Mieke Van Der Bijl-Brouwer

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Mieke van der Bijl-Brouwer is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at TU Delft and co-founder of its Systemic Design Lab. Her research interests span the fields of human-centred & systemic design, and transdisciplinary innovation for complex societal challenges. She holds a Master of Science in Industrial Design Engineering from Delft University of Technology, and a PhD in User-Centred Design from the University of Twente, the Netherlands.

Mieke is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at TU Delft. She has an interest in methods and practice to tackle complex societal challenges and is expert in practices that bridge disciplines including transdisciplinary learning and collaboration, systems thinking, and design framing practices. She applies her research across a variety of societal domains including wellbeing, education, work, and social justice. Mieke travelled different disciplinary domains, starting with a PhD in human-centred design (University of Twente, cum laude), research and design in public sector innovation, and research and education in transdisciplinarity (both University of Technology Sydney). In 2019 she moved back to the Netherlands to work at TU Delft where she co-founded the Systemic Design Lab.