Keynote speakers

Keynote speakers

Cumulus China Keynote Speakers

Francesca Valsecchi, Ph.D. Associate Professor, College of Design and Innovation
Web page
LinkedIn
Projects, achievements, awards:
T-Factor: Unleashing future-facing urban hubs through culture and creativity-led strategies of transformative timehttps://t-factor.eu/
NSFC International Young Scholar (The contribution of Citizens Science to support Urban Nature and ecological literacy in Chinese cities, and its impact on ecological urbanization in China)
Tongji University (Shanghai)

Enza Migliore, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, School of Design
Personal web page
Institutional web page
LinkedIn
SUSTech University (Shenzhen)

Tian Ye, Ph.D.
Assistant President
http://www.gengdan.cn/
Gengdan Institute of Beijing University of Technology

Miaosen Gong, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Director of DESIS Lab
School of Design, Jiangnan University

Li Yicheng
Lecturer, School of Art Suchoow University

Dutch Speakers


Ingeborg de Roode
Curator of Industrial Design

http://www.stedelijk.nl

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Projects, achievements, awards

Ingeborg de Roode (1962) has been the industrial design curator at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam since 2001. She organized many exhibitions such as Marcel Wanders. Pinned Up (2014), Living in the Amsterdam School. Designs for the Interior 1910-1930 (2016), Solution or Utopia? Design for Refugees (2017), Studio Drift. Coded Nature (2018, together with Pao Lien Djie), and It’s Our F***ing Backyard. Designing Material Futures (2022, together with Amanda Pinatih).

Publications and interviews

Ingeborg de Roode wrote for the Dutch financial newspaper about design between 1990 and 2004. Besides many articles and catalogues for the Netherlands Textile Museum (1993-2001) and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, she wrote for publications of the MoMA, New York, Centre Pompidou, Paris, and Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, among others. She is currently preparing an article about the possibility of using the creativity of designers for solving complex societal problems.

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
JanWillem Hoftijzer Course manager/ chair of special interest group Design Sketching (Design Society)/ teacher TU Delft Industrial Design Engineering

Daan van Eijk
Professor
Daan van Eijk is chair professor in Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. He has been working for ± 15 years in the Industrial Design practice and since 2004 in his current position. His focus is on integrating Human, Technology and Business aspects into product service systems.
Van Eijk is known as a connector of industry, knowledge institutes and governmental organizations. He is a driving force in empowering the design sector through networking, knowledge development and education.
He serves as the University representative for the World Design Organisation and the Cumulus Global Association for Art & Design Education. For the last 30 years he has been a regular visitor to East-Asia.
https://www.tudelft.nl/en/
TU Delft Industrial Design Engineering

Stefan Persaud
Senior Lecturer
Web page
LinkedIn
Projects, achievements, awards:
Education Fellowship (TUDelft, 2023)
IDE Teacher of the Year (TUDelft, 2022)
IDE Most inspiring Teacher (TUDelft, 2019-2021)
Comenius Teaching Fellow (NRO, 2019)
Publications and interviews:
Persaud, Flipsen, Van Hinte (2024). CONNECT, the secret formula of coaching design teams, Technische Universiteit Delft.
TU Delft Industrial Design Engineering

Annemieke Geertje Christine van Boeijen
Assistant Professor
Personal web page
Institutional web page
Projects, achievements, awards:
2023 Open Education Ambassador Award bestowed by the TU Delft Extension School in recognition of commitment to openly share knowledge and educational resources with the world.
Publications and interviews
2021-2023
Co-researcher for the PhD in Design research project DoCS4Design.
2020
Author of the book Culture-sensitive design – a guide to culture in design practice.
2020
Co-editor of the 2nd edition of the Delft Design Guide – perspectives, models, approaches, and methods.
2015
Doctoral defence of the PhD thesis ‘Crossing Cultural Chasms: Towards a culture-conscious approach to design’, including the Crossing Cultural Chasms Cards.
2013 – present
Online education: Development and moderation in sofa sessions for the course Product Design: The Delft Design Approach, a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) at the edX platform, Award of
Excellence by the Open Education Consortium. Course development, coordination, and teaching
of the double blended ProFed course Culture Sensitive Design. Spring 2023 I received the Open
Education Ambassador Award.
TU Delft Industrial Design Engineering