Thomas Binder

Thomas Binder is a researcher and educator engaging open design collaborations and participatory design in the context of social innovation and sustainable transitions. His research includes contributions to methods and tools for experimental desin research and open innovation processes with a particular emphasis on codesign and design anthropology. Through design research addressing everyday innovation within elderly care and citizen involvement in green transitions Thomas Binder has explored arenas evolving in the borderlands between commercial, public and civic involvement, and how collaborative design experiments in these arenas may nurture and amplify hybrid configurations of agency with a potential for a significant societal impact. He has been editing and authoring several books such as (Re-) searching the Digital Bauhaus’ (Springer 2008), Rehearsing the Future (Danish Design School Press, 2010), Design Research through Practice (Morgan Kaufman, 2011), Design Things (MIT press, 2011) and Design Anthropological Futures (Bloomsbury, 2016). He has been chairing the Participatory Design Conference in 2002, the Nordic Design Research Conference in 2005 and the Design Anthropological Futures Conference in 2015.