In Memoriam Kees Overbeeke

dep. of Industrial Design/TU Technische UniversiteitEindhovenUniversity of TechnologyeProf. dr. Kees OverbeekeJuly 18, 1952 - October 8, 2011

In memoriam

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)


Spatial perception on a flat screen

ecological theory of perception (Gibson)


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)


Our Beliefsprinciples about design and

design research


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.


Dreaming of the impossible pushes us

to do great things.

In Memoriam Kees Overbeeke

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