Assistant professor design futures

Assistant professor design futures
Assistant professor design futures

Published	Deadline	Location
today	31 Oct	Enschede

Job description
The challenge
Designers and engineers at the Faculty of Engineering Technology of the University of Twente envision a world in which technological innovations are developed with one single purpose: to serve humanity. A world in which technology, design and engineering drive change in ways that benefit society, people and our planet. Long term effects for human wellbeing and working on societal challenges steer our work.
We are looking for a versatile academic at the assistant professor level who can independently develop and advance a research line that will support the future of the field and who is an inspirational teacher in the industrial design engineering program.
In this position you will set out research lines on design futures. The research lines deal with enabling societal stakeholders to reflect and understand a societal challenge and shape responsible technology and human-technology relations. To this end, design futures approaches and methods help to define and explore potential futures in order to support responsible societal transformation. Focus will be on the further development and validation of approaches for future exploration. Making potential futures tangible for reflection is an important focus of the research lines. In other words, the research lines value tangible scenarios, prototypes, visualizations and boundary objects as fundamental devices to enable future exploration and socio-technical reflection with society.
The person fulfilling this assistant professor position will have the opportunity to work with a PhD candidate on a fully funded position.
We invite inspiring, enthusiastic, innovative and entrepreneurial candidates to apply for this position. You are expected to contribute to and take responsibility for research and teaching development in the following ways:

• You work as an independent researcher who can identify academic questions related to design futures, collaborative sense-making and reflection, and making potential futures tangible in multi-stakeholder settings.
• You bridge between academic research results and practice of industrial design engineering, design research, systemic design and/or socio-technical design for transitions.
• You develop transdisciplinary partnerships with industry, policy-making institutions and civic society to co-tackle societal challenges.
• You have a good track record of publishing research results in high quality international refereed journals and conferences (e.g., Design Issues, Shi-Ji, Design Studies, DRS Conference, Futures, etc…)
• You can build relevant and necessary networks to attract external funding (national science foundation, EU, government and industry)
• You have a consistent record in teaching and in development of new courses in the area of industrial design engineering, design futures, transdisciplinary design, systemic design or social design.

Specifications

• max. 40 hours per week
• €3974—€6181 per month
• Enschede View on Google Maps

University of Twente (UT)

Requirements

• You hold a PhD in design research, industrial design (engineering), interaction design, human computer interaction, STS (science, technology and society) studies or another field relevant to the position;
• You are an expert design researcher who can adopt and develop situated research and design methods;
• You are a passionate academic and experienced teacher in higher education or striving to become so;
• You are able to build great relationships with co-workers and practice and operate at the intersection of disciplines;
• You have good mentoring skills to supervise BSc, Msc, PDEng and PhD students;
• You have good communication skills and an excellent command of English

Conditions of employment

• We offer an excellent and stimulating scientific environment on an attractive and green campus with lots of facilities for sports and leisure. The university provides a dynamic ecosystem with enthusiastic colleagues in which internationalization is an important part of the strategic agenda.
• A fulltime position for 1 year, with the prospect of a permanent position after a positive evaluation;
• A gross salary between € 3.974,- and € 6.181,- per month, depending on experience and qualifications. The salary is in accordance with Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities;
• A holiday allowance of 8% of the gross annual salary and a year-end bonus of 8.3% and a solid pension scheme;
• Professional and personal development programs;
• A high degree of responsibility and independence, while collaborating with close colleagues, researchers and other university staff is strongly encouraged.

Additional information
You can submit your application (including CV, list of publications, and names of potential references) before November 1st, 2022.As a part of the motivation letter, the applicant should elaborate on research vision and detail the ambitions to develop a design futures research topic within the Human Centred Design Group in the Faculty of Engineering Technology. We request candidates to outline a pedagogical vision statement and articulate the connections with the research line to be developed and the educational programs of the Faculty.
First interviews will take place om Friday November 11th, 2022.
For additional information regarding this position, please contact Prof.dr.ir. Mascha van der Voort, m.c.vandervoort@utwente.nl or +31534892541.
Women are explicitly asked to apply for this position. This is part of the University of Twente’s strategy to increase the proportion of women among its faculty and to create a working environment that is diverse and inclusive and supportive of excellence in research and teaching.
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