As a professor of Co-Design, Remko has been conducting research since 2007 through practice-oriented projects on involving people in innovation projects. He emphasizes how users can be elevated to ‘experience experts’ and how the tools, methods, skills, and attitudes of designers can accelerate complex innovation projects.
Remko studied Maritime Technology at TU Delft. He pursued a master’s degree in Creative Studies at the Center for Studies in Creativity in Buffalo, New York: the birthplace of brainstorming. At the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at TU Delft, he earned his PhD in 2001 with the dissertation “Sketching in design idea generation meetings”.
He has extensive practical experience in facilitating creative co-design processes for both profit (Unilever, Philips, Sara Lee, GITP) and non-profit organizations (Dutch Tax and Customs Administration, Rijkswaterstaat, SURFnet, KNVB Professional Football Section). He is active in the Network Applied Design Research (NADR) as the leader of a program line on the emancipation of design research.
Expertises:
• Creativity in product design
• Co-design
