Evert Ypma
Strategy, Innovation Processes, and Organisational Transformation
Design Politics and Transdisciplinary Designs
Research, Education, and Coaching
OOver the past 30 years, Evert Ypma has been active across a wide range of design disciplines and cultures. He has contributed to numerous strategic developments within diverse social and organisational contexts. He understands design as a fundamentally human endeavour: the shaping of realities through the construction of knowledge and narratives, the creation of shared meaning and experience, and the production of both material and immaterial artefacts.
Evert Ypma has consistently advocated for an understanding of design that extends beyond its purely economic dimension, framing it instead as a deeply social, cultural, and political practice.
He works as a conceptual strategist, design researcher, and educator. 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. As a hybrid platform, it explores the communicative, organisational, and spatial potential of collaborations between scientific inquiry and imagination, positioning these as a contemporary transdisciplinary practice.
In the context of research and education, Evert Ypma has served as curator, programme leader, lecturer, and advisor across a range of design research and BA/MA/postgraduate and doctoral programmes at Swiss and international art and design schools and universities.
Evert Ypma is based in Zurich, Switzerland.
A new website will be launched soon.
© 2026 Evert Ypma
