A Chronology, main points
B 2000-ongoing: Director, Doors of Perception
C 1993-2000: Director, Netherlands Design Institute
D 1985-1992: Director Design Analysis International,
and Director of Research, Royal College of Art
1951 Born Newcastle Upon Tyne
1951-1969 Educated in Newcastle and Marlborough
1970-1974 University of Kent at Canterbury (Philosophy)
1974-1975 Centre for Journalism Studies, (Cardiff)
1975-1978 Granada Publishing
(Commissioning Editor Architecture)
1979-1980 New South Wales University Press, Sydney
(Senior Editor)
1980-1985 Editor, Design, London
1985-1986 Modern Culture Editor, Harpers & Queen
Design Correspondent, The Guardian
Design Correspondent, The Spectator
Correspondent, The Late Show (BBC)
1985 – 1992 Managing Director, Design Analysis International
Limited (London and Tokyo)
1989-1992 Director of Research, Royal College of Art (London)
1993-1999 Director, Netherlands Design Institute
(Amsterdam)
2000-2006
Steering Committee, Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy
Scientific Committee, Interactive Institute (Sweden)
Expert Advisor, Hong Kong Design Task Force
European Commission Expert (Information Society Technologies)
Coordinating Group, Convivio (EU network for social computing)
Advisor, High Speed Train Network, (on 'quality time')
Member Virtual Platform (The Netherlands)
Board of Advisors, Form Magazine, Germany
Associate, The Young Foundation, London
2007-ongoing:
Director, Doors of Perception (Amsterdam)
Programme Director, Designs of the time (Dott 07), UK
Commissioner, St. Etienne Design Biennial 2008, FR
2000- : DIRECTOR, DOORS OF PERCEPTION
Interaction Design Institute Ivrea
I was a member of start-up team (and of the Steering Committee until the end of 2003) that established this new research institute in Italy.
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Hong Kong Design Task Force
I was the expert advisor to the Hong Kong Design Task Force (chair: Victor Lo) which developed a new innovation and research policy for the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
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Design and Innovation Research Centre (DIEC)
Doors was in a consortium, Spirit of Creation, that developed the specification and blueprint of a new institution to be based in Newcastle in the North-East of England.
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Convivio: a new vision for "social computing" in Europe
Doors was responsible for vision building in Convivio – an EU network for social computing.
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Virtual Platform
Doors of Perceotion served until 2006 as a member of this advisory group to Dutch government on new media cultural policy.
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Quality time at high speed? (May 2004)
What would it mean to design for fast and slow speeds? Workshop for High Speed Network Platform, an association of 15 European regions, and Urban Unlimited, a planning firm.
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Design and local knowledge (May 2004)
A service design project in response to the question: when traditional industries disappear from a locality, what is to take their place?
Amsterdam Medical Centre (AMC)
I was a member until the end of 2004 of a four person think-tank developing concepts for its Director of a next-generation national childrens hospital
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Creative Communities (Emude)
I was the advisor to a European consortium led by Ezio Manzini building a network of project observatories to track examples of social innovation using ICTs.
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In Scotland, a design clinic for entrepreneurs
Design scenario workshops for The Highlands and Islands Development Board, in Scotland.
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Schiphol Airport: “Air-To-Farm”
Service design workshops for the Board of Schiphol Airport, with Urban Unlimited.
For 1000 professors – life in the learning economy
How will we learn when knowledge changes so fast? Doors of Perception organised a three-day conference with Caroline Nevejan and Mediamatic.
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Director, Netherlands Design Institute 1993-2000
Highlights
1999
Presence – European project on elderly and internet
Maypole - European project on social computing
Trespassers - publication on design scenarios for sustainability
Wisselstroom 2 - design scenarios for transport intersections
Kust op de Kaart - website & knowledge map of coastal projects
If/Then - publication of "yearbook of the near future"
1998
Doors of Perception 5 - "play"
O2 Website - for eco-designers worldwide
Lightness – book + lectures
Young Designers and Industry 18 European companies + scenarios
From Practice To Policy - new media conference with Virtual Platform
1997
Design In The Knowledge Economy - seminar series
The Flat Space 2 - screen design futures
European Design Industry Summit
European Design Prize
Winners! - book published
Wisseltroom - design scenarios for the future of mobility
Eternally Yours – conference and book on long-life products
1996
World Internet Expo: Dutch Pavilion
Doors of Perception 4 - "Speed"
Legible City - conference on cities and information
Things That Think : design/business workshops on smart materials
Doors of Perception 4 - 'Speed'
1995
Doors of Perception 3- "Info-Eco"
The Flat Space - exhibition and CDRom of design for electronic screens
The Prototype- workshop series
From Dada To Data, conference, with Virtual Platform & Council of Europe
1994
European Community Design Prize (with EU)
European Design Industry Summit (with EU)
Design Across Europe - report on the European design industry
Toshio Iwai: Media Artist - exhibition for opening of Institute's building
Action-Reaction - exhibition in Japan
Doors of Perception 2 "Home"
Smart Matter - smart materials seminar, with Stedelijk Museum
1993
Tomorrow's Literacies - lectures and exhibition at Frankfurt Book Fair
Eternally Yours - conference and book on product endurance
The New Old report and conference (with UK DesignAge Network)
Materials of Invention: seminar series and book
The Cultural Economy Of The Applied Arts - report
Design And The Culture Industries - international professional meeting
Doors of Perception 1: plus DoP CDRom
1985-1992 Director Design Analysis International
1988-1992 Director of Research, Royal College of Art
Asahi Shimbun (Tokyo) 1987
International symposium on science, innovation and design, with Itsuo Sakane.
Axis Gallery (Tokyo) 1987
An exhibition of 'live prototypes', called Leading Edge, in which 40 designers created prototypes with support from manufacturers. Shown in Tokyo and Osaka .
European Commission (Paris) 1989
Interactivity and Environments (Paris and Inverness) 1989 Centre Europeenne de Technoculture international conferences, with University of Paris VIII
Centre Pompidou, Paris 1989
Image and Object - Nouveau Design de Londres featured in the Centre Pompidou exhibition and catalogue series 'The Avant Gardes of Europe'. With Japan Airlines.
Alfred Dunhill Limited London and Klondike 1989
The Englishman's Companion Exhibition for Dunhill on its 80th anniversary; curated by Jonathan Glancey and designed by Nigel Coates
British Medical Association, London 1989
Mirror of Medicine Exhibition for the 150th anniversary the British Medical Journal; curator Peter Dormer
British Broadcasting Corporation 1990
Research and commentator on the BBC Design Awards programmes in 1990, 1992.
Architectural Association, Brussels and London 1992
T-Zone Exhibition of Japanese architecture and video, with Riiche Miyake, also at the Tramway Gallery in Glasgow.
Mitsui, Tokyo 1991
Crafts In Architecture A series of exhibitions for architects on such topics as hand-made paper, and textiles. Produced with Peter Dormer
Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Vienna, Leipsig, Turin, Brussels) 1992
The Inventive Spirit, a touring art, technology and design exhibition, was a Brussels centrepiece during Britain's six-month EC Presidency. Peter Dormer curated.
Victoria and Albert Museum London 1992
Sovereign Research and procurement (in ten months, from start to opening) of the national exhibition at the to commemorate The Queen's 40th anniversary as sovereign. Designed by Pentagram.