OPENING LECTURE MAI: CAROLINE HUMMELS

Caroline Hummels is Director of Education at the Department of Industrial Design, and associate professor on Aesthetics of Interaction in the Design of Intelligent Products and Systems’ at Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.

For Caroline, “open design is a specific approach to design, in which a group of intrinsically motivated people from various backgrounds develop design opportunities and solutions together in an open community, based on respect for each other’s skills and expertise. Open design requires a flexible and open platform that assumes open access, sharing, active participation, responsibility, commitment to do good work for its own sake, respect, change, learning and ever evolving knowledge and skills.