Evert Ypma

Over the past 30 years, Evert Ypma has been active across a wide range of design disciplines. He has contributed to numerous strategic developments within various social and organisational contexts. He understands design beyond its purely economic and functional dimension, as a fundamentally human endeavour: design as a social, civic and intellectual practice giving form to the material and immaterial world around us.

He dedicated to conceptual strategy and management, design research, and education. Through his practice, Unbound Trajectories – Office for Agency: research, strategy and transdisciplinary design, he advises public and private organisations on design-led strategies as a driver of transformation and development.
His initiative, Imagining Science operates as a design research, consultancy, and creative laboratory. It develops strategic and creative projects at the intersection of design, art, and science.

Evert Ypma has served as curator, programme leader, and senior lecturer across a range of design research and higher education programmes at Swiss and international art and design schools and universities.

Evert Ypma is based in Zurich, Switzerland.

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