Hi I’m Jan. Industrial Designer and Design Educator.
I believe in the magic of interdisciplinary teams. Truly great design WORK is possible when transcending the limiting boundaries of our professions. A future-proof design EDUCATION is at the heart about designing environments and processes for fruitful collaborations. Thinking in SYSTEMS is our powerful enabler: Unveiling the underlying root causes of our challenges, we can establish structures for purposeful design work.
Work
Currently I help both young and established organisations innovate, evaluate and verify by materializing ideas at MATTERSHIP together with my fantastic co-founder Jakob Lehr.
More dear collaborations that impacted me as a designer:
2013-2018 I was designing and implementing spatial experiences with multidisciplinary teams at ARCHIMEDES EXHIBITIONS. Science and brand communication is a true passion of mine as it unites all design disciplines, science and education for a common cause: Delivering snacks, bits and sometimes chunks of knowledge in playful ways that stick!
2010 - 2012 I was engineering art pieces for dutch design house DEMAKERSVAN. A perfect marriage between high-tech production processes with a poetic gesture.
Education
2018 - 2022 I had the pleasure of educating the next generation of product designers as Professor of Product Design and Head of the Program at BERLIN INTERNATIONAL UoaS. Interdisciplinary student teams together with Graphic Design, Interaction Design, Interior Design and Architecture tackle challenges of today and speculate on desirable futures. Empathy as a design superpower close to our hearts. We shipped novel product-service-systems for real people in the real world.
2011-2013 I was a research assistant [wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter] at the UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS BERLIN [UdK]. We patented an emissions-free furniture board, which consists wholly of renewable raw materials – harmless to mankind and nature in every respect.
SYSTEMS
Beware of the oversimplification trap! Purposeful projects acknowledge the complexity of the systems surrounding us. Systems thinking helps us to frame our challenges, break them down into actionable tasks and provides us with a common language to collaborate across disciplines. I’m interested in shaping systems for relevant design work, employing the right tools, methods and processes at the right time together with the right people. Responsive and agile - adapting to ever changing challenges.
Hi I’m Jan. Industrial Designer and Design Educator.
I believe in the magic of interdisciplinary teams. Truly great design WORK is possible when transcending the limiting boundaries of our professions. A future-proof design EDUCATION is at the heart about designing environments and processes for fruitful collaborations. Thinking in SYSTEMS is our powerful enabler: Unveiling the underlying root causes of our challenges, we can establish structures for purposeful design work.
Currently I help both young and established organisations innovate, evaluate and verify by materializing ideas at MATTERSHIP together with my fantastic co-founder Jakob Lehr.
More dear collaborations that impacted me as a designer:
2013-2018 I was designing and implementing spatial experiences with multidisciplinary teams at ARCHIMEDES EXHIBITIONS. Science and brand communication is a true passion of mine as it unites all design disciplines, science and education for a common cause: Delivering snacks, bits and sometimes chunks of knowledge in playful ways that stick!
2010 - 2012 I was engineering art pieces for dutch design house DEMAKERSVAN. A perfect marriage between high-tech production processes with a poetic gesture.
2018 - 2022 I had the pleasure of educating the next generation of product designers as Professor of Product Design and Head of the Program at BERLIN INTERNATIONAL UoaS. Interdisciplinary student teams together with Graphic Design, Interaction Design, Interior Design and Architecture tackle challenges of today and speculate on desirable futures. Empathy as a design superpower close to our hearts. We shipped novel product-service-systems for real people in the real world.
2011-2013 I was a research assistant [wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter] at the UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS BERLIN [UdK]. We patented an emissions-free furniture board, which consists wholly of renewable raw materials – harmless to mankind and nature in every respect.