Caroline Hummels

Caroline Hummels is professor of Design and Theory for Transformative Qualities at the Department of Industrial Design at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Over the past 25 years, she has worked at the forefront of design reseach pushing its boundaries, for example, by (co-) establishing the field of Research through Design, and jointly establishing ACMTEI, as program co-chair of the inaugural TEI 2007 conference, conference cochair of TEI 2016, next to being a steering committee member. With designing for transforming practices, she is taking with her colleagues, social, public, and private partners the next leap in design research: imagining and designing alternative practices for sustainable worlds in becoming driven by design philosophy correspondence. Embodied interaction, aesthetics, complexity, and technology-in-becoming play an important role in her work. Hummels received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Delft University of Technology in Industrial Design Engineering.