherlands
Aarnout Brombacher was appointed 1-7-1993 as full professor at Eindhoven University of Technology. He currently is professor in Business Process Design in the faculty Industrial Design of Eindhoven University of Technology. With this chair he is responsible for research and education in the fields Quality Information Flows and Customer Perceived Quality in highly innovative product design and development processes. He has authored and co-authored over 100 journal papers and is, together with Doug Montgomery, chief-editor of the journal Quality and Reliability Engineering International. Since March 1, 2010 he is also Dean of the department Industrial Design and since March 1, 2012 also, next to this, Vice-Rector International Relations of Eindhoven University of Technology.