Dr Bert Bongers
Associate Profesor
Dr Bert Bongers leads the Interactivation Studio in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building to support the design and research of interactivating objects and spaces.
Bert has a mixed background in technology, human sciences and the arts, developed through education as well as practice. In his PhD thesis he combined insights and experiences gained from musical instrument design, interactive architecture, video performances and interface development for multimedia systems to establish frameworks and an ecological approach for interaction between people and technology.
He has set up media labs in Amsterdam, Barcelona and Maastricht and lectured on interaction at various universities and schools. He has taught Masters programs such as Industrial Design, Cognitive Systems, Interactive Media and User-System Interaction at Eindhoven, Barcelona and Delft.
His audiovisual installations and performances have been presented at the Powerhouse Museum, DAB Lab gallery and Smart Light Sydney, Metronom Gallery and the Mercat de les Flores In Barcelona, and STEIM and other venues in Amsterdam.