Ph.D.; Professor
Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands

After an education in experimental physics (MSc in 1984), Pieter Jan Stappers made the switch to Industrial Design Engineering at TUDelft, and followed a research path that led from human perception, spatial imagery, Virtual Reality (Ph.D. 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-Studio Lab, and heading the research sub-program on tools and techniques for the conceptual phase of design. Key elements in his work are “research through design,” “experiential prototypes,” and "context mapping."

Email:
P.J.Stappers@tudelft.nl

Scholar:
https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=tGn28BIAAAAJ&hl=nl

Links:
http://www.io.tudelft.nl/en/organisation/personal-profiles/professors/stappers-pj/
http://studiolab.ide.tudelft.nl/studiolab/stappers/