in memoriam kees overbeeke
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In this presentation you find prof. Kees Overbeeke's beliefs: his principles concerning design and design research.TRANSCRIPT
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dep. of Industrial Design/TU Technische UniversiteitEindhovenUniversity of TechnologyeProf. dr. Kees OverbeekeJuly 18, 1952 - October 8, 2011
In memoriam
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In memoriam
full professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, dep. of Industrial Design
studied psychology at theKatholieke Universititeit Leuven
(1974)
PhD at Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of
Technology (1988)
dep. of Industrial Design/TU Technische UniversiteitEindhovenUniversity of TechnologyeProf. dr. Kees OverbeekeJuly 18, 1952 - October 8, 2011
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Spatial perception on a flat screen
ecological theory of perception (Gibson)
dep. of Industrial Design/TU Technische UniversiteitEindhovenUniversity of TechnologyeProf. dr. Kees OverbeekeJuly 18, 1952 - October 8, 2011
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In memoriamheaded the Form Theory
group as Associate Professor
moved to the department of Industrial Design, TU/e in 2002
Nierenberg Chair of Design at Carnegie Mellons School of
Design in Pittsburgh
headed the Designing Quality in Interaction group as full professor
(2006 until September 2011)
dep. of Industrial Design/TU Technische UniversiteitEindhovenUniversity of TechnologyeProf. dr. Kees OverbeekeJuly 18, 1952 - October 8, 2011
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Our Beliefsprinciples about design and
design research
dep. of Industrial Design/TU Technische UniversiteitEindhovenUniversity of TechnologyeProf. dr. Kees OverbeekeJuly 18, 1952 - October 8, 2011
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ID is about people. It is about our lives, our
hopes and dreams, our loneliness and joy, our
sense of beauty and justice, about the social
and the good. It is about being in the world.
dep. of Industrial Design/TU Technische UniversiteitEindhovenUniversity of TechnologyeBeing in the worldPhilip Ross, AEI, 2004-2008
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In accordance with Merleau-Pontys,
Dourishs and others approaches to
epistemology, we strongly believe that meaning
cannot be detached from action. Meaning is in
(inter)action. There is a primacy of embodiment.
dep. of Industrial Design/TU Technische UniversiteitEindhovenUniversity of TechnologyeThe primacy of actionFormer Master students ID, Mus>ck, 2008
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A design theory must be a theory of
action and the embodied in the first
place, and of meaning in the second, and not the
other way round. Reflection on action is the
source of knowledge.
dep. of Industrial Design/TU Technische UniversiteitEindhovenUniversity of TechnologyeReflection on actionFormer Master students ID, 2009
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The designerly way of looking is rooted in a
1st person perspective while intermittently taking a 3rd person
perspective. Consequently, design
relies on connecting the sensorial, intuitive to the
abstract, analytical.
dep. of Industrial Design/TU Technische UniversiteitEindhovenUniversity of TechnologyeFirst / third person perspectiveDesigning for points of view, 2011
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Design can allow for transformation. It is
about creating opportunities instead of
solving problems. To do so, designers use
ambiguity, uncertainty, open-endedness, and
resistance. They take risks and dare to fail.
dep. of Industrial Design/TU Technische UniversiteitEindhovenUniversity of TechnologyeCreating opportunities for transformationJohn Helmes, The Other Brother, 2009
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The methods used must be rooted in
design practice, in the socio-cultural and multi-
cultural environment, invigorated by
experimental and technological methods from other disciplines.
dep. of Industrial Design/TU Technische UniversiteitEindhovenUniversity of TechnologyeDesign methodsLight through Culture, Siena, 2011
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Design practice and design research are
powerful generators of knowledge. They are a
way of looking at the world and transforming it.
Consequently, design teaching and research should be interwoven.
dep. of Industrial Design/TU Technische UniversiteitEindhovenUniversity of TechnologyeInterweaving practice and researchEva Deckers, PeR, 2009
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Intuition and common sense should be high
on the agenda and exploited to the
maximum. Le sens commun nest pas si
commun, as Voltaire said.
dep. of Industrial Design/TU Technische UniversiteitEindhovenUniversity of TechnologyeIntuition and common senseBart Hengeveld, LinguaBytes, 2006-2011
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Prof. dr. Kees OverbeekeJuly 18, 1952 - October 8, 2011
Had I the heavens embroidered cloths,
dep. of Industrial Design/TU Technische UniversiteitEindhovenUniversity of Technologye
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet;
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams
William Butler Yeats
Dreaming of the impossible pushes us
to do great things.
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dep. of Industrial Design/TU Technische UniversiteitEindhovenUniversity of TechnologyeProf. dr. Kees OverbeekeJuly 18, 1952 - October 8, 2011
Dreaming of the impossible pushes us
to do great things.