me
I am professor at the School of Design at the Linnæus University (Lnu) in the south east of Sweden. My research has focus on design methods and processes that lead to innovative product design. I am especially interested in participatory design where prospective users and other stakeholders are active.
My current research interest concerns how we can create proposals for artefacts that
will be regarded as meaningful by future users and other stakeholders. Basically this has two sides. One is the creative
part, the design processes and methods. The other is the use aspect; the meaning people attribute artefacts
in specific contexts. Co-operative, human-centred
design approaches combine these two concerns since participants in the process co-operatively create knowledge about, and can show how future use can be in order to be regarded as meaningful.
I have created some publications and a video on
co-operative design approaches.
I'm also part owner of the design consultancy Andersson & Westerlund in Stockholm.
My background is in industrial design, I hold a PhD from KTH and I graduated with a master in industrial design 1985 at Konstfack (University College of Arts, Craft and Design). Together with Peter Johansson I ran the design consultancy Industridesignbyrån in Stockholm until 1997.
1996-2009 I worked as a researcher at HCI,
CSC, KTH. One great co-operative design research projects I was engaged
in was interLiving.
Some other projects were the EU funded projects NEPOMUK
and MonAmi, the K-project, Garden of Knowledge, Daphne.
I also ran quite a lot of co-operative workshops which is one foundation for my PhD thesis, Design Space Exploration.
The HCI department is
at the School for Computer Science and Communication at KTH, the Royal
Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
1993-2001 I was a Senior Lecturer in graphic technology at Konstfack in Stockholm, the department for Graphic Design & Illustration.
Feel free to contact me by email at bosse [at] bowesterlund.se.
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2010-01-29 - www.bowesterlund.se
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