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Bregje F. van Eekelen is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology, specializing in Smart Cities within Design, Culture, and Society. She holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Prior to her current role, van Eekelen was affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Social Science in Princeton and served as a senior researcher in the History of Social and Human Sciences at Erasmus University. Her academic work intersects anthropology and history, focusing on how design interacts with social and cultural contexts. She aims to understand dynamic relationships between design, its artifacts, practices, and the cultural, political, and economic realms in which they exist. Van Eekelen's research employs both historical and anthropological methods to examine concepts like creativity and failure within the context of design. Among her notable projects is the VENI project "Brainstorms: Cultural History Undisciplined Thought," which explores the evolution of the concept of creativity in military industrial settings. Additionally, she is a founding member of the Erasmus Institute for Public Knowledge, which facilitates research on public issues, and she contributes to various interdisciplinary groups. Her recent publications include works in prominent journals such as Cultural Economy and Public Culture.
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