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Bas Raijmakers

Dr. Bas Raijmakers PhD (RCA) is Reader in Strategic Creativity at Design Academy Eindhoven and leads the in-house CRISP research team. Bas has a background in cultural studies, the internet industry, and interaction design. His main passion is to bring people we design for into design and innovation processes, using visual storytelling. He holds a PhD in Interaction Design from the Royal College of Art in London. He is also co-founder and Creative Director of STBY in London and Amsterdam, a design research consultancy specialised in creative research for service design and innovation. Bas works for clients in  the public sector and industry around the globe.

Please contact Bas via email or twitter.

Articles

Cure With Care. Plea for a More Sensory Architecture

Bas Raijmakers, 24-06-2015
The health care system in the Netherlands is under pressure; the social welfare system is unsustainable. Rising costs in health care and above al...

Out of Touch

Bas Raijmakers, 24-06-2015
How the blind and visual impaired – and in fact every sensible human being – can benefit from haptic architecture. author: Daniell...

Thinking Through Making – An approach to orchestrating innovation between design and anthropology

Bas Raijmakers, 24-06-2015
Co-creation in both ethnographic research and design is engrained in much of the design research projects at the Strategic Creativity Readership ...

Defining Values Through Collaboration

Bas Raijmakers, 24-06-2015
As the service sector within the global economy is growing at a rapid pace, design is called upon by the economy, society and culture to help add...

Tangible Research as Inspiration for Business Innovation

Bas Raijmakers, 24-06-2015
The amount of social, environmental and economic problems facing the world have increased,...

Making Research Tangible

Bas Raijmakers, 24-06-2015
How can knowledge creation support creativity in playing a more strategic role in service innovation for society and the economy, by positioning &lsqu...

Value Pursuit: Creating Value Between Stakeholders In Policy Development

Bas Raijmakers, 24-06-2015
How can stakeholders concerned within water management policy-making facilitate the expansion of responsibility for water management on...

Value Pursuit. A tool for structuring conversation and encouraging collaboration in stakeholder networks

Bas Raijmakers, 24-06-2015
As companies move from providing specific products to providing a combination of products and services, their networks expand to include professi...

Metaphors as a common language for empathic conversations in collaborative networks

Bas Raijmakers, 24-06-2015
Over the last decade there has been an evolving field of co-design with the aim to facilitate an exchange between design teams, and those for whom the...

The in-between: an experimental venture into the position of the designer

Bas Raijmakers, 24-06-2015
Increasing interdisciplinary collaborations between art, design and science, draw attention to the need of elucidating the position of the designer. S...