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Maaike Roozenburg (born Delft 1979) serves as Head of the Master Industrial Design department at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK) since 2017, where she leads the Master of Industrial Design program officially launched in September 2017. This program represents the oldest industrial design program in the Netherlands, established in 1950, and was elevated to Master's level under her leadership.
Her educational background includes two years of art history studies at Utrecht University before transferring to DesignLab at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Roozenburg's professional philosophy emphasizes the critical examination of technology and industrial systems within design education, bridging the gap between technical design education and artistic design education.
- Research Focus: Her work centers on the management and restoration of heritage, operating at the intersection of design, conservation, and new technologies
- Design Philosophy: Believes designers must take a stand on sustainability issues and critically question production systems
- Educational Approach: Teaches students to engage with social debates and understand production processes from both technical and meaningful perspectives
Roozenburg leads significant collaborative projects that explore how heritage objects can be reimagined for contemporary use through advanced technologies. Her work challenges traditional museum practices by making historical objects functional again while preserving their cultural significance. She advocates for design that creates meaningful, aesthetic, and sustainable products with positive societal impact, emphasizing that tangible design manifestations have greater expressive power than purely analytical approaches.
Her research methodology embraces artistic freedom, allowing intuitive and creative approaches to questions about the meaning and value of production techniques beyond mere economic considerations. Roozenburg believes interdisciplinary collaboration between scientific, technical, and artistic disciplines yields more meaningful results than isolated work.
