Professor Kees Dorst trained as an industrial design engineer at Delft University of Technology.  He has worked as a product designer for various design firms and, as a researcher, he has studied the ways in which designers work.  In the topic of design thinking, he has published numerous articles and five books – most recently Design Expertise (2009), with Bryan Lawson.  He is currently working on a book for MIT Press on “Frame Creation, a Design-based Methodology for Driving Innovation”.

Kees is passionate about designing and understanding the workings of design. His research focuses on creating new understandings in the area between design, philosophy and the business sciences.