Position PhD-student
Irène Curie Fellowship No
Department(s) Industrial Design
FTE 1,0
Date off 04/08/2024
Reference number V51.7592
We invite applications for a fully-funded 4-year doctoral position on hands-on exploration of research through making and design archives.
This PhD aims to advance strategies for generating knowledge through design and sample making practices. The aim is to explore lively ways of engaging with sample collections and their documentation as collaborators, keeping them actionable and open to revisit and reinterpretation. As such, the focus of the work is on the design artifacts made along the process as a source of knowledge.
This is informed by notions from feminist technoscience, particularly processes of becoming with1 and diffraction2, and more-than-human thinking that promote relationality and multiplicity in design practice3. In practice, this work will be conducted through engagement with digital craftsmanship, taking a first person perspective to create situated and detailed understandings of relations between machines, material, people and samples. The Wearable Senses Lab will be the main site for making and researching, but the project will also seek to collaborate with other labs and design collections.
As outcomes, this PhD candidate will make both methodological and material contributions to the fields of HCI and design research through innovative and emerging techniques (by making new samples and artifacts) as well as with strategies and insights on designerly practice related to documentation and archiving systems devised to support designers in revisiting and cross sharing their work.
This work is situated at the intersection of digital craftsmanship, explorative making and feminist theory. Candidates should have a master’s degree in a related area and demonstrable skill and interest in research through design.
Ideally, you have the following qualifications:
A meaningful job in a dynamic and ambitious university, in an interdisciplinary setting and within an international network. You will work on a beautiful, green campus within walking distance of the central train station. In addition, we offer you:
About us
Eindhoven University of Technology is an internationally top-ranking university in the Netherlands that combines scientific curiosity with a hands-on attitude. Our spirit of collaboration translates into an open culture and a top-five position in collaborating with advanced industries. Fundamental knowledge enables us to design solutions for the highly complex problems of today and tomorrow.
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Information
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Please contact Bruna Goveia da Rocha, b.goveia.da.rocha@tue.nl.
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Application
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We look forward to receiving your application and will screen it as soon as possible. The vacancy will remain open until the position is filled.
1 Donna Haraway. 2016. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press.
2 Karen Barad. 2007. Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Duke University Press.
3 Ron Wakkary. 2021. Things We Could Design: For More Than Human-Centered Worlds. MIT Press, Cambridge.
We are an internationally top-ranking university in the Netherlands that combines scientific curiosity with a hands-on attitude.
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