Evert Ypma
Strategy advice and design politics
Innovation and transformation processes
Transdisciplinary design
Research, education and coaching
Over 30 years, Evert Ypma has been active accross various design disciplines and design cultures. He contributed to numerous strategic developments in different social and organisational contexts. He understands design as the human aspiration to shape his artifical world through the construction of knowledge, shared meaning and experiences as well as material and intangible artefacts. Evert Ypma has been an abiding advocate to comprehend design, beyond its pure economics, as a deeply social, cultural and political practice.
Evert Ypma works as conceptual strategist, design researcher, and educator. With his practice, Unbound Trajectories – Office for Agency: research, strategy and transdisciplinary design, he advises private and public organizations and businesses on design-led strategies as driving capacity for transformation and development.
His initiative, Imagining Science functions as a design research, consultancy and creative lab that explores and develops strategic and creative concepts and projects at the nexus of design, art and science. Operating as a hybrid entity, the lab focuses on the communicative, organizational and spatial potentials of the collaborations between science and imagination as a contemporary transdisciplinary practice, uniting qualities of both.
In the context of research and education, Evert Ypma has been a curator, program leader, lecturer and advisor of various design research and BA/MA/postgraduate and graduate school/PhD programs at Swiss and international art and design schools and universities.
Evert Ypma is based in Zurich, Switzerland.
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