Curriculum vitae
Bo Westerlund, PhD, MFA
Current positions (some)
Professor in industrial design at Konstfack (University College of Arts, Crafts and Design) in Stockholm.
In the steering group of the Swedish Faculty for Design Research and Research Education, (Designfakulteten, D!, in Swedish)
Member of the Swedish Research Council’s committee for artistic research and artistic developmental work (abbreviation KFoU, VR in Swedish).
Affiliated professor in in the subject area design methods with emphasis at early product development at The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH, ITM).
Education (some)
1970 Studentexamen, Naturvetenskaplig linje, Hersby, Lidingö
1970-73 Mathematics, Physics, Electronics, at the University of Stockholm
and the University of Uppsala (90p)
1978-79 National economics at the University of Stockholm. (40p).
1981-1985 Industrial Designer MFA. Konstfack, Stockholm. (170p)
1990 Ergonomics, Arbetsmiljöinstitutet, National Institute of Occupational
Health. (15p)
2006–2009 PhD studies in Human–Computer Interaction with a focus on co-operative design processes. Earned the PhD degree with the thesis Design Space Exploration 2009-11-06.
Entrepreneurial and academic positions (some)
1985–1997 Starts, works in and owns the industrial design firm Industridesignbyrån*
that carried out commisions in many fields for small and large companies.
1997– Starts and owns the design firm Andersson & Westerlund.
1993–2001 Senior Lecturer in Graphic Technique at the department of Graphic Design and Illustration, Konstfack, Stockholm.
1996–2009 Guest researcher at CID, Centre for User Oriented IT Design, at
the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. Name changed to HCI,
CSC in 2005. http://hci.csc.kth.se
2001-2003 Key investigator in “interLiving” a EU financed cooperative
design project within the Disappearing Computer initiative, IST-FET.
http://interliving.kth.se
2006-2008 Local project leader for the KTH part of the EU financed project
NEPOMUK http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/
2002–2004 Guest lecturer at the School of design Kalmar-Nybro at the University
of Kalmar.
2004–2006 Visiting professor in Industrial Design at the School of design,
Kalmar-Nybro at the University of Kalmar.
2006–2011 Professor in design methodology at the School of Design, University
of Kalmar. 2010 this university merged with Växjö University into the Linnæus University, http://lnu.se/design
2010–2012 Affiliated professor in in the subject area design methods with emphasis at early product development at The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH, ITM).
2011– Professor in Industrial Design at Konstfack in Stockholm.
Contests, Exhibitions and scholarship (some)
1985 Luntmakargatan*, Contest concerning public environment. Second prize.
1987 “58 Svenska Designer” *, (58 Swedish Designer)
Design Center,
Stockholm, and on tour around Sweden.
1998 “Interactive web”, a collaborative, interactive shopping cart
that participated in the Art exhibition “Marknaden” (the Market)
at World Trade Center, Stockholm and at two exhibitions at Konstfack. Made possible by Artistic Development (KU) funding from Konstfack.
2005 The Torsten Dahlin scholarship that supports
knowledge development and research in industrial design. SVID on the motivation, etc.
2010 I was awarded the Design Research Prize, for my thesis.
(*together with Peter Johansson).
Publications ...
2011-09-10 - www.bowesterlund.se
