A good 5 years of Contextmapping May 12, 2009

On May 13, ID-StudioLab organizes a symposium on user involvement. Intended audience are design practitioners, students, and researchers.

About five years ago, ID-StudioLab started the contextmapping research. In these past five years, four PhD students have explored various elements in the procedure. Several hundred students at TU Delft have learnt its principles, as did many design students and practitioners in workshops in the Netherlands, Europe, and Asia. Several dozens of students have explored, varied, modified, and reflected on the techniques, their possibilities and limitations.

In May 2009, the first 'contextmapping' PhD thesis will be defended. On this occasion, we take the opportunity to reflect on the new techniques for involving users in the fuzzy front end of product design. What was learnt, what are the opportunities and barriers in industrial practice, and what do we think should the next developments be?

Official Website: http://studiolab.io.tudelft.nl/contextmapping/symposium